GynoGirl TV

Hosted by Dr. Sameena Rahman

Board-certified gynecologist and expert in menopause and sexual medicine, Dr. Sameena Rahman (aka Gynogirl) shares candid, evidence-based conversations on all things women’s health—with a focus on sexual medicine, midlife, and menopause. New episodes typically drop on Fridays!

Trauma, Lost Desire, and ART: A Breakthrough Therapy with Brooke Bralove
Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP

Trauma, Lost Desire, and ART: A Breakthrough Therapy with Brooke Bralove

Trauma doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it shows up as six years of pelvic pain with no identifiable cause, a complete loss of desire, or an inability to tolerate intimacy. Psychotherapist and sex therapist Brooke Bralove joins Dr. Rahman to explain Accelerated Resolution Therapy — a treatment that uses rapid eye movement to process trauma in as few as one to five sessions — and why grieving the loss of spontaneous desire is a necessary step before you can rebuild intimacy in a long-term relationship.

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Teaching Anatomical Language, AI, Private Equity, and Why Three OB-GYNs Stopped Delivering Babies
Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP

Teaching Anatomical Language, AI, Private Equity, and Why Three OB-GYNs Stopped Delivering Babies

Three OB-GYNs who trained in residency not to examine the clitoris now run gynecology-only practices built around the conditions everyone else misses. Dr. Meredith McClure and Dr. Ashley Fuller of the Labialogic podcast join Dr. Rahman to talk lichen sclerosus, why certain BV DNA tests produce false positives, why one-dose Monistat can cause severe vulvar inflammation, and how teaching patients to say "vulva" instead of "vagina" is an actual clinical intervention.

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Why Your Endometriosis Symptoms Didn't Go Away After Surgery | Jandra Mueller
Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, IF, MSCP

Why Your Endometriosis Symptoms Didn't Go Away After Surgery | Jandra Mueller

Jandra Mueller is a pelvic floor physical therapist in San Diego and the incoming educational chair for ISSWSH — and she spent years getting her own endometriosis diagnosed, even with direct access to specialists. She and Dr. Rahman break down the pelvic pentad, why fibrotic endometriosis survives excision surgery, what mast cells have to do with nerve proliferation, and the real difference between a surgeon who does excision and one who actually specializes in endo.

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