Infertility Therapists in San Francisco, CA
Amanda Grumet
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT, APCC, DMA
1 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94114
I love working with individual clients from teens to elders. It is a privilege to have a person's trust. I love to help clients in their 20's adjust to new independence after college and discover their passions and triumph over anxiety. I also enjoy helping adults over 65 manage life adjustments and build resilience. I very much value working with families and couples to resolve conflict and make decisions. I like to help clients improve romantic relationships, conflict with colleagues at work, and family dynamics. I speak multiple languages and am drawn to helping clients understand cultural differences in couples and families.
I love working with individual clients from teens to elders. It is a privilege to have a person's trust. I love to help clients in their 20's adjust to new independence after college and discover their passions and triumph over anxiety. I also enjoy helping adults over 65 manage life adjustments and build resilience. I very much value working with families and couples to resolve conflict and make decisions. I like to help clients improve romantic relationships, conflict with colleagues at work, and family dynamics. I speak multiple languages and am drawn to helping clients understand cultural differences in couples and families.
Specializing in life stressors, grief, self-esteem, and cultural identities, I provide compassionate support for individuals facing challenges. We'll work together to cultivate understanding, heal, and develop coping strategies. I create a safe, inclusive space where all aspects of yourself are embraced. You're the expert of your experience, and I'm here to listen and guide you.
Specializing in life stressors, grief, self-esteem, and cultural identities, I provide compassionate support for individuals facing challenges. We'll work together to cultivate understanding, heal, and develop coping strategies. I create a safe, inclusive space where all aspects of yourself are embraced. You're the expert of your experience, and I'm here to listen and guide you.
LMFT with Perinatal Mental Health Certification and specialized perinatal training: Postpartum Support International's Advanced Perinatal Psychotherapy Training, Covington Fertility Counseling postgraduate course, reproductive trauma certification, and advanced EMDR for birth trauma and infertility.
Whether you are trying to conceive, navigating pregnancy, recovering from birth, or adjusting to early motherhood, I specialize in perinatal mental health for women and couples. My work spans (in)fertility, pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, postpartum depression and anxiety, and the emotional demands of early parenthood. Many of my clients are high-achieving women navigating career pressure, identity shifts, and a profound loss of control. I also have specialized training in EMDR for birth trauma.
LMFT with Perinatal Mental Health Certification and specialized perinatal training: Postpartum Support International's Advanced Perinatal Psychotherapy Training, Covington Fertility Counseling postgraduate course, reproductive trauma certification, and advanced EMDR for birth trauma and infertility.
Whether you are trying to conceive, navigating pregnancy, recovering from birth, or adjusting to early motherhood, I specialize in perinatal mental health for women and couples. My work spans (in)fertility, pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, postpartum depression and anxiety, and the emotional demands of early parenthood. Many of my clients are high-achieving women navigating career pressure, identity shifts, and a profound loss of control. I also have specialized training in EMDR for birth trauma.
Sarah MCLaughlin LMFT & Associates
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
5 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94118
Sarah is Perinatal Mental Health Certified and able to support around infertility and loss, (incl.
We are a Holistic Psychotherapy Practice. We take the whole person into account and are knowledgeable as mind-body practitioners. Together we hold yoga teacher training, behavioral nutrition, personal training and hypnotherapy credentials in addition to our Psychotherapy credentials. We specialize in Anxiety, OCD and Perinatal support. We see women who are struggling more than the people around them realize. Self-sufficient, successful doers who are on a constant hamster wheel of anxiety, juggling one hundred invisible plates and unsure how to stop or slow down without dropping everything.
Sarah is Perinatal Mental Health Certified and able to support around infertility and loss, (incl.
We are a Holistic Psychotherapy Practice. We take the whole person into account and are knowledgeable as mind-body practitioners. Together we hold yoga teacher training, behavioral nutrition, personal training and hypnotherapy credentials in addition to our Psychotherapy credentials. We specialize in Anxiety, OCD and Perinatal support. We see women who are struggling more than the people around them realize. Self-sufficient, successful doers who are on a constant hamster wheel of anxiety, juggling one hundred invisible plates and unsure how to stop or slow down without dropping everything.
If you are suffering with food & body image issues, issues of self-esteem & self-worth, relationship issues or dealing with trauma, I can help you. There are so many women who feel as though they are not enough. They believe that they somehow have to be better, look different, lose weight, be a whole different person to have a good relationship and a happy life. They beat themselves up constantly and are always trying to change. Do you understand this feeling? If so, I can help you have a loving relationship with yourself and settle into who you really are.
If you are suffering with food & body image issues, issues of self-esteem & self-worth, relationship issues or dealing with trauma, I can help you. There are so many women who feel as though they are not enough. They believe that they somehow have to be better, look different, lose weight, be a whole different person to have a good relationship and a happy life. They beat themselves up constantly and are always trying to change. Do you understand this feeling? If so, I can help you have a loving relationship with yourself and settle into who you really are.
