Fertility Psychotherapy
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Explore your fears and anxieties
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Keep your mind and body connected.
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Feel supported with difficult decisions.
Infertility Is Deeply Painful … & Still Very Common
NICE Guidance suggests that 1 in 7 couples (that’s around 14%) cannot get pregnant after a year of unprotected sex. HFEA Guidance suggests that 25% of women over 38 years old, 25% won’t be pregnant after 3 years of trying.
Infertility Can Come To Define Us
We can lose sight of what goals we had before Trying For A Baby. Our relationship, especially our sex life, can take a real battering. Our sense of self can be eroded and undermined. We can forget that we started out as a hopeful, purposeful, creative person.
We can experience a crisis of identity. We can become deeply anxious about time running out. We can hurt ourselves in order not to mourn - and become depressed. This is all part of the process of accepting our personal reality.
We Complement Your Clinic’s Fertility Counselling
Fertility Clinics offer their patients fertility counselling, which is extremely useful for helping women and couples think about their options.
We Specialise In Infertility:
We work with women and couples who discover they are unable to have a family naturally because one or both person is infertile. We work with medically unexplained infertility and infertility where there is a known physical cause such as cancer.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an evidence-based, relational intervention that helps people work through deep losses, think about who they are becoming, and make changes in their life. We specialise in infertility because this psychological work is vital if people are to move on and continue to live a meaningful life.
You may see Sarah for individual psychotherapy or join her psychotherapy group: Infertility: See You On The Other Side.
