The conversation your menopause training left out
Most women with sexual symptoms in midlife never raise them. Most clinicians never ask. These programmes, notes and resources help close that gap, for doctors, nurses, allied health and support professionals.
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After the Prescription
Continuing education for clinicians and telehealth teams on the conversation about desire and intimacy their menopause training did not cover. Six units, built to the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health process of care, delivered beside a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner.
EnquireMidlife Sexual Health for Allied and Support Professions
A teaching unit for nursing, counselling, psychology, social work and disability support programmes. Available as a guest lecture, an intensive, or a licensed unit.
EnquireMenopause at Work
The employer programme: a launch keynote, an employee pathway, manager workshops and human resources templates. Includes the module other programmes leave out: desire, pain and intimacy after treatment.
See the programmeNew evidence, and the words to use
Published every two months. Research notes summarise new studies that change how we talk about sex and menopause. Case notes work through situations clinicians meet in practice.
Testosterone after breast cancer, desire after retirement, and the menopause data gap
Four studies from the journal Menopause, summarised with what they mean for practice.
Read the research notesShe came in for hot flushes
Hot flushes are controlled. Sex hurts. She mentions it as she stands to leave.
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Send it in, without identifying details. Selected cases become case notes.
Submit a caseResources to use and share
Practitioner reading list
The guidelines, position statements and studies behind the work, in one list.
Download the reading listMenopause topics
Plain language guides on perimenopause, symptoms, sexual health, hormone therapy and more. Share them freely.
Open menopause topicsTalking with your doctor
A free guide that helps women raise the symptoms they find hardest to name.
Download the guideEducation, not treatment
Hope is a sexual health educator and the founder of the School of Sexual Wellness. She is not a medical practitioner. Clinical content is drawn from published guidelines and peer reviewed studies, cited in full. The relational and body based work draws on the HOPE Method, the framework behind her programmes and practitioner training.
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