When building your family becomes a source of anxiety.
Therapy for women navigating infertility, IVF, fertility treatment, reproductive uncertainty, and the emotional weight of trying to become a mother.
Virtual therapy for women in New York
Fertility treatment can turn your life into appointments, numbers, waiting, and uncertainty.
I understand how consuming that experience can be.
Fertility treatment can ask you to live in a state of constant anticipation, injections, procedures, bloodwork, monitoring, waiting for results, and trying to make sense of numbers that can suddenly feel like they determine your future.
And then there is everything outside of the medical treatment, keeping appointments around work, deciding who to tell, navigating intrusive questions, watching friends become pregnant, managing relationship stress, and wondering whether you are somehow doing something wrong.
You may begin to feel disconnected from your body, as though it has become a project to monitor, measure, and fix. You may find yourself constantly calculating timing, preparing for the next step, and simultaneously trying not to get your hopes up because you know how painful another disappointment can be.
I know how personal and emotionally exhausting this process can be because I have experienced fertility treatment myself. That experience deepened my understanding of how much can happen beneath the surface, the grief, uncertainty, frustration, hope, and fear that can be difficult to explain to people who have not lived it. Therapy was an important part of how I navigated that experience, and it is one of the reasons I feel so strongly about supporting others through theirs.
You deserve a space where you can be a person, not a patient, and where your emotional experience matters just as much as what is happening medically.
You might be here because…
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You're exhausted by the process
The appointments, medications, procedures, monitoring, and waiting have begun to consume your physical and emotional energy.
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You're struggling with the uncertainty
You may be navigating fear, overthinking, disappointment, or difficulty allowing yourself to feel hopeful about what comes next.
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Fertility treatment is affecting more than you expected
It's becoming harder to balance treatment with work, relationships, family expectations, your sense of self, and the rest of your life.
Therapy can give you somewhere to put everything you're carrying.
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Processing grief and loss
Make space for pregnancy loss, failed cycles, failed transfers, and the grief that can accompany a fertility journey—without being told to simply move on.
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Managing anxiety and uncertainty
Develop tools for navigating the waiting, uncertainty, intrusive thoughts, and fear that can accompany each stage of treatment.
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Coping with the emotional impact of treatment
Explore the frustration, anger, sadness, exhaustion, and loss of control that can emerge when treatment begins to dominate your life.
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Navigating relationships
Work through differences in how you and your partner cope, communicate, make decisions, and experience the fertility journey.
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Protecting your emotional boundaries
Learn how to respond to intrusive questions, pregnancy announcements, family expectations, and situations that feel emotionally overwhelming.
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Finding yourself outside of fertility treatment
Reconnect with the parts of your identity, relationships, work, and life that existed before fertility became such a significant part of your story.
Fertility treatment can be difficult to explain to someone who hasn't experienced the emotional uncertainty that comes with it.
I have personally experienced fertility treatment, and that experience deepened my understanding of how profoundly the process can affect your emotional well-being, relationships, sense of control, and relationship with your own body.
It also showed me the value of having a space where you can be honest about what you're feeling without needing to make it sound positive, rational, or manageable.
My approach integrates DBT, ACT, attachment-based therapy, and compassion-focused work to help you navigate anxiety, grief, uncertainty, relationship stress, and the complicated emotions that can accompany fertility treatment.
My personal experience informs my empathy, but your experience is always your own. Therapy is about making space for your story not comparing it to mine.
Therapy informed by both clinical training and lived understanding.
This may be a good fit if you're…
Going through IVF or another fertility treatment
Preparing for or recovering from a fertility procedure
Coping with a failed cycle or failed embryo transfer
Navigating pregnancy after infertility
Experiencing pregnancy loss during your fertility journey
Considering whether to continue treatment
Feeling anxious about another cycle or transfer
Struggling with the uncertainty of trying to conceive
Feeling disconnected from or frustrated with your body
Finding fertility treatment difficult to balance with work
Keeping treatment private from family, friends, or coworkers
Struggling with pregnancy announcements or friends' pregnancies
Experiencing relationship stress related to fertility treatment
Feeling overwhelmed by questions about when you're going to have children
Choose the Support That Fits Where You Are
Sometimes you need ongoing support. Sometimes you need a focused space for a specific moment.
I offer both ongoing psychotherapy and a focused 90-minute Fertility & IVF Support Intensive.
Ongoing Infertility & IVF Therapy
For women who want continued support while navigating infertility, IVF, reproductive decisions, pregnancy after infertility, or related life and relationship challenges.
Fertility & IVF Support Intensive
A 90-minute focused clinical session for women experiencing an emotionally intense fertility-related moment, such as preparing for an embryo transfer, navigating the two-week wait, processing a negative beta or failed transfer, or coping with an unexpected treatment setback.
Questions you may be asking
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No. Fertility-related therapy can be helpful during treatment, between cycles, after a failed cycle or transfer, following pregnancy loss, or when you're trying to understand what comes next.
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Yes. A failed cycle or transfer can bring grief, disappointment, anxiety, anger, and uncertainty about whether to try again. Therapy can provide space to process those emotions and determine what you need moving forward.
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Yes. Pregnancy loss can be especially complicated when it occurs within a fertility journey. Therapy can provide a space to process grief without minimizing the significance of what you've experienced.
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You can love someone and still experience difficult emotions when they become pregnant. Therapy can help you understand and work through those reactions without judgment or shame.
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It can. Couples may cope with treatment differently, experience different levels of hope or fear, or struggle with communication and decision-making. Individual therapy can provide space to process your own experience and navigate relationship stress.
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Yes. I have personally experienced fertility treatment, which has given me a deeper understanding of the uncertainty, emotional exhaustion, and complicated feelings that can accompany the process. My role in therapy, however, is to make space for your experience and support you without comparison or judgment.
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Ongoing therapy is designed for women who want continued psychological support throughout their fertility journey. Sessions are 45 minutes and $225, with the frequency based on your individual needs.
The Fertility & IVF Support Intensive is a 90-minute, focused session designed around a specific fertility-related moment, such as preparing for an embryo transfer, navigating the two-week wait, or processing an unexpected treatment setback. It can be booked as a standalone service without committing to ongoing therapy.
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You can learn more about fees, scheduling, and what to expect from the therapy process on my Fees & FAQ page.
You don't have to carry all of this alone.
Fertility treatment can take up an enormous amount of physical and emotional space. Therapy can give you somewhere to process what you're experiencing, make room for the feelings that don't always have a place elsewhere, and reconnect with yourself beyond the treatment.
You deserve a space where you can be honest about what this journey has been like.