Sexual health is one of the most overlooked — and most impactful — dimensions of overall wellbeing. Yet in clinical settings, it's often the last thing discussed, if it's discussed at all. Your patients are experiencing concerns they don't know how to voice. They're embarrassed, unsure if it's "medical enough" to mention, or simply waiting for you to open the door. This webinar gives you the tools to open it.In this practical, evidence-based webinar, you'll learn how to normalize sexual health conversations in your practice, ask the right questions with confidence and sensitivity, and equip your patients with the knowledge they need to take charge of their sexual wellbeing.
What You'll Learn:Opening the Conversation
• Why sexual health is still the most avoided topic in clinical visits — and what it's costing your patients
• How to introduce sexual health screening naturally into routine appointments without awkwardness• The exact language and phrasing that helps patients feel safe, seen, and willing to open up
• How to create a clinical environment where patients feel permission to bring up sexual concerns on their own
• Addressing your own clinical discomfort — because if it feels awkward for you, patients will sense itUnderstanding the Arousal Cycle
• A clear, clinically relevant breakdown of the human arousal cycle — desire, arousal, orgasm, and resolution — in both male and female physiology
• How disruptions at each phase present differently and what they signal diagnostically
• The difference between spontaneous and responsive desire — and why misunderstanding this leads to misdiagnosis
How hormonal shifts across the lifespan (puberty, postpartum, perimenopause, andropause) alter the arousal cycle and what patients need to know
• The role of the nervous system, blood flow, and pelvic floor function in sexual response
Lab Testing & Diagnostics
• Which labs to order when a patient presents with low libido, arousal dysfunction, or pain with intercourse
Speaker: Dr. Diane Mueller, ND, DAOM, LAc
