Infertility Counseling
We offer a compassionate and understanding environment for individuals and couples navigating the emotional complexities of fertility challenges. Our experienced counselors provide support, guidance, and strategies to cope with the unique stressors associated with infertility. Together, we work towards emotional well-being, fostering resilience, and exploring pathways to navigate this journey with hope and strength.
Do I Need Counseling?
Are you struggling month after month to get pregnant? Are you beginning to look into fertility treatments such as IVF, IUI or surrogacy? There are so many options and the stress just keeps growing. Depression counseling and anxiety treatment can be an integral piece in your journey towards motherhood.
You may encounter unexpected challenges as you pursue parenthood. When you’re having fertility problems, you may find yourself on an emotional roller coaster. You might feel alone and uncertain about how to proceed. Processing your feelings in a safe environment through counseling will allow you to stay connected with your partner.
Facing infertility is very stressful.
The level of pain women feel when they cannot conceive is immense. The pain is comparable to losing a loved one or receiving a diagnosis of a terminal illness. Therefore, infertility can lead to anxiety and depression.
However, you do not have to go through this exhausting, all-consuming, and daily battle alone. Postpartum Wellness will help you through your journey with fertility treatment. Regardless of whether you are pursuing Assisted Reproductive Procedures such as IUI, IVF, egg donation and surrogacy or if you have chosen adoption, our expert therapists can provide emotional support so you’re stronger as you walk through the process.
Infertility Counseling
May Include
Advocating for effective, therapeutic care in a medical setting
Coping with anxiety, stress, and depression
Managing the stress of fertility treatment and everyday life
Exploring fertility treatment options (including using donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, and/or working with gestational carriers/surrogates)
Making well-informed treatment decisions
Enhancing couples’ communication as they go through fertility treatment
How Will Infertility Counseling Help?
If you’re experiencing infertility, each month’s cycle without a pregnancy can feel like a loss. You might have to watch friends and family get pregnant, have baby showers, and enjoy their growing children. The pain of watching loved ones have what you long for can also be confusing and challenging. At Postpartum Wellness, our expert counselors that understand your pain. We are ready to help you navigate the healing process. In counseling sessions, your infertility therapist will encourage you to share the ways in which your infertility struggle has affected your life. They will deeply listen to your unique experience, validate your feelings and share with you common emotional responses to infertility. You will be encouraged to talk about strains among your friends and family, tensions with your partner, financial concerns, and even trouble at work or within your social life.
Stress and Infertility
Lowering your stress levels is an important part of infertility counseling. Studies have shown that stress actually affects ovulation. Therefore, we will work together to control the stress and anxiety that come with infertility.
Obsessing over what may happen or what might work can lead to feelings of anxiety or depression. You may try to avoid talking about the issue with your partner for fear they will become angry or won’t love you anymore. Maybe sex has lost its spontaneity, and you are worried about how the pressure to perform and keep track of your fertility will impact your physical and emotional intimacy.
Much of our personal identity is wrapped up in our ability to produce children. Don’t do this alone.
In the realm of uncertainty, embrace the beauty of the unknown, for it is the undefined spaces that opportunities for growth, discovery, and resilience often unfold.
INFERTILITY COUNSELING AT POSTPARTUM WELLNESS
We are here for you!
Postpartum Wellness provides expert individual therapy for women from all over the Washington, DC region. We believe in the healing power of connection. We’ve worked with countless women who have shared your pain. Most importantly, we’ve seen those same women redefine hope, make a plan forward and find a way to balance all of the emotions they were feeling. Healing is possible. Joy is possible.
Our counseling services use the latest research. We use effective counseling techniques, while also forming a strong relationship with you as a client. W e offer compassionate and solution-focused treatment. Treatment draws directly from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well as Interpersonal Therapy to provide you with a holistic approach to healing.
Each therapy session is completely confidential. Postpartum Wellness offers virtual telehealth services. When needed, we work with your doctor to coordinate your mental health treatment.
Appointments For
Donor & Surrogacy
It is expected to be nervous about whether you will have a genetic connection with your baby.
Also, you might have questions about how to navigate conversations about your experience as a parent of a donor-conceived baby.
Donor and surrogacy options are complicated and we are here to help you work through your thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
WHAT DOES INFERTILITY COUNSELING LOOK LIKE AT POSTPARTUM WELLNESS?
Your first counseling session is called the “intake interview.” At this session, your therapist gets thorough review of your life story and current situation. It’s important your therapist really understands where you are coming from in order to create a realistic plan to help you move forward. From there, we meet for regular individual counseling sessions – which is where the real work begins.
Other Services at Postpartum Wellness
The skilled counselors at Postpartum Wellness specialize in many areas other than infertility. They help with all aspects of the journey towards parenthood, whether you need counseling or just a little support after birth. Some of our specialties include depression during/after pregnancy, anxiety, and trauma.
You’re filling with jealousy and sadness as you see all of your friends becoming pregnant and bringing their babies home. You wish you could join them on the journey to motherhood. You don’t have to manage the stress of infertility alone. As a specialized counseling center, our expert counselors understand your pain and can act as a guide for you during this stressful time. Contact Postpartum Wellness today to begin counseling for infertility.
INFERTILITY COUNSELING IN FLORIDA, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND DC
