ReproMed

Fertility treatments can be challenging. Challenging on the body, on the mind, and equally on your relationship with your partner, spouse or family members. As part of our holistic approach to treatment we are making specialist fertility counselling available to anyone who is finding the process challenging. Our fertility counselling sessions allow patients to speak freely and in confidence to an experienced professional about any aspect of their treatment, or about their worries, stress or anxiety as a result of sub-fertility.

Guidelines from the Irish Fertility Society, the Irish Fertility Counsellