• Are you struggling with infertility?
• Is your experience of infertility impacting how you feel about your body, your self-worth, or your sense of identity?
• Does fertility treatment feel like a trauma to your body or a loss of trust in yourself?

Infertility is not only a medical experience, it is often an emotional, psychological and embodied one. For many women, it can affect how they relate to their body, their sense of self, and their relationship with food, control and coping.

When Fertility Struggles Affect Your Relationship with Food and Body

For some women, the experience of infertility, IVF and repeated loss can lead to:

• a loss of trust in the body
• feeling that the body has “failed”
• increased self-criticism or shame
• emotional eating or loss of control around food
• attempts to control the body through dieting or restriction
• disconnection from the body or emotional numbing

These responses are not uncommon. They are often ways of coping with the grief, uncertainty and emotional intensity of the fertility journey.

A Deeply Personal and Professional Understanding

I bring both personal and professional experience to this work.

After many years of trying to conceive naturally and through IVF, including multiple unsuccessful cycles, I understand the cumulative impact this can have on your body, your emotional world and your sense of self.

My own journey included experiences of body trauma, loss of trust in my body, and turning to coping strategies in response to the pain and uncertainty.

This informs the way I work, with depth, compassion and an understanding of what sits beneath the surface.

Support Across Your Fertility Journey

Women come to me for fertility counselling at all stages, including:

• pre and conscious conception
• IVF and assisted conception treatment
• pregnancy and early parenting
• alternative parenting paths
• ending fertility treatment and childfree living

Areas We May Work With

Counselling can support you to explore and process:

• grief, loss and uncertainty
• coping with unsuccessful IVF cycles
• miscarriage and reproductive trauma
• identity and sense of self
• emotional overwhelm, anxiety and depression
• relationship challenges
• body image and connection to the body
• emotional eating and coping patterns
• low self-worth and feeling not good enough
• trauma from invasive medical procedures

How I Work

My approach is depth-oriented, trauma-informed and compassionate.

Rather than focusing only on managing symptoms, we explore your emotional experience, your relationship with your body, and the deeper meaning of what you are going through.

The context I hold is one of possibility, whether your path leads to pregnancy, alternative parenting, or a meaningful and fulfilling life without children.

Working Together

I understand the profound loss, grief and uncertainty that can come with infertility.

This work is not about fixing or rushing the process, but about supporting you to navigate it with greater awareness, compassion and connection to yourself.

If you feel called to reach out, you are welcome to be in touch.