Pregnancy, Pregnancy Loss, Miscarriage, Infertility, Family Planning and Postpartum Mental Health Counseling are forms of psychotherapy designed to support individuals or couples who are facing challenges around fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum.
Infertility is often stressful for both individuals and couples and affects men as well as women. It can cause significant strain in relationships between partners. Sometimes, these stresses can lead to symptoms of common mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. If this is the case for you, infertility counseling can be a helpful way to move through these challenges.
Our specially trained and experienced therapist will provide their clients with safe, neutral grounds in which to discuss the numerous issues related to infertility and validate the intense feelings and emotions which often accompany the crisis.
Although your therapists cannot intervene in medical treatments to help a woman become pregnant, they can help individuals wade through the process, communicate better with each other, and gather more support from family and friends. Since therapists are trained to focus on an individual or couple within a systems context, they can help persons experiencing infertility to address issues in a clearer way. Therapists are trained to help couples understand how the interactions between the couple and their families can sometimes get in the way and create conflict.
Therapy can also provide an opportunity for individuals and couples to learn more efficient ways of addressing issues, make sense of them, reduce conflict, and stress, and make wiser decisions regarding medical treatments. Often, partners have different opinions regarding a particular treatment, which may result in relationship discord. Therapy can help the couple negotiate a plan, become more focused, and set an agreeable timeline for treatment. He or she can help evaluate when it is time to change course or stop medical treatment altogether and help explore other alternatives. Therapy addresses the critical issues at hand and will assist in building constructive bridges to life goals that are realistic and meaningful.
Additionally, your therapist can equip the client with helpful resources for infertility, such as referral to support groups, videos, and literature. Support groups are an especially valuable resource that can help individuals and couples cope with infertility and provide the opportunity to learn from other people experiencing the same crisis.