Type Of Business:
Holistic reproductive health care and consulting company
Marketing Area:
International
Expertise:
Integration of her experience in women’s reproductive health with her training in psychology; Human sexuality; Basic counseling; All methods of birth control; Reproductive health education
Major Product/SVS:
Justisse method for fertility management and body literacy; Holistic reproductive health practitioner training program; Psycho-physiological counseling: Integrative medicine model
Hobbies/Sports:
Ballroom dancing
Education Degrees:
Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute (2010); Master of Arts, Counseling Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate Institute (2003); Bachelor of Arts, English, Music and Drama, Athabasca University
Affiliations Awards:
Fertility Awareness Network; Society for Menstrual Cycle Research; C.G. Jung Society; Midwives Alliance of North America
Industry:
Holistic Reproductive Health Care
Date of Distinction:
1/27/2012
What has been the most outstanding thing you have done thus far in your career?:
To still be standing against all the odds.
How would you like to be remembered by your peers?:
She would like to be remembered by her peers as standing for truth, respect and fairness.
If you could solve one problem in the world today, what would it be?:
Misogyny
If you could have lunch with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and why?:
Marie Louise Von Franz
Expanded Biography:
Dr. Matus founded Justisse in 1987 and Justisse Healthworks for Women in 2003. She has worked as a fertility awareness and birth control educator, and a holistic reproductive health practitioner since 1977. She qualified as a lay midwife in 1985. She has been active in the reproductive health freedoms movement since 1977. She has had the privilege most of her professional life of working with and learning from some of Canada's best complementary and alternative medicine physicians.
Ms. Matus has done public speaking on women's health issues and psychological issues. She has had conference papers published as well.
Dr. Matus offers psycho-physiological therapy, drawing upon her training in counseling depth psychology, midwifery, and sexual and reproductive health education. She utilizes Jung's archetypal model of psychoanalysis, as well as other psycho-physiological practices in her work. Her areas of focus include healing through imagination, play and creativity; honoring and healing the psyche-soma connection; addiction recovery; love and partnership; reproductive health and human sexuality; and infertility counseling.
Justisse Healthworks for Women offers holistic reproductive health consultation and care for women. It serves women at all stages of reproductive life, including those who want natural contraception, those who want to conceive, and those that want to learn how to healthfully negotiate perimenopause and menopause. Justisse advocates a naturopathic and preventative medicine approach to health. It supports women in effectively practicing contraception and fertility enhancement through fertility awareness, and helps those who wish to avoid the side effects of contraceptive hormones, devices and surgery. The company trains Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioners (HRHPs) to serve women in the above described ways. HRHPs help women learn the Justisse Method of Fertility Awareness so that they can confidently follow through their choice to gain reproductive health and autonomy.
Number Of Years In Profession:
33
Number Of Years In Current Position:
10
What Does He/She Attribute Success To:
She attributes her success to her perseverance and maintaining her strong, ethical stance on putting patient care first, as well as to listening to the voice of the unconscious with as much attention as to the voice of reason.
Why did you become involved in your profession or industry?:
She became involved in her profession because of a challenging experience with hormonal contraception in her late teens, after which she became involved in a psycho-physiological and holistic approach to reproductive and mental health care. She became committed to educating women on how they can effectively and confidently use fertility awareness and gain body literacy, for personal empowerment and health. Her work with women as a midwife lead her into her interest in depth psychology.
Extended Bio Profile:
Dr. Matus founded Justisse in 1987 and Justisse Healthworks for Women in 2003. She has worked as a fertility awareness and birth control educator, and a holistic reproductive health practitioner since 1977. She qualified as a lay midwife in 1985. She has been active in the reproductive health freedoms movement since 1977. She has had the privilege most of her professional life of working with and learning from some of Canada's best complementary and alternative medicine physicians.
Ms. Matus has done public speaking on women's health issues and psychological issues. She has had conference papers published as well.
Dr. Matus offers psycho-physiological therapy, drawing upon her training in counseling depth psychology, midwifery, and sexual and reproductive health education. She utilizes Jung's archetypal model of psychoanalysis, as well as other psycho-physiological practices in her work. Her areas of focus include healing through imagination, play and creativity; honoring and healing the psyche-soma connection; addiction recovery; love and partnership; reproductive health and human sexuality; and infertility counseling.
Justisse Healthworks for Women offers holistic reproductive health consultation and care for women. It serves women at all stages of reproductive life, including those who want natural contraception, those who want to conceive, and those that want to learn how to healthfully negotiate perimenopause and menopause. Justisse advocates a naturopathic and preventative medicine approach to health. It supports women in effectively practicing contraception and fertility enhancement through fertility awareness, and helps those who wish to avoid the side effects of contraceptive hormones, devices and surgery. The company trains Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioners (HRHPs) to serve women in the above described ways. HRHPs help women learn the Justisse Method of Fertility Awareness so that they can confidently follow through their choice to gain reproductive health and autonomy.
Position Responsibilities and Duties:
Designing and writing programs and curricula for online Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner (HRHP) Training Program; Running a private practice for psycho-physiological health, including depth psychological therapy and holistic reproductive health consultation and care for women
Where Will You Be In 5 Years:
In five years, Dr. Matus will have published a series of books that addresses women's relationship to the Beauty and Blood mysteries.