Fertility, Pregnancy Loss & Endometriosis

 

Fertility & Reproductive Grief

The path to building a family is rarely the one we imagined. Whether you're navigating infertility, moving through the emotional complexity of IUI, IVF, or donor oocyte cycles, exploring adoption, or carrying the weight of miscarriage or pregnancy loss. This journey asks more of you than most people around you will ever understand.

What you're experiencing is the hope-despair cycle. And it lives in your body just as much as it lives in your mind.

I work with individuals at every stage of the reproductive journey, holding space for the full emotional landscape, the hope and the heartbreak, the uncertainty and the exhaustion, the complicated feelings that don't always have names. My approach is rooted in grief and trauma therapy, with a deep focus on nervous system regulation. Because when your body has been through what fertility treatment puts it through, healing has to include more than talk.

I hold specialized training through the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), which informs how I understand the medical, emotional, and relational dimensions of fertility treatment. This means you won't have to spend our sessions explaining the basics — I already speak the language, and I can meet you where you actually are.

Together, we'll work to:

  • Process the grief and trauma of pregnancy loss, failed cycles, or a diagnosis that changed everything

  • Regulate a nervous system that has been in survival mode

  • Navigate the emotional weight of medical decision-making and treatment

  • Rebuild your sense of self, identity, and hope, wherever you are in the process

  • Find support that honors all of your experience, not just the parts that are easy to name

You deserve a space where nothing has to be minimized or explained away. I'm here for all of it.

 

Endometriosis & Holistic Mental Health

Endometriosis is far more than a reproductive condition. It is a whole-body, chronic inflammatory disease that affects every aspect of daily life: your energy, your relationships, your sense of self, and your mental health. And yet, for far too long, it has been dismissed, minimized, and misdiagnosed.

I approach endometriosis from a holistic, integrative perspective, one that takes seriously how chronic pain, hormonal shifts, nervous system dysregulation, and medical trauma compound over time. If you've spent years being told your pain was normal, or found yourself grieving a version of your life that endo quietly took from you, I understand. Not just as a therapist, but as someone who has lived it.

In our work together, we'll explore:

  • The emotional and psychological impact of living with chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis

  • Grief and identity, including how endo may have reshaped your sense of your body and your future

  • Nervous system regulation to help your body find greater ease and resilience

  • Navigating the healthcare system with your emotional well-being intact

  • The intersection of endometriosis and fertility, including the grief that comes when the two collide

 

My Story

For most of my life, I was taught, implicitly and explicitly, to ignore what my body was telling me. The pain was normal. Every woman went through it. Push through.

It wasn't until I began trying to get pregnant that I discovered how much I had been carrying without knowing it. When I couldn't conceive, I was eventually diagnosed with two endometriomas. Suddenly, a lifetime of symptoms I had been conditioned to dismiss had a name, and the grief of that realization was layered and complicated in ways I hadn't anticipated.

What followed was a season of overlapping experiences: fertility treatment, surgical intervention, recovery, and the particular kind of exhaustion that comes from fighting for answers in a medical system that doesn't always make space for the whole person. I know what it feels like to sit in a waiting room and hold so much at once. I know the strange grief of a body that surprises you. And I know how hard it can be to find support that truly gets it.

That experience is now woven into everything I do in the therapy room. When I sit with someone navigating fertility challenges or living with endometriosis, I'm not just drawing on my clinical training - I'm drawing on my own story. And I hope that makes this space feel a little less lonely.

 

Who Can Benefit from This Work?

You may be a good fit for this work if you are:

  • Going through IUI, IVF, donor egg cycles, or exploring adoption and feeling emotionally depleted

  • Grieving a miscarriage, pregnancy loss, or the end of fertility treatment

  • Living with endometriosis and looking for support that honors the mental health impact of chronic illness

  • Struggling with anxiety, depression, or trauma connected to your reproductive health journey

  • Trying to regulate a nervous system that has been in overdrive through months or years of treatment

  • Looking for a therapist who understands this journey, not just clinically, but personally

You don't have to be in crisis to deserve support. If this path is hard, that's enough.

You don’t have to carry this alone. Schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation today.