In our first session together, here's what you can expect

Beginning therapy during infertility or IVF treatment can feel vulnerable. Our first session is a space to slow down and understand what you’ve been carrying — emotionally and physically. We’ll start by talking about where you are in your fertility journey. Whether you’re in active treatment, recovering from a loss, navigating secondary infertility, or facing difficult decisions about next steps, I want to understand both the medical timeline and the emotional impact. Infertility is not just clinical — it affects identity, relationships, work, and your sense of control. I’ll ask thoughtful assessment questions about anxiety, mood changes, sleep, coping patterns, relationship stress, and support systems. This helps me see the full picture and tailor our work to your needs. You are never pressured to share more than you’re ready for. We move at your pace. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, on edge, or emotionally exhausted, we’ll prioritize stabilization. I may introduce grounding tools or brief nervous system regulation strategies to help reduce intensity, especially if you are in the middle of a treatment cycle or acute grief phase. Before we end, we’ll clarify what you want from therapy. This might include managing cycle-related anxiety, processing pregnancy loss, improving communication with your partner, reducing self-blame, or making values-aligned decisions about your path forward. My approach is trauma-informed, grief-aware, and collaborative. This is a space where your experience is validated and taken seriously. You don’t have to carry the uncertainty, fear, or sadness alone.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

My greatest strength is my ability to recognize and treat reproductive trauma — not just “fertility stress.” Infertility and IVF can be profoundly destabilizing. Repeated procedures, hormonal shifts, invasive monitoring, pregnancy loss, medical uncertainty, and loss of control can create trauma responses that are often overlooked. Many women begin to experience hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, emotional numbing, shame, body distrust, or heightened anxiety around medical settings and announcements. With over 19 years of clinical experience — including medical and oncology social work and psychiatric assessment — I understand how medical experiences can become traumatic when hope, fear, and loss are layered together over time. I am deeply familiar with the IVF process: stimulation cycles, egg retrievals, embryo transfers, two-week waits, failed cycles, chemical pregnancies, miscarriage, and the decision points around continuing or stopping treatment. You won’t need to explain the basics — we can focus on what it has meant for you. I assess carefully for anxiety disorders, depressive symptoms, trauma responses, and complicated grief. Reproductive trauma is cumulative, and I approach it with both clinical precision and emotional attunement. My role is to help you: • Process loss without minimizing it • Reduce nervous system activation • Rebuild trust in your body • Strengthen your sense of identity • Make grounded decisions in the face of uncertainty Infertility can quietly erode your sense of safety and self. My work centers on restoring steadiness, agency, and emotional clarity as you move forward.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

My ideal clients are women and couples navigating infertility, IVF, pregnancy loss, and the emotional complexity of family-building. Many are high-functioning, responsible, and accustomed to managing challenges — yet feel destabilized by the uncertainty of fertility treatment. They may be balancing demanding careers while attending monitoring appointments, recovering from procedures, or coping with repeated disappointment. Outwardly composed, internally overwhelmed. I work well with clients who: • Are in active IVF or IUI cycles • Have experienced miscarriage or recurrent loss • Feel anxiety during the two-week wait • Struggle with comparison, isolation, or shame • Feel disconnected from their body • Are questioning whether to continue treatment • Are navigating third-party reproduction or oncology-related fertility loss Some come in feeling emotionally flooded. Others feel numb, exhausted, or quietly grieving the family they imagined. My ideal clients want a space where their experience is taken seriously — not minimized as “just stress.” They are ready to explore both the medical and emotional impact of infertility and want practical tools alongside deeper processing. Whether you are seeking support during treatment, clarity around next steps, or help rebuilding your identity after loss, I provide a steady, trauma-informed space to do that work. You do not have to navigate this season alone.