I also have a specialty in infertility, neo-natal loss, family building and post-partum depression.
If you are feeling overwhelmed with difficult life circumstances, we can work together to define challenges and find solutions. I am an interactive, down-to-earth therapist. I find the resilience of people to be truly inspiring. I believe therapy can help to resolve life crises, restore hope and guide you towards living a more fulfilling life. With renewed inspiration, energy and clarity, you can heal and overcome your challenges. With over 15 years of experience, I have helped many people move forward with their lives.
I also have a specialty in infertility, neo-natal loss, family building and post-partum depression.
If you are feeling overwhelmed with difficult life circumstances, we can work together to define challenges and find solutions. I am an interactive, down-to-earth therapist. I find the resilience of people to be truly inspiring. I believe therapy can help to resolve life crises, restore hope and guide you towards living a more fulfilling life. With renewed inspiration, energy and clarity, you can heal and overcome your challenges. With over 15 years of experience, I have helped many people move forward with their lives.
Additionally, I support individuals and couples through the emotional aspects of infertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, and postpartum.
My aim is to help you feel more like yourself. That might look like less anxiety, a lighter mood, or a greater sense of calm and clarity. We work together to understand what is driving your experience and to support real change. The connection we build is an important part of that process. I am active and present in sessions. I help you slow things down, stay with what matters, and find your way through it. You know yourself best. I respect your experience and support you in reconnecting with your own strength and direction.
Additionally, I support individuals and couples through the emotional aspects of infertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, and postpartum.
My aim is to help you feel more like yourself. That might look like less anxiety, a lighter mood, or a greater sense of calm and clarity. We work together to understand what is driving your experience and to support real change. The connection we build is an important part of that process. I am active and present in sessions. I help you slow things down, stay with what matters, and find your way through it. You know yourself best. I respect your experience and support you in reconnecting with your own strength and direction.
I support women and couples through the emotional challenges of infertility, pregnancy and postpartum, and the parenting transition.
I help new moms navigate the profound changes experienced in the postpartum adjustment. I also work with individuals and couples who are building families through assisted reproduction and third-party family building, helping them to understand and embrace being a donor-created family.
I support women and couples through the emotional challenges of infertility, pregnancy and postpartum, and the parenting transition.
I help new moms navigate the profound changes experienced in the postpartum adjustment. I also work with individuals and couples who are building families through assisted reproduction and third-party family building, helping them to understand and embrace being a donor-created family.
I work with individuals navigating infertility, romantic relationship challenges, and career stress.
I draw from attachment theory, mindfulness, self-compassion, and inner child work. I bring high energy, curiosity, and humor to sessions, offering honest, direct feedback when it matters. You will feel encouraged to step beyond your comfort zone, as that is where real breakthroughs happen.
I work with individuals navigating infertility, romantic relationship challenges, and career stress.
I draw from attachment theory, mindfulness, self-compassion, and inner child work. I bring high energy, curiosity, and humor to sessions, offering honest, direct feedback when it matters. You will feel encouraged to step beyond your comfort zone, as that is where real breakthroughs happen.
If you are considering adopting or placing your child for adoption, navigating infertility, building your family, or adjusting to life after adoption, you don't have to do it alone.
Specialties include:
- Adoption counseling across the lifespan
- Infertility and family-building
- Open adoption relationships
- Birth parent counseling/support
- Adoptive parent support
- Adult adoptee counseling
- Adoption reunion
- Adoption Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact Agreements (PACAs)
- Stepparent and second-parent adoption Investations
If you are considering adopting or placing your child for adoption, navigating infertility, building your family, or adjusting to life after adoption, you don't have to do it alone.
Specialties include:
- Adoption counseling across the lifespan
- Infertility and family-building
- Open adoption relationships
- Birth parent counseling/support
- Adoptive parent support
- Adult adoptee counseling
- Adoption reunion
- Adoption Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact Agreements (PACAs)
- Stepparent and second-parent adoption Investations
You may look like you’re doing just fine on the outside, while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or just tired of being in your own head. You want to feel more present in your life, trust yourself, and actually enjoy the life you’ve worked hard to build. Maybe you overthink decisions, replay conversations, put a lot of pressure on yourself, or have a hard time switching off. I work with women navigating anxiety, perfectionism, OCD, burnout, fertility challenges, and the identity shifts that can come with motherhood, relationships, and work. Life doesn’t have to feel so exhausting and hard, there are ways to feel better.
You may look like you’re doing just fine on the outside, while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or just tired of being in your own head. You want to feel more present in your life, trust yourself, and actually enjoy the life you’ve worked hard to build. Maybe you overthink decisions, replay conversations, put a lot of pressure on yourself, or have a hard time switching off. I work with women navigating anxiety, perfectionism, OCD, burnout, fertility challenges, and the identity shifts that can come with motherhood, relationships, and work. Life doesn’t have to feel so exhausting and hard, there are ways to feel better.
