Infertility Counseling & Support
When trying to build a family becomes an emotional journey of its own.
Infertility can be an incredibly emotional and isolating experience. The uncertainty, waiting, decisions, treatments, and repeated cycles of hope and disappointment can take a toll in ways that aren't always visible to others. You may be experiencing anxiety, grief, anger, sadness, relationship strain, or simply feeling exhausted from having to keep going.
As someone who has personally experienced infertility and IVF, I understand that the emotional experience can be complicated and deeply personal. As a therapist, I offer a space where you can talk openly about what you're going through without having to minimize your feelings, explain why this is difficult, or put on a brave face.
Infertility Concerns I Can Help With
The Emotional Impact of Infertility: Support for the grief, sadness, anger, anxiety, and uncertainty that can accompany infertility.
IVF & Fertility Treatment: Support for navigating the emotional ups and downs of fertility treatments, including the stress of appointments, procedures, waiting, and uncertainty.
Infertility Grief & Loss: Space to process the losses and disappointments that can come with infertility, including unsuccessful cycles, pregnancy loss, or the loss of expectations for how you imagined building your family.
Pregnancy Announcements & Social Situations: Support for navigating difficult feelings around pregnancy announcements, baby showers, family gatherings, and other situations that may bring infertility to the forefront.
Relationship Strain: Support for maintaining connection and communicating with your partner when infertility begins to affect your relationship, intimacy, or shared hopes for the future.
Feeling Isolated or Misunderstood: A space to talk honestly about experiences that others may not fully understand, including the complicated emotions that can exist alongside hope.
Treatment Decisions & Uncertainty: Support as you navigate difficult decisions, changing plans, and the uncertainty that can accompany fertility treatment.
How Infertility Counseling Can Help
Therapy can provide a place to process the emotional side of infertility while helping you feel more grounded and supported throughout your journey. Drawing from Person-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness-based practices, and other approaches tailored to your needs, we can work together to identify patterns that may be increasing anxiety or distress, develop coping strategies, process grief and difficult emotions, and find ways to care for yourself while navigating uncertainty.
The goal isn't to tell you how you should feel or what decisions you should make. It's to give you a space where your experience can be acknowledged, your feelings can be explored without judgment, and you can move through this experience in a way that feels more manageable and aligned with what matters to you.
A Personal Understanding of Infertility
I know firsthand that infertility isn't simply a medical experience. It can affect how you see yourself, your relationships, your plans for the future, and even your sense of control over your own life. Having experienced infertility and IVF myself, I bring both professional training and personal understanding to this work.
What To Expect
Our work together will be collaborative, compassionate, and centered around your experience. Whether you're looking for support during treatment, trying to make sense of a difficult outcome, or simply need a place where you can say the things you don't feel comfortable saying anywhere else, therapy can offer a space to breathe, process, and feel understood.