Therapy Focused on the Emotional Complexities of Your Fertility Journey.
The decision to grow your family can be exciting, but when you’re struggling to conceive or experiencing loss, it can quickly become an emotionally demanding experience. Months of waiting, appointments and procedures, difficult decisions and the weight of uncertainty leave you feeling exhausted, isolated and disconnected from your body, yourself and the people you love.
Infertility affects so much more than your physical health. It touches your relationships, your identity, your confidence, and your vision for the future. Medicated cycles, IUI, IVF and the associated tests and procedures can feel violating or traumatic. Miscarriage, stillbirth and recurrent loss can be devastating. Despite the frequency of medical appointments, you might feel as though there is little attention paid to your emotional health through this process.
Maybe you feel anxious every month. Maybe you're physically and emotionally exhausted from the stress of fertility treatment. Maybe you're still grieving a loss while everyone around you seems to have moved on.
Therapy offers a space to process grief, navigate uncertainty, manage anxiety, and reconnect with yourself while moving through whatever your reproductive story might be. Whether you're just beginning to explore fertility treatment, coping with pregnancy loss, navigating IVF, considering donor conception or adoption, or facing the possibility of living without children, you deserve care, understanding, and support from a therapist who understands what you’re going through.
Support for Individuals Navigating:
Miscarriage, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, Stillbirth
Trying to Conceive
Infertility Diagnosis
Fertility Treatment (Medicated Cycles, IUI, IVF)
Pregnancy after Loss (PAL)
Single Parenthood by Choice
Donor conception or surrogacy
Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR)
Decisions to Pause or Discontinue TTC
The relationship you have with your therapist matters.
Choosing to begin therapy is a meaningful decision, especially when you’re navigating something as personal and sensitive as infertility. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor providing virtual therapy to clients throughout New Jersey.
I’m passionate about supporting clients navigating the emotional ups and downs of fertility treatment, particularly when the journey has included miscarriage or other forms of loss. You may feel like your life is measured in appointment dates, medication schedules, and two-week waits, or find yourself constantly bracing for the next disappointment. You might struggle to trust your body after loss, feel anxious about every decision and outcome, or wonder how to stay hopeful while also trying to protect yourself from getting hurt again. The path through fertility treatment can be physically and emotionally exhausting, and you don't have to carry the uncertainty on your own.
My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, and rooted in genuine connection. I believes meaningful change begins when you feel safe enough to show up as your authentic self. You are the expert on your own experiences. My role is not to tell you how you should feel or what you should do, but to offer a space where you can process your experiences honestly and feel genuinely understood. You shouldn’t have to explain the logistics of what you’re going through, you deserve therapist who understands your experiences so you can focus on what matters. Together, we’ll make space for the parts of your story that may have been difficult to share elsewhere.
You deserve support that makes space for your whole story, not just the parts that are easy to talk about.
Therapy For the Emotional Side of Infertility
Infertility and fertility treatment can become all-consuming. There are the appointments, medications, decisions, timelines, finances, and seemingly endless unknowns. The emphasis throughout this process tends to be the medical side of infertility, with little attention to the emotional toll this process takes. Therapy specifically focused on fertility and reproductive health provides a space to step outside of the logistics, appointments and medications and focus on you and your mental health. Together, we can work on:
Managing Anxiety and Uncertainty
Fertility treatment comes with a lot of waiting. Waiting for results, waiting for procedures, waiting to start a cycle, waiting for the next cycle. Learn strategies for coping with the uncertainty, unknowns, and ways to find a sense of peace in the uncertainty that comes with infertility.
Processing Grief and Loss
Therapy focused on reproductive mental health can help you process the losses and grief that come with infertility. An infertility diagnosis comes with grief about the journey you had planned or the future you imagined. You may be processing grief related to a previous miscarriage, or pregnancy loss, or be grieving a round of egg retrieval or embryo results or failed embryo transfer. Therapy gives you a space to process the emotional
Navigating Relationships & Setting Boundaries
Infertility can put a strain on your relationships. Navigating fertility treatment is stressful, and comes with physical and emotional fatigue which can put a strain on your relationship with your partner, friends and family. Find ways to communicate your feelings and needs, honor your capacity and find ways to connect with the people who matter to you.
Reconnecting with Yourself
Infertility can make it feel like your entire identity has become centered around becoming a parent. For some, fertility treatment feels like it takes over every aspect of your life, how you show up in relationships, at work, and what feels important. It might also mean a shift in the routines that typically keep you feeling grounded, leaving you feeling disconnected from coping skills and hobbies that you enjoy. Therapy can help you reconnect with the parts of yourself that exist beyond fertility, find new ways to take care of yourself and stay connected to the other parts of you.
Qualifications
Specialized Training
Postpartum Support International, Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy
Postpartum Support International, Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care
NICABM Treating the Psychological Impact of Infertility Training
American Society for Reproductive Medicine Mental Health Professional Training Modules Part 1
Education
B.A. Business Administration, The College of New Jersey, 2014
M.A. Applied Psychology, New York University, 2020
E.d.S. Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Rider University, 2023
Professional Memberships
Postpartum Support International
American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Mental Health Professional Group (MHPG)
Lets Make Space for What You’re Carrying.
If infertility is taking an emotional toll, therapy can give you a place to slow down, process what you're experiencing, and feel supported by someone who understands the unique emotional challenges of reproductive health. Fill out our contact form or reach out via email, call or text to schedule a free consultation.
Email: selena@willowpsychotherapygroup.com
Call/Text: 609.916.8630
Virtual Therapy for Clients in New Jersey