My interest and expertise has focused on: 1) Perinatal Mental Health (pregnancy, loss, infertility, and postpartum), 2) Couples Work (particularly grappling with issues of monogamy), and 3) Long-term Individual Psychotherapy (struggles with relationships, creativity, and being in touch with your true self).
My theoretical orientation is psychodynamic and relational: I believe in the importance of relationships, including ours, as part of the healing. The therapeutic relationship is one of the most important factors for effective treatment. I delight in supporting individuals during life's transitional moments: changes in parenthood, relationship, job, or move.
My interest and expertise has focused on: 1) Perinatal Mental Health (pregnancy, loss, infertility, and postpartum), 2) Couples Work (particularly grappling with issues of monogamy), and 3) Long-term Individual Psychotherapy (struggles with relationships, creativity, and being in touch with your true self).
My theoretical orientation is psychodynamic and relational: I believe in the importance of relationships, including ours, as part of the healing. The therapeutic relationship is one of the most important factors for effective treatment. I delight in supporting individuals during life's transitional moments: changes in parenthood, relationship, job, or move.
I provide support for family building challenges including infertility, assisted and third-party reproduction, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, adjustment to parenthood, and parenting NICU babies and medically ill children.
Bloom Therapy specializes in women's mental health across the lifespan. Women face unique stressors in their relationships and career, and experience anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress at twice the rate of men. I offer a compassionate, evidence-based approach to address these challenges and help you reach your goals. My work focuses on building strengths, enhancing self-confidence, and empowering you with knowledge and tools so that you can thrive in your relationships, work, and life.
I provide support for family building challenges including infertility, assisted and third-party reproduction, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, adjustment to parenthood, and parenting NICU babies and medically ill children.
Bloom Therapy specializes in women's mental health across the lifespan. Women face unique stressors in their relationships and career, and experience anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress at twice the rate of men. I offer a compassionate, evidence-based approach to address these challenges and help you reach your goals. My work focuses on building strengths, enhancing self-confidence, and empowering you with knowledge and tools so that you can thrive in your relationships, work, and life.
The patients I most often see are struggling with depression, general anxiety, panic, OCD, romantic and family relationships, parenting, infertility, pregnancy or perinatal loss and/or other difficult life circumstances.
I believe therapy should feel like a genuine conversation where you feel truly seen and understood. I’m an engaged, collaborative therapist who will listen, ask thoughtful questions, share my perspective, and work alongside you to help you make sense of what you’re experiencing. My goal is for therapy to feel supportive and comfortable.
The patients I most often see are struggling with depression, general anxiety, panic, OCD, romantic and family relationships, parenting, infertility, pregnancy or perinatal loss and/or other difficult life circumstances.
I believe therapy should feel like a genuine conversation where you feel truly seen and understood. I’m an engaged, collaborative therapist who will listen, ask thoughtful questions, share my perspective, and work alongside you to help you make sense of what you’re experiencing. My goal is for therapy to feel supportive and comfortable.
Anastasia Holland
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT, APCC
1 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94114
I work with individuals, couples, and families to cultivate resilience, joy, and connection to themselves and others as they navigate life’s challenges. I believe therapy works best when it’s anchored in an authentic therapeutic relationship, and my aim is for you to leave each session with something tangible to carry with you — tools, insights, and sustainable shifts that foster real change. I bring warmth, humor, intellect, and a grounded approach to my sessions.
I work with individuals, couples, and families to cultivate resilience, joy, and connection to themselves and others as they navigate life’s challenges. I believe therapy works best when it’s anchored in an authentic therapeutic relationship, and my aim is for you to leave each session with something tangible to carry with you — tools, insights, and sustainable shifts that foster real change. I bring warmth, humor, intellect, and a grounded approach to my sessions.
I'm a certified perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C) with 20+ years of experience and my own history with infertility and parenthood.
You're trying to get pregnant, stay pregnant, or adjust after birth, and your nervous system is exhausted. Waiting between cycles, navigating IVF, or living after loss brings grief, anger, and a constant monitoring of your body you can't turn off. In the postpartum months, sleep disruption, intrusive thoughts, feeding decisions, and partner strain leave you feeling alone or unsure of yourself. You might be an LGBTQ+ family navigating donor conception or queer pregnancy. Or a parent in the thick of it, wondering who you are now that everything has changed.
I'm a certified perinatal mental health specialist (PMH-C) with 20+ years of experience and my own history with infertility and parenthood.
You're trying to get pregnant, stay pregnant, or adjust after birth, and your nervous system is exhausted. Waiting between cycles, navigating IVF, or living after loss brings grief, anger, and a constant monitoring of your body you can't turn off. In the postpartum months, sleep disruption, intrusive thoughts, feeding decisions, and partner strain leave you feeling alone or unsure of yourself. You might be an LGBTQ+ family navigating donor conception or queer pregnancy. Or a parent in the thick of it, wondering who you are now that everything has changed.
Selena Emily Mitchell
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
2 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94118
Life doesn't always feel within our control, especially during times of transition, grief, uncertainty, or major change. I work with individuals and couples moving through difficult transitions, processing loss, adjusting to the unexpected, and finding their footing through seasons of change. Together, we create space to make sense of these experiences and reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose. My approach is depth-oriented, drawing on modalities like Internal Family Systems and Somatic Psychotherapy to help you understand yourself more fully and move toward healing.
Life doesn't always feel within our control, especially during times of transition, grief, uncertainty, or major change. I work with individuals and couples moving through difficult transitions, processing loss, adjusting to the unexpected, and finding their footing through seasons of change. Together, we create space to make sense of these experiences and reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning and purpose. My approach is depth-oriented, drawing on modalities like Internal Family Systems and Somatic Psychotherapy to help you understand yourself more fully and move toward healing.
The decision to start psychotherapy is significant as it often means that you are suffering in some way or you've realized that what you have been doing is no longer working, and you are seeking change in your life. As your therapist, I will help you find meaning in the connections of your story and the patterns of your relationships, as well as discover and challenge your conflicts, assumptions and limitations. Through this exploration, you will be able to know yourself more deeply and live with more freedom, possibility, joy and self-understanding. My approach is collaborative, warm, and authentic.
The decision to start psychotherapy is significant as it often means that you are suffering in some way or you've realized that what you have been doing is no longer working, and you are seeking change in your life. As your therapist, I will help you find meaning in the connections of your story and the patterns of your relationships, as well as discover and challenge your conflicts, assumptions and limitations. Through this exploration, you will be able to know yourself more deeply and live with more freedom, possibility, joy and self-understanding. My approach is collaborative, warm, and authentic.
Finding the right therapist can be a challenge. Some people seek therapy to resolve long-standing issues that have become unmanageable, and others are in the midst of crises that require immediate attention. I tailor my approach to therapy in each case, but always prioritize nurturing a safe and authentic connection with you.
Finding the right therapist can be a challenge. Some people seek therapy to resolve long-standing issues that have become unmanageable, and others are in the midst of crises that require immediate attention. I tailor my approach to therapy in each case, but always prioritize nurturing a safe and authentic connection with you.
If you are grieving a miscarriage or going through infertility, you might feel like you'll never be the same.
With over ten years of experience, I provide a calm, steady space where you can be truly heard. I specialize in helping parents move through the pain of infertility and postpartum depression using advanced tools like EMDR and Brainspotting. These methods help your brain and body finally let go of the heavy emotions so you can feel like yourself again.
If you are grieving a miscarriage or going through infertility, you might feel like you'll never be the same.
With over ten years of experience, I provide a calm, steady space where you can be truly heard. I specialize in helping parents move through the pain of infertility and postpartum depression using advanced tools like EMDR and Brainspotting. These methods help your brain and body finally let go of the heavy emotions so you can feel like yourself again.
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FAQ - Therapy for Infertility
How can infertility affect couples and their relationship?
Clients who are dealing with infertility may experience conflict and communication problems. It’s not unusual for shame, blame, and guilt to arise in cases of infertility, whether the source of the problem is one partner or both. This means that clients are upset and pulling away from their partner just when they need them the most. Some clients may find it difficult to spend time around friends and family who are pregnant. Friends and family can also make hurtful comments that increase tension during this time.
How does therapy for infertility issues work?
The therapist will begin by gathering information about the client or couple and make a treatment plan for their specific concerns. In addition to addressing common mental health issues, such as anxiety, depression, and trauma reactions or PTSD, therapists can help clients improve their decision-making and deal with stressors unique to infertility. Some examples include coping with the “two-week wait” before a pregnancy test, the distress associated with a failed attempt or miscarriage, and the shame and blame sometimes associated with reproductive concerns.
What type of therapy is best for infertility issues?
Many therapists offer psychotherapy for individuals and couples who are dealing with infertility issues. Some helpful therapeutic approaches include cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which can aid clients in reframing negative thoughts about their situation. Expressive writing and art therapy can help clients process difficult feelings. Clients might also benefit from group therapy to experience support from others who are dealing with the same problems.
How long does therapy for infertility issues take?
There is no set length for therapy that addresses infertility or reproductive concerns. Some clients might find it helpful to continue therapy during their pregnancy to have healthy ways to cope with any associated stress, anxiety, depression, or trauma. Some clients who decide not to pursue fertility treatments might benefit from the support of a therapist. The duration of therapy varies depending on the individual client’s specific needs and goals.