Fertility Issues

The inability to conceive a child can be a very painful circumstance, in some cases leading to grief perhaps as intense as the grief of actually losing a child. While fertility treatments in the medical field may be able to help some individuals and couples, for people who are not (yet) able to procreate, but want to, psychotherapy can be a way to work through feelings of grief, anxiety, worry, and other emotions. It can also help couples to deal with feelings of guilt or anger that may arise between the two partners when one person is infertile, and to make decisions about how to proceed - adoption, fertility treatments, artificial insemination, surrogate parenting, or even separation.