Infertility Counseling
Finding Hope Through Infertility Struggles
The journey to grow your family can be filled with hope, heartbreak, and everything in between. For many, infertility brings feelings of grief, isolation, shame, or even a sense of failure. Each cycle of waiting, testing, or treatment can feel like an emotional rollercoaster.
At A New Day Psychology, I provide a safe, compassionate space to process the emotional weight of infertility. Together, we'll work through the pain while also finding ways to strengthen resilience, relationships, and hope for the future.
Specialized Support for Fertility Challenges
I have both personal experience with infertility and advanced clinical training in supporting individuals through this season. Therapy can help with:
Coping with Infertility Diagnoses and Treatments
Processing the emotional impact of medical findings, treatments, and unknown outcomes. Giving you a space to process intense feelings like grief, loss, anger, guilt, shame, and isolation, without judgment.
Managing the Stress of Infertility
Learning effective coping and grounding skills, like mindfulness, to help navigate the emotional "rollercoaster" and uncertainty with greater calm.
Strengthen Your Relationships
Giving you tools to improve communication, intimacy, and/or connection in order to reduce relational strain related to infertility.
Grief Work
Honoring the complex grief of infertility including failed cycles, pregnancy loss, the loss of "normal", to the loss of not having the family you yearn for.
Decision-Making Support
Helping clarify personal values and goals to make informed choices that align with your well-being when facing complex and emotionally charged decisions about treatment options (e.g., continuing or stopping treatment, using third-party reproduction, or pursuing other family-building paths).
Building Resilience and Identity
Challenging negative thought patterns and beliefs (e.g., feelings of inadequacy or failure) often associated with infertility, often using approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Redefining identity and self-worth beyond the ability to conceive.
My Approach
As both a psychologist and someone who has personally experienced infertility, I meet clients with empathy, understanding, and evidence-based tools. Approaches may include:
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
An effective tool for processing specific traumatic memories (e.g., failed IVF cycles, miscarriages, or medical trauma) to reduce their emotional intensity and help clients heal from reproductive trauma.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Promotes psychological flexibility by teaching acceptance of difficult emotions and redirecting focus toward committed action aligned with personal values, regardless of treatment outcomes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Focuses on identifying and challenging negative thought patterns and beliefs (e.g., self-blame, feelings of failure) to directly reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Mind-Body Interventions (MBI)
Uses techniques like Mindfulness and deep relaxation to lower physiological stress, reduce anxiety, and improve overall well-being.
Psychoeducation & Supportive Counseling
Provides factual medical information, emotional validation, and practical coping skills to reduce feelings of isolation and overwhelming uncertainty.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) / Tapping
An energy psychology technique that involves tapping on meridian points while focusing on distressing emotions, often used to quickly reduce the intensity of anxiety, stress, and trauma triggers.
You Don't Have to
Carry This Alone
Infertility may be part of your story, but it does not define your worth or your future.
With the right support, it's possible to move through this challenging season with courage and renewed hope.
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Perinatal Mental Health
Specialized support for pregnancy, postpartum anxiety, depression, and the transition to motherhood.
Grief Counseling
Compassionate support for pregnancy loss, failed cycles, and the grief unique to infertility.
Trauma Therapy
Healing from medical trauma, traumatic procedures, and PTSD related to infertility treatments.