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Compassionate therapy for individuals and couples navigating fertility, pregnancy loss, grief, and the emotional landscape of parenting after loss.
Every path to parenthood is unique — and the version of your life that includes it may look nothing like the one you expected. This work makes room for both what you hoped for and what actually happened.
The psychological weight of infertility, pregnancy loss, and reproductive grief is well documented and often underestimated by people outside it. Research from Harvard Medical School’s Alice Domar found that women experiencing infertility report levels of anxiety and depression comparable to those seen in patients with cancer or HIV — a comparison that surprises almost everyone the first time they hear it, and validates almost everyone who has lived it. Perinatal mental health is its own clinical focus area, distinct from general anxiety or depression care, because the terrain it covers — identity, embodiment, grief, and hope, often held simultaneously — is not something general practice always knows how to hold.
The physical, emotional, and relational weight of trying to conceive — whether through IUI, IVF, donor conception, or the long uncertainty before treatment begins. Space for the appointments, the two-week waits, and the version of your relationship that may feel unrecognizable from the one that started this process.
Miscarriage, stillbirth, medical termination, and the compound losses many people carry — especially after multiple losses. The grief is real; the acknowledgment often isn’t. This work names both.
Reproductive loss carries a specific kind of grief — the loss of a person you knew mostly through anticipation. Compassionate space for that grief without pathologizing it, and without rushing you toward “moving on.”
A subsequent pregnancy or child after a loss carries its own layered emotional reality — joy braided with anxiety, protection instincts that can feel disproportionate, and the ongoing work of loving one child while grieving another.
The emotional, hormonal, and identity shifts of the first postpartum year (and beyond). Support for postpartum depression and anxiety, matrescence and identity disorientation, and the ongoing developmental process of becoming a parent.
Grounded in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy — a strengths-based framework that assumes you already carry resources and resilience, and that the work is often about helping you access them under conditions that make it hard to see them clearly.
Perinatal transitions reshape attachment relationships at every level — to your partner, to your body, to the parent you are becoming or the parent you feel you have lost the chance to be. Attachment-informed care makes room for all of it.
Reproductive loss and postpartum crises can be genuinely traumatic. Care delivered in a trauma-informed frame — paced carefully, never rushing you past what you’re not ready to feel, with attention to the body and not just the story.
Book a free 15-minute consultation with Evangeline Wilson, AMFT. For help finding the right fit or to speak with our clinical director, call or text (916) 990-2326 or email [email protected].