Herpes Support Group Finder

Filter the national organisations, search platforms and clinician-led options for HSV support — what each covers, what it costs, and where coverage is thin.

Searching for a herpes support group returns a scattered mix: one national organisation, a few therapist listings, a Meetup page that may or may not still be active, and several pages that are really advertising something else.

This is that list, filterable, with every link checked on the date shown.

Why local groups need a checked date

Local groups start, move, change meeting times, and quietly stop — and stale listings do real harm, because someone takes an evening off work for a room that no longer meets.

That is not hypothetical. The page currently ranking first for this search lists a Bay Area group whose site returns a server error today. We list local groups because people searching for their own city need them, but every entry carries the date we last checked it, and we say plainly that you should confirm on the group's own site before travelling.

Every entry, in plain text

The filter above runs in your browser; this is the same list rendered on the page so it is readable without JavaScript, and so search engines can see it. All links checked 2026-08-18.

National organisations

• ASHA — American Sexual Health Association — US national directory of local and online groups. Free to browse. The longest-running US listing; most local groups that still exist are reachable through it.
• SPFPP — Something Positive for Positive People — US and some international. Peer-led community, podcast, virtual meetups. Free. Lived-experience conversation rather than medical framing.
• Herpes Viruses Association (HVA) — United Kingdom. Helpline, information, local contacts. Free helpline. If you searched "herpes association uk", this is it.

Local groups

• Indy HELP — Indianapolis and central Indiana. In-person peer group, free.
• Metro Detroit HELP — Detroit metro, Michigan. In-person peer group, free.
• The Phoenix Association — Toronto and southern Ontario. In-person and social events; free to attend.

Search platforms

• Meetup — HSV-2 topic index — US, by city. Shows last-activity dates, so you can tell whether a group is alive before contacting it.
• Meetup — keyword search — broader search. Coverage is uneven; large metros have active groups, many regions have none.
• Psychology Today — Support Groups — US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia. Clinician-facilitated; usually paid, some sliding scale. Stronger screening, higher cost.

If you searched for your city and found nothing here

That is a real result, not a gap in the search. Herpes support groups are unevenly distributed: large metros often have several, many regions have none. Three things work better than searching city name after city name:

Browse the Meetup topic index by city — it shows last-activity dates, so you can see whether a group is alive before contacting it.

Ask a sexual-health clinic directly. Staff usually know which groups are currently meeting; that information rarely reaches the web.

Consider online instead. For many people it turns out to be preferable anyway: no travel, no chance of meeting someone you know, and a larger pool of people at a similar point after diagnosis.

What we cannot tell you

We have not attended these groups and do not know their current size, tone, or facilitation quality. What we can tell you is what each one is, who runs it, roughly what it costs, and whether its site was reachable on the date shown.

For how to evaluate a group once you find one — anonymity, cost structure, peer-led versus clinician-led, and the warning signs of a group that exists to sell you something — see our guide to choosing a herpes support group.