Online Therapy for Fertility Concerns
Fertility Counseling
Struggling with infertility or going through IVF can feel overwhelming, isolating, and emotionally exhausting. If you’re searching for a therapist who specializes in infertility counseling and IVF support, you deserve compassionate, evidence-based care. Therapy for infertility helps with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and the stress of fertility treatments. Whether you’re preparing for IVF, in the middle of a cycle, or coping with unsuccessful transfers, specialized infertility therapy offers emotional support, coping tools, and a safe place to process your experience. Reach out today for professional infertility counseling tailored to your journey.
How Can Therapy Help with IVF stress and Anxiety?
Therapy can be incredibly helpful during IVF because the process often brings uncertainty, loss of control, financial strain, hormonal shifts, and relationship stress—all at once. Here’s how therapy specifically helps with IVF stress and anxiety:
Therapy can reduce anxiety during IVF
Provides space to process grief and loss
Provides a space to process next steps
Provide support during hormonal changes due to treatment
Improve communication with partners
Reclaim your identity outside of fertility treatment
Create a plan for multiple possible outcomes
Reduces isolation in the journey
Support Decision-Making (e.g., should we try another cycle?)
Working with a therapist who specializes in fertility counseling means you don’t have to explain or justify your feelings.
Can Therapy Improve IVF Success Rates?
Therapy during IVF won’t change medical outcomes—but it can change how supported, grounded, and emotionally resourced you feel throughout the process. Many people find that having a consistent, specialized space to process IVF stress significantly improves their mental health and relationship with their partner. It can provide a space to unapologetically talk about their concerns.
Should Everyone Going Through IVF See a Licensed Therapist?
No- not necessarily. But, speaking to a trained professional can be helpful. You may want to consider reaching out to a therapist if you are experiencing the following symptoms:
You’re feeling overwhelmed with anxiety
Experiencing feelings of grief or loss
IVF is straining your relationships
Feeling isolated
Feeling triggered by social media
Avoiding baby showers or pregnancy announcements
You’re facing big decisions (e.g., should I do another round of IVF)
Increased symptoms of depression
Preventative Support
If fertility challenges are impacting your mood, sleep, relationship, or sense of self, it’s a good time to seek counseling. You don’t need to “earn” support by reaching a breaking point.
Should Partners of IVF Recipients Undergo Counseling?
This is a “it depends” question. Not everyone needs to undergo counseling, but most people can benefit from therapy. When one partner is undergoing IVF, both partners are impacted. Therapy isn’t only for the person receiving treatment—partners often carry stress, grief, financial pressure, and emotional helplessness. Here are common times when partners of IVF recipients should consider therapy:
Before starting IVF it can be helpful to discuss the upcoming challenges you will face
Process feelings after a failed cycle
Emotional distances emerges
Communication breaks down
Increase symptoms of anxiety and depression
Disagreement about continuing treatment
Financial stress
Trying to decide if you should stop treatment
How Can Therapy Help After Failed IVF?
A failed IVF cycle can feel devastating. Many people describe it as a loss that others don’t fully understand. Therapy can help you process the emotional, relational, and physical impact in ways that protect your mental health and your relationship.
Here’s how therapy helps after failed IVF:
Process Grief
Reduce anxiety about next steps
Support the relationship
Process next steps
Manage depression
Manage shame
Clarify and make meaning in the journey
Failed IVF is not “just a medical event.” It is emotional, relational, financial, and existential. Therapy helps you metabolize the experience rather than carry it alone.
What Counseling is Recommended during IVF?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Fertility Focused Counseling
Couples Counseling
What to Look for in a Therapist During IVF?
When looking for a therapist, it is useful to find someone who is familiar working with:
Infertility and reproductive concerns
Comfort discussing pregnancy loss
Knowledge of IVF terminology and process
Experience with grief work
Evidence-based anxiety treatment skills
What makes you qualified to do this?
I have a Masters in Clinical Health Psychology, meaning I have a background and training in the intersection between overall physical health and mental health. I’m a psychologist with over a decade of experience and have a background working in a hospital setting.
Clinically, I took the “long and winding road” to fertility work. Prior to working in private practice, I worked as a psychologist in the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. While there, I often found myself working with young adult cancer survivors who were struggling with fertility post-treatment.
After deciding to work in private practice, I started working with a broader population of women who are undergoing fertility concerns and have undergone additional training to best provide care. I regularly work with women who are undergoing IVF and have helped them navigate difficult treatment decisions while providing support. As a behavioral health provider, I’m comfortable sitting in uncertainty, processing grief, loss, and managing big feelings while going through fertility treatment. Oftentimes, people just need a space to process hard things while going through their health journey, and I enjoy being that person.
Online Therapy for Fertility Support
The decision to go to therapy in the midst of IVF can be challenging. We don’t want it to feel like just another appointment. You already have so many appointments. You’re not looking for a generalist who has “seen a few clients with medical issues.” You are looking for a specialist who understands the realities of IVF, the medical system, and the invisible ongoing struggle you endure on a daily basis. You need a therapist with real life experience who can help you through this difficult time. That’s where I come in.
I’m a psychologist with over a decade of clinical experience, with a background and training in Clinical Health Psychology. I’m a well seasoned therapist who is comfortable wading into the discomfort of discussing IVF, holding a space for the grief, and helping you navigate difficult decisions during IVF. Online fertility counseling provides the flexibility you need between you already many appointments. You don’t have to walk this journey alone.
Reach out when you’re ready — you don’t have to navigate this by yourself.