Who I Help
Most women don't arrive in my office carrying a diagnosis. They arrive carrying a story — months, sometimes years, of knowing something has changed and being told, in a dozen quiet ways, that it was nothing.
You've already read the part where I tell you your instinct was right. So let's not linger there.
Let's talk about how I can help.
The same hands that operate also hold yours.
Precision for the procedure.
Presence for the woman.
Areas of Expertise
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For the woman told this is simply her age.
Hot flashes, sleep that unravels at two in the morning, brain fog, mood, bone health, intimacy that quietly changed — these are not a personality, and they are not a verdict. They are physiology, and physiology can be understood.
I treat midlife as the last best window, not the beginning of decline — and I hold the certification to back that conviction with evidence rather than folklore.
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For the woman who has quietly reorganized her life around her body.
Leaking, urgency, prolapse, recurrent infections, pain, the map of every nearby restroom — so many women are told this is the ordinary cost of having children or growing older, and simply endure it.
I don't consider it ordinary, and I don't consider it something to wait out. As a fellowship-trained specialist, I look for the mechanism, not just the symptom — because a body that is understood can usually be helped.
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For the woman who has been passed between specialties.
Urogynecology exists precisely because the bladder, the pelvic floor, and a woman's reproductive health were never meant to be treated as strangers to one another. When care is fragmented, the woman in the middle is the one who falls through the seams.
Double board certification means these conversations happen on the same side of the examination table, in one room, with one physician who sees how the pieces connect.
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For the woman weighing a decision she never wanted to face.
Advanced pelvic reconstruction, robotic and minimally invasive procedures, complex surgical care — when surgery is the right answer, it should be done with real skill and a genuine respect for how you recover and return to your life.
I believe surgery should be the smallest thing that solves the problem, chosen carefully and never by default.
An added area of expertise
Extensive experience caring for patients who seek bloodless medical and surgical treatment — including members of the Jehovah's Witness community and others who prefer blood-conservation approaches whenever it is medically appropriate.
The whole woman is rarely found in a single lab value, diagnosis, or symptom.
Dismissal is not the deepest wound.
The deepest wound is having what you know questioned until you begin questioning it yourself.
I believe you.
— Dr. Felicia L. Rhaney
Many women can't say whether what they're carrying belongs under menopause, pelvic floor disorders, urogynecology, or surgery — and they shouldn't have to know that before asking for help. Sorting it out together is exactly why this exists.
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