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Health and Counseling Services

How can infertility counseling help me?

Our practice understands that fertility and its treatment can be very stressful and emotionally difficult. We are proud to have fertility counselors available as resources to complement your infertility care at SRM.

Appointments can be made with a fertility counselor at the recommendation of a SRM physician, SRM nurse or self-referrals. Simply, call the SRM offices or make an appointment next time you are seeing your provider.

The counseling services are designed to:

  • Help you cope with the stress of treatment and infertility problems
  • Help you improve relationships and communication with family and friends
  • Assess and strengthen your emotional health
  • Facilitate and support your problem-solving and decision making
  • Provide referrals to appropriate resources when needed
  • Offer you safe and therapeutic small patient groups to meet others facing the challenges of trying to get pregnant.

 

Recommended Appointments

  • All patients considering In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) (REQUIRED FOR EGG DONATION RECIPIENTS AND EGG DONORS)
  • Short-term, outcome-focused therapy for couples or individuals
  • After a failed ART (assisted reproductive technologies) cycle or recurrent pregnancy loss.
  • When considering Therapeutic Donor Inseminations (TDI ) (REQUIRED)
  • Evaluation and problem identification for outside referral
  • Ending treatment without an ongoing pregnancy or delivery
  • Diagnosis of multiple pregnancy
  • During or after a pregnancy achieved via third party donation
  • During pregnancy after suffering a previous loss

Updated 6/15/06

  Our Counselors:

Michelle Pomarico,
MSW, LICSW, BCD

Gretchen Sewall,
RN, LICSW

 

 

Couseling Programs:

MindBody
TLC