The Center for Growth, located in Philadelphia, is offering a group designed to give women who deal with Dyspareunia and Vaginismus an opportunity to learn more about these health conditions and to meet other women who struggle with them. The Center for Growth is staffed by licensed, professional psychotherapists (marriage and family therapists, counseling practitioners, and social workers) who specialize in family therapy, marriage counseling, couples counseling, play therapy, sex therapy, and individual therapy. The staff offers psychological counseling to children, adolescents, and adults who struggle with Anger, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Depression, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Grief, Pregnancy/Postpartum related issues, Sexual problems and relationship problems. Please visit our websites for more information: www.therapyinphiladelphia.com, and www.sextherapyinphiladelphia.com.

Health conditions that cause dyspareunia include vulvodynia, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and vaginial infections.  Women with these conditions often deal with the impact that they have on their health and their intimate lives all by themselves. This group will help women learn to cope with how these conditions affect their intimate lives, relationships, and mental health. You will learn specific skills and techniques as well as connect with other women. It will also help you to learn how to talk about these issues with your partner or a potential significant other. Women who should join include any woman who has experienced painful sexual intercourse from vaginisimus, vulvodynia, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, or any other pain condition. This group is for single women as well as women in long-term relationships.