Therapy for Infertility
If you are struggling with infertility, know that you are not alone. Though it can be a frustrating and painful experience, infertility challenges are quite common. Whole Mother Therapy holds space for you to share your experiences and find healing. Our therapists can provide support, tools, and guidance to help you on your infertility journey.
Infertility Is a Challenge for Many Couples
Conception, pregnancy, and childbirth can be beautiful experiences, but they also hold the potential for grief, which can be painful and profound. Fertility challenges impact 12-15 percent of all couples trying to conceive, and research suggests that the causes of infertility are shared equally by female partners and male partners. Yet for such a common experience we rarely talk about its psychological impact on aspiring parents or ways to honor and navigate the complex feelings that arise.
Unlike the grief that comes with the loss of a loved one, the grief associated with infertility is much less clearly defined and rarely recognized in a public way. Our Pasadena therapists provide a safe space to work through your feelings of grief, which can take many forms.
Our Therapists Can Help You Process Your Grief
As you navigate infertility, you may find yourself grieving any number of things.
The hopeful narrative you’ve developed over the years as your reproductive story may seem unachievable, along with the progress and partnership of pregnancy that you’ve dreamt of. Intimacy with your partner may suffer as a result, as may outside social and familial relationships, particularly with those who do have children. Feelings of guilt and shame may arise, or resentment toward those who don’t know how to acknowledge or show up for you in your feelings of loss. Ruptures may form in close relationships, and isolation can become an issue.
Our infertility-informed therapists are here to provide the empathetic support that may be lacking in other areas of your life. Together, we’ll work on how to process these interactions and navigate these relationships, as well as how to support your emotional health in the face of these challenging feelings. We are here to help!
Support for Finding a Path Forward
Online Infertility therapy for aspiring Parents and Caregivers
Our Pasadena therapists have worked with individuals and couples struggling with infertility. We can provide useful tools for managing the difficult emotions that arise and help you process and express your experiences so you can make sense of your grief and feel validated in your suffering. We can help you learn to identify, self-validate, and meet your own needs when others aren’t able to. And we can point you toward new forms of intimacy with your partner and ways to set boundaries with family and friends.
At Whole Mother Therapy our services are individualized and collaborative so you get the support you need in a safe, sacred space. The grief of infertility can be very difficult to navigate, and your desire for closure becomes complex. We know you had different expectations for conceiving and being pregnant, and as you learn to process these challenges and feelings, we are here to guide and support you toward healing.
Whole Mother Therapy’s Approach to Therapy for Infertility for Aspiring Parents
At Whole Mother Therapy, your infertility therapist will take an intersectional approach to therapy. We understand how cultural expectations and social systems impact people’s personal lives. Our team is committed to taking these different aspects into account as we help our clients navigate everything from conception through parenthood within the larger context of their lives and communities.
If you’re finding it especially difficult to carry the feelings and handle the situations that come up on your infertility journey, and your well-being is suffering, seeking professional help from our Pasadena therapists with experience and training in infertility can be very beneficial to your mental health. Joining an infertility support group or a community forum can also be helpful.
Regardless of where you are in your journey, we are here to help you.
Begin Therapy for Infertility in California!
It is vital that aspiring parents struggling with infertility receive the support they need for their mental and emotional health, as well as the health of their relationships. At Whole Mother Therapy in California, we will help you work through your feelings about the experience. Our online Pasadena therapists are trained to provide the support and resources you need to move forward. If you are ready to get started with online therapy and begin the process of healing, we’re here to help.
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Additional Therapy Services Offered at Whole Mother Therapy
Being—or becoming—a new parent is not always easy. It’s time that you get the necessary support for your psychological well-being and intimate relationships. Regardless of what brings you here, we can help. We have therapists who offer a wide range of mental health services at our Pasadena office. We provide individual therapy for new parents, marriage counseling and couples therapy for new parents, postpartum depression treatment, postpartum anxiety treatment, therapy for birth trauma, therapy for infant loss and pregnancy loss, therapy for parental overwhelm and life transitions, and virtual therapy.
We also offer an eight-week in-person Sacred Motherhood Circle to honor the transitions and transformations of motherhood. And we hold several support groups, including an online pregnancy support group and an online postpartum support group. Finally, you can read more about our services, values, and resources on our therapy blog.
As an inclusive practice with BIPOC and queer practitioners, we want you to know that this is a safe and affirming space. Our practice is LGBTQIA+-allied and welcomes diversity of race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity. When you’re ready for support, we hold a healthy, inviting space for you to heal, grow, and develop with us.