Couples Therapy for Infertility
Online Therapy in South Carolina
Your relationship is hurting from infertility.
Infertility is something you probably didn’t expect, and maybe didn’t find out until you were ready to have children. It brings worry and grief. You feel stuck in a seemingly never-ending pattern. One day, you’re trying and maybe even hoping. The next minute, you feel a sense of failure and loss. You feel like your whole future is hanging onto one small hope, and it's out of your control.
You find yourself anticipating the worst, pulled apart by the anxiety of what your future holds. Along with that, you may feel angry, sad, or even depressed. It’s hard to be yourself when you feel your world breaking.
Your relationship is hurting and you're disconnected. Sex lost the intimacy and spark that it once had. It’s now a business, and a stressful one at that. You can get so focused on a schedule and on the right conditions that sex becomes a chore. It becomes work. Or you just shut down because there’s already too much loss and heartache attached to sex. You and your partner are together; yet, you feel alone. You feel isolated.
You just want answers on your fertility journey.
You want to know the next steps. There are so many choices to make. There are treatments to infertility, but it can be confusing to figure out where to go next and what your options are.
And having a plan in place doesn’t take away the feelings of loss and loneliness that you may already be experiencing; it doesn’t make up for the journey you may have already gone through to get to this point of realizing that your relationship is hurting.
It’s important, especially in these times, that you and your partner stay connected; that you stay supportive of each other and that you keep your relationship with each other at the center.
And let’s be real here: You may feel stigmatized or isolated. People probably have asked you (on multiple occasions): “Why haven’t you had kids yet?” or “Don’t you want children?” So, on top of everything else you’re dealing with, you now feel ashamed. It’s led you to isolate yourself even more. You’d rather hide away and muddle through your grief, than be vulnerable and admit that you can’t do it alone. But you don’t have to go through this alone.
You can have a thriving relationship even in the midst of fertility issues.
Couples therapy is a time for you and your partner to pull closer together and unite against the feelings of despair. The anxiety and heartache you’ve both experienced weigh heavily on your relationship.
You need to let intimacy back into your marriage.
That’s my desire: to help you connect with each other, be able to share your needs, your frustrations, and understand each other in a way that doesn’t just make you good communicators, but makes you good partners. Therapy will help bring you both closer together even through your heartache of infertility. My hope is that you experience a deeper level of intimacy.
Your relationship can be a support, a safe haven, when you're facing uncertainty.
You can strengthen your relationship and enhance your intimacy.
I’ve seen couples experience infertility and still grow stronger together. You cannot control every aspect of your life, but you do have control over how you love and care for each other.
I’ve helped couples go from dreadful feelings of shame, isolation, and self-doubt to loving each other and feeling confident in their relationship, empowering them to make decisions about their future and decide what steps are best for them to take.
That’s my hope for your journey in therapy: that you both can connect on a deeper, more meaningful level. Through working through the emotional pain of infertility together, you and your partner will develop a stronger bond, understanding each other in new ways that can protect your relationship from the stress of doubt, loss, and fear. You can have hope.
Online Couples Therapy for Infertility
Your relationship needs support as you face infertility. Book a consultation now to learn how I can help.
