Proposals for therapeutic procedures for psychologists andpsychotherapists in female sexual pain disorders

Female sexual pain disorders significantly decrease the quality of women’s life. They negatively impact on their selfesteemand their sense of femininity. Diagnosing and helping female patients is stymied since sexuality and sexualsatisfaction tends to be taboo topics in public debate. The goal of the present article is to present the standard of carefor psychologists and psychotherapists who work with women struggling with sexual pain disorders. The suggestedstandard of care involves the following steps: outlining the structure of an interview, recommending diagnostic tools,and therapeutic propositions. The author presents the method which she has used and modified since 2014 forthe needs of a therapy for women affected by vulvodynia, whose most frequent cause is dyspareunia. The articlepresents diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations in the context of the theory and available research results.