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Reproductive Mental Health, IVF & Fertility Counselling

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

Reproductive mental health counselling at Wong Counselling supports individuals and couples experiencing fertility challenges, IVF journeys, pregnancy loss, donor conception, and family-building stress. Whether you’re preparing for treatment, coping with uncertainty, or grieving complex losses, our therapists provide a calm, non-judgmental space to process emotions, strengthen communication, and navigate the medical and emotional realities of fertility care.

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Who This Service Is For:

 

Individuals experiencing:
– Infertility stress
– IVF/IUI emotional overwhelm
– Hormonal treatment mood changes
– Pregnancy loss or recurrent miscarriage

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Couples navigating:
– Decision-making around treatment
– Communication breakdown under stress
– Sexual intimacy changes
– Donor/surrogacy pathways

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LGBTQ2S+, solo parents & diverse families:
– Family planning guidance
– Gender-affirming reproductive pathways
– Accessing donor or fertility services
– Support through medical barriers or discrimination

Who This Service Is For:

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

Individuals experiencing:
– Infertility stress
– IVF/IUI emotional overwhelm
– Hormonal treatment mood changes
– Pregnancy loss or recurrent miscarriage

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Couples navigating:
– Decision-making around treatment
– Communication breakdown under stress
– Sexual intimacy changes
– Donor/surrogacy pathways

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LGBTQ2S+, solo parents & diverse families:
– Family planning guidance
– Gender-affirming reproductive pathways
– Accessing donor or fertility services
– Support through medical barriers or discrimination

How Therapy Helps During Your Fertility Journey

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

Fertility treatment presents unique emotional challenges — grief, uncertainty, waiting, and decision fatigue. Our reproductive-trained therapists help you:

  • Understand your emotional responses

  • Build coping skills for the roller-coaster of treatment

  • Strengthen couple communication and shared decision-making

  • Process pregnancy loss or traumatic birth experiences

  • Reduce anxiety during IVF cycles, two-week waits, and appointments

  • Explore identity, meaning, and future planning

Common Topics We Work With

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

  • Coping with infertility diagnoses

  • IVF/IUI stress and medical trauma

  • Pregnancy loss, recurrent miscarriage

  • Fear of pregnancy after loss

  • Decisions about donor eggs, sperm, embryos

  • Surrogacy / gestational carrier support

  • Faith- or culture-based reproductive concerns

  • Navigating cultural or family pressure

  • Managing isolation, shame, or identity shifts

  • Secondary infertility

  • Blended biological and non-biological parenting pathways

A Trauma-Informed, Inclusive Space

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

  • Our therapists understand the intersection of reproductive trauma, medical anxiety, identity, cultural beliefs, and relationship stress. We welcome all individuals and families, including LGBTQ2S+ parents, single parents by choice, multi-ethnic families, and those using donors or gestational carriers.

What to Expect in Sessions

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

  • Gentle exploration of emotions, fears, and losses

  • Practical coping tools for appointments and procedures

  • Support with communication between partners

  • Guidance navigating treatment decisions

  • Grief processing and meaning-making

  • Mind-body strategies to reduce distress

Related Services Our Clinic Provides 

Compassionate emotional support for individuals and couples navigating their fertility journey.

  • Perinatal & Postpartum Counselling

  • Couples Counselling

  • Trauma Counselling

  • Neurodivergent-affirming Therapy

  • Family Planning & Life Transition Support

FAQ

1. What is reproductive mental health counselling?

Reproductive mental health counselling focuses on the emotional, psychological, and relational challenges related to fertility treatments, pregnancy loss, reproductive medical decisions, and family building. It provides a supportive space to process stress, grief, and uncertainty.

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2. Do I need a referral to start fertility counselling?

No. You can self-refer at any time. Many clients start counselling before beginning IVF/IUI or when they begin feeling overwhelmed by appointments, decision-making, or results.

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3. Can therapy help during IVF or IUI cycles?

Yes. Therapy helps manage anxiety, fear, grief, and the emotional swings that often occur during hormone treatments, monitoring, and the two-week wait. Research supports that psychological support improves overall coping and treatment experience.

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4. Do you support individuals after pregnancy loss?

Absolutely. We provide compassionate grief counselling for early loss, recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, and traumatic pregnancies.

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5. Do you support LGBTQ2S+ and non-traditional families?

Yes. Our clinic is LGBTQ2S+ affirmative and experienced in donor conception, surrogacy, and gender-affirming reproductive pathways.

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6. Can couples attend together?

Yes, couples counselling is available to navigate communication, shared decision-making, emotional strain, and future planning.

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