Fertility + Infertility Counseling

Much of having a child feels out of control.

Helping you handle that out-of-control feeling to connect with what you value and the future you want.

You want to grow your family at some point and may be here because…

  • You often think about your “biological clock”

  • You want kids but don’t know when or how

  • You’ve been told you’ll have a hard time getting pregnant because of a medical condition like PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, thyroid problems, an STI, or pelvic inflammatory disease

  • You are thinking about saving eggs, sperm, embryos, or reproductive tissue to preserve fertility because the time isn’t right or because of a medical diagnosis like cancer

  • You aren’t sure how family building and having the career you want will work together

 

You want to grow your family now (like yesterday) and may be here because…

  • You often think about your “biological clock”

  • You are trying to get pregnant now and living in the spike of hopeful optimism followed by lows when pregnancy doesn’t happen

  • You or your partner has been diagnosed with infertility

  • You want to better manage your emotions during infertility treatment (IUI, IVF, etc.)

  • You have experienced miscarriage or multiple miscarriages

  • You are experiencing secondary infertility and feel guilty for wanting another child when you already have one child or more

  • You are considering egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation, surrogacy, or adoption

However you arrived, we are so glad you are here.

Keep reading to see how our fertility and infertility counseling services can help.

Irritability, anger, sadness, worry, grief, guilt, shame. Feeling like you just don’t have control, especially over your emotions.

Without even asking you, your mind may be coping with that out-of-control feeling by working hard to be in control.

Your mind may be doing overtime trying to figure out this ticking biological clock feeling and/or infertility diagnosis.

You may be working really hard towards what you want. Your mind is hyperfocusing on your relationships and timeline, what you eat, what you drink, when you ovulate, when to have sex, how to relax, and so on. This hard work requires a lot of energy. It can lead you to argue with your partner more, feel disconnected from loved ones, struggle to focus at work, or have a hard time getting to sleep at night.

Or maybe an infertility diagnosis and/or pregnancy loss has triggered the memory of other challenging, even traumatic, times in your life when you felt out of control, guilty, or ashamed.

 

If any of this resonates with you…

you DESERVE a way to handle that out-of-control feeling once and for all so you can be the person, friend, partner, and worker, that you want to be throughout your family building journey.

We see that out-of-control feeling as an opportunity for growth.

We help you see how experiencing this out-of-control feeling may actually benefit you.  

Feeling out of control can be an important sign that something about your reality is hard to accept.

We want to offer you a whole new way to handle those out-of-control thoughts and feelings.

We empower you to live a life filled with the things you value by connecting with acceptance. To do this, I give you information and practical tools based in science that you will have with you long after therapy is over.

Areas where we can help…

  • Figuring out what family means and looks like for you

  • Decision making around fertility preservation (cryopreservation AKA freezing eggs, sperm, or embryos)

  • Preparing for pregnancy

  • Dealing with the ups and downs during each cycle of trying to conceive 

  • Healing from miscarriage and multiple miscarriages

  • Sadness and depression, worry and anxiety, and feeling helpless or hopeless in the face of an unknown family building future

  • Unfairness and the irritability, anger, loneliness, guilt, and shame that can accompany pregnancy loss and an infertility diagnosis

  • Feeling a loss of control over your body or like your body has betrayed you

  • Healing from grief: the loss of your imagined family building journey and family; the loss of a biological relation with donor egg, sperm, or embryos; the loss of being physically pregnant with surrogacy or adoption

  • Coping with the stress of infertility treatment

  • Couples’ communication when trying to have a baby

  • Navigating decisions around donor materials, surrogacy, adoption

  • Figuring out if, when, and how to take a break from infertility treatment

  • and more! Please reach out if you don’t see what you’re looking for.