Northwestern medicine comprehensive Program for Sexual Medicine
Forty percent of women have a physical, medical, hormonal or emotional issue significant enough to interfere with intercourse or other sexual activity.
This is a topic that is rarely broached in the doctor’s office. Even when it is discussed, many times women are not offered solutions to their pain, lack of interest, or lack of response.
While cultural factors, religious beliefs, social issues, general health, and age all influence the frequency and ability to have sexual activity, medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease or neurologic problems are often the precipitating problem or complicate an existing problem.
If you have a physical, hormonal, or medical condition that has sabotaged your sex life, The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine is here to help.
We have gathered the top experts in sexual health, including physicians, Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, certified sex psychotherapists, pelvic floor physical therapists, and more to collaborate with other specialists in order to address your comprehensive sexual health needs.
Whether you are heterosexual, homosexual, self-sexual or just wanting to be sexual, our team will evaluate your needs and individualize a program to help get you back to peak sexual health and pleasure.
This is a topic that is rarely broached in the doctor’s office. Even when it is discussed, many times women are not offered solutions to their pain, lack of interest, or lack of response.
While cultural factors, religious beliefs, social issues, general health, and age all influence the frequency and ability to have sexual activity, medical conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease or neurologic problems are often the precipitating problem or complicate an existing problem.
If you have a physical, hormonal, or medical condition that has sabotaged your sex life, The Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine is here to help.
We have gathered the top experts in sexual health, including physicians, Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, certified sex psychotherapists, pelvic floor physical therapists, and more to collaborate with other specialists in order to address your comprehensive sexual health needs.
Whether you are heterosexual, homosexual, self-sexual or just wanting to be sexual, our team will evaluate your needs and individualize a program to help get you back to peak sexual health and pleasure.
Conditions We Treat
If your condition or procedure is not listed, please contact us and we will let you know if an appointment or referral is appropriate.
Conditions and procedures include (but not limited to) the following:
Conditions and procedures include (but not limited to) the following:
- Anorgasmia
- CO2 Laser Treatments (vaginal dryness). Please visit nmvaginalhealth.nm.org for information regarding vaginal health and CO2 laser treatments for vaginal dryness and sexual pain (now available).
- Cancer-related sexual problems (chemotherapy, surgery, radiation)
- Contraception induced sexual pain or loss of libido
- Decreased Libido
- Dyspareunia (painful intercourse)
- Menopause. Visit menopause.nm.org for additional information.
- Hereditary genetic mutations (BRCA/Lynch)
- Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
- Impaired Arousal
- Inability to orgasm
- Labioplasty (labial shortening)
- Lichen sclerosis
- Mona Lisa Touch Laser Treatments: Please visit nmvaginalhealth.nm.org for information regarding vaginal health and CO2 laser treatments for vaginal dryness and sexual pain (now available)
- Orgasmic disorders
- Painful intercourse
- Pelvic pain during intercourse
- Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome
- Post hysterectomy/ovary removal
- Pudendal neuralgia
- Sexual dysfunction
- Vaginal atrophy (dryness)
- Vaginismus
- Vulvar Disorders
- Vulvar Graft vs Host Disease
- Vulvar Vestibulitis
- Vulvodynia
- Vestibulodynia
- Sexual problems associated with medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, incontinence and neurologic disease.
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Once we have received your request for an appointment a coordinator will contact you to schedule an appointment and send you a questionnaire. This questionnaire must be filled out and returned prior to your first visit so that it may be reviewed by our clinical staff. If you are arriving from out of town, our coordinator can also connect you to the hospital concierge for hotel accommodations.
For more information, please call 312.694.9676 (MYGYNSexualMedicine).
For more information, please call 312.694.9676 (MYGYNSexualMedicine).
Lauren Streicher, MD, is the medical director of the Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and oversees all center clinical, research and educational activities. She is an associate clinical professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology; and a member of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America, Inc., The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health, and The Scientific Network on Female Sexual Health and Cancer. She is also a Certified Menopause Practitioner of The North American Menopause Society.
Dr. Streicher is the author of a comprehensive sexual and hormone health book: Sex Rx: Hormones, Health and Your Best Sex Ever. Dr. Streicher has also published, The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy, (2004 and 2013).
In addition to her role as medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, Dr. Streicher sees patients as part of her Extended Care Program.
Dr. Streicher is the author of a comprehensive sexual and hormone health book: Sex Rx: Hormones, Health and Your Best Sex Ever. Dr. Streicher has also published, The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy, (2004 and 2013).
In addition to her role as medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause, Dr. Streicher sees patients as part of her Extended Care Program.
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