Therapy for LGBTQ+ Family Building
Family building can be both exciting and stressful.
The emotional, medical, financial, and legal aspects of family building can be overwhelming and cause strain in even the healthiest relationships. You may be considering a range of options, such as donor egg or sperm, IVF, surrogacy, or adoption. Or you might be clear how you’ll build your family but need some additional support or help with your relationship during the process.
Family and friends may ask intrusive or inappropriate questions, like “which one of you is the real mom?” or “have you thought about how that would affect the kids?”
THERAPY FOCUS AREAS
Adoption Issues
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Communications Skills
Donor & Surrogacy Options
Grief & Mourning
Perinatal Loss
Relationship Stress
Reproductive Mental Health
Trauma, Depression & Anxiety
How Does Therapy Help?
In therapy, you’ll be supported in managing the many thoughts and feelings that come with navigating the family building process. We’ll discuss your options and help clarify the best way to move forward for you and your family. Therapy often includes improving communications skills, resolving conflict, and developing healthy boundaries.
Through our work together, my clients create meaningful lives that take many different forms. To figure out what this looks like for you, we’ll draw from your unique strengths and identities, while addressing societal pressures and the impacts of systems in which you live and work.
You don’t have to do this alone. As a certified perinatal mental provider and licensed psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience, I have the knowledge and skills to help you navigate your family building process.
