Brain health, lifestyle medicine, the midlife transition, and the practice of real and authentic life — built by a Vascular Neurologist who is also a Professional Coach in Life and Wellness.
If you have found your way here, you have likely held everyone else’s biology safe — and quietly lost your own. Aleksandra Pikula, MD
The window where vulnerability becomes wisdom.
HER PRISM is the lens through which a woman looks at her own messy middle — refracted through biology and wisdom into colors she could not see before. Through HER Prism is what she finds when she actually looks through.
Structured. Measurable. Applied inside an active medical career. Four phases, each producing a tangible deliverable.
Stress neuroscience, the perimenopausal brain, sleep as medicine.
Whose Values Are You Living?, VIA Character Strengths, PERMA.
Workplace + home environment diagnostics, boundary architecture, daily protocols.
Career Chapter Design, Leadership Identity, Future Self letter.
The 3 a.m. wake-ups. The brain fog during procedures you used to do half-asleep. The hot flashes during presentations. The version of yourself who walks in the door empty.
You don’t want to leave medicine. You want to come back to yourself inside it.
Sleep, nervous system, hormones, nutrition. The base.
What sustains the practice when motivation runs out.
Environment diagnostics, boundaries, daily protocol.
Career, leadership, the next chapter on your terms.
Vascular Neurologist and Women’s Brain Health Expert. Professional Coach in Life and Wellness. Board-certified in four specialties. 110+ peer-reviewed publications in women’s brain health.
Validated instruments at baseline, mid-program, and end. PSQI. Abbreviated MBI. VIA. The HER PRISM Self-Assessment™.
Calibrated to female physiology, perimenopausal neurochemistry, and the careers women actually live.
I help women in medicine feel themselves again — by treating burnout as a real biological event and protecting brain health through the midlife transition, without leaving the work they love.
— Aleksandra Pikula, MD, Founder
Vascular Neurologist and Women’s Brain Health Expert. Physician-Coach for women in medicine. Professional Coach in Life and Wellness. Board-certified in four specialties. 110+ peer-reviewed publications. Founder of HER PRISM™.
The credentials open the door. You are the reason I am here.
Read the founder story →Through HER Prism — long-form essays on women’s brain health, burnout recovery, and what midlife is asking of you.
Read on Substack →Beginning Fall 2026. Founding pricing for the first cohort only. The application is a 15-minute conversation, not a hurdle.
Join the Cohort 1 waitlistOpen to women in medicine anywhere in the world.