In this talk we will delve into the details of evidence-based approaches, tips, and tricks to optimizing and enhancing your pleasure and sexual response. By augmenting mental and physical arousal and introducing mindfulness strategies we can help overcome medical and stress-related challenges to our sexual functioning. This talk will help empower you to make the changes needed to help you improve your sex life! All genders welcome.

Speaker's Bio: Dr. Shauna Correia, B. Eng, MDCM, FRCPC, undertook her medical training at McGill University before completing residency in psychiatry at Dalhousie University. She now serves as clinical faculty with the University of British Columbia (UBC) and works as a psychiatrist and sexual medicine specialist. In her main role at the province's tertiary care clinic, the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine (BCCSM), in Vancouver she assesses and treats men, women, individuals and couples referred for a wide variety of sexual difficulties and concerns (including sexual dysfunctions and sexual pain syndromes). She is involved in several research projects involving the optimization of sexual functioning and the role of mindfulness. She is currently serving as the Sexuality Theme Lead in the UBC Faculty of Medicine undergraduate education program. Outside of work Shauna enjoys travelling, hiking, skiing, dancing and spending time with her dog Seiki, a certified therapy dog.

This session is designed to assist women who are wanting to become pregnant. The group will discuss health conditions that impact fertility and how to manage them through medical and lifestyle interventions. Together we will explore how medications, nutrition, physical activity, and mental wellbeing can play a role in increasing chances of conception.

Part II: Lifestyle interventions to improve fertility & increase chances of a healthy pregnancy