Therapy Focused on the Emotional Complexities of Your Fertility Journey.
The decision to grow your family can be exciting, but for those who are struggling to conceive or experiencing loss, it can become an emotionally demanding experience. Months of waiting, appointments and procedures, difficult decisions and the weight of uncertainty can leave you feeling exhausted, isolated and disconnected from your body, yourself and the people you love.
Infertility affects so much more than your reproductive 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 and traumatic. Miscarriage, stillbirth and recurrent loss can be devastating. Despite the frequency of 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 exhausted from fertility treatment. Maybe you're struggling to feel happy for friends who are pregnant. Maybe you're grieving a pregnancy 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 one of life's most challenging seasons, 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.
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
Therapy For the Emotional Side of Infertility
Fertility treatment can become all-consuming. There are appointments, medications, decisions, timelines, finances, and seemingly endless unknowns. Therapy provides a space to step outside of the logistics and focus on you. Together, we can work on:
Managing anxiety and uncertainty
Learn strategies for coping with the waiting, unknowns, and constant mental noise that often accompany infertility.
Processing grief and loss
Make space for disappointment, pregnancy loss, unsuccessful treatments, and the grief of the family-building experience you imagined.
Navigating relationships
Explore changes in your relationship, boundaries with family and friends, and the complicated emotions that can come with other people's pregnancies.
Setting boundaries without guilt
Learn how to protect your emotional well-being without feeling like you're disappointing everyone around you.
Reconnecting with yourself
Infertility can make it feel like your entire identity has become centered around becoming a parent. Therapy can help you reconnect with the parts of yourself that exist beyond fertility.
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 throughout New Jersey. I’m passionate about supporting clients navigating infertility, reproductive mental health, pregnancy, postpartum, and the emotional transitions that come with building a family.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in genuine connection. You are the expert on your own experience, and my role is to help you better understand what you're feeling, identify what you need, and develop the tools and confidence to navigate this difficult season.
You don't have to figure it all out on your own.
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
