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Overcoming Sexual Pain Philadelphia

Overcoming Sexual Pain Support Group: Painful sex can be caused by many different conditions including vulvodynia, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and vaginal infections. Meet other women who struggle and cope with Painful Sex: This group will help both single women & women in long term relationships to:

  • Learn how to cope with your medical condition and its effect on your sex life.
  • Develop the essential sexual skills that will enhance the quality of your sex life
  • Determine your own cultural, religious, and spiritual views of female sexuality
  • Create and implement a sexy environment in the bedroom
  • Identify your sexual fantasies and sexual turn-ons and discover techniques for sharing them with a lover
  • Gain information about pelvic floor relaxation exercises to practice at home with or with a partner
  • Reduce fear of specific sexual pain that prevents you from enjoying sexual intimacy
  • Develop skills to satisfy a partner’s sexual needs and desires while creating a pleasurable environment for yourself
  • Replace anxiety-producing cognitions with reality based self-affirming ideas and minimize distress in your sexual interactions both with self and others
  • Implement successful dating strategies for women who cope with sexual pain
  • Learn how to talk to your long term-partner or a new partner about your medical condition
  • Gain support and understanding from other women who deal with painful sex

Call now to sign up

(267) 324 – 9564

 

Overcoming Sexual Pain Support Groups, Therapy Groups, Enrichment Classes, Couples Workshops in Center City Philadelphia

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Alex" Caroline Robboy,

“Alex” Caroline Robboy, CAS, MSW, ACSW, AAMFT, CSTS, LCSW is the founder and executive director of the Center for Growth Inc / Sex Therapy in Philadelphia, a counseling organization that has an office in Ocean City, New Jersey, Richmond Virginia, Alphretta Georgia and 2 offices in Center City, Philadelphia PA.   In her space time she launched the directory sextherapy.com as a resource tool for professionals dedicated to improving peoples sexual health.  Alex has 25+ years of clinical experience working with adults and children. Specifically, she works with people struggling with compulsion problems, personality disorders, neurodiversity (dyslexia, tourettes, sensory issues, adhd, and high functioning autism) anxiety, depression, postpartum depression, shame, trauma, low self-esteem, grief, relationship issues, sexual function & dysfunction, blended families and parenting concerns. Currently, she provides individual, couples, family therapy and group therapy. Lastly, she offers supervision to both staff and therapists outside of this agency seeking their LCSW or AASECT Certification in sex therapy.  Lastly, thru the Philadelphia International Women’s Project, she led a two year sex therapy group for West African women who experienced Female Genital Cutting as well as a sex therapy group for Sudanese women who experienced Female Genital Cutting. 

Ms. Robboy earned three graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania; Masters in Social Work, Post-Masters in Certificate Marriage and Family Therapy with a Specialization in Sex Therapy and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Human Sexuality Education (otherwise known as ABD) as well as a Certificate in Home and School Social Work. Additionally, Ms. Robboy is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor of Sex Therapy and an ABS Certified Sexologist. Lastly, she is a Certified Imago Therapist. She is currently pursuing certification in CBIT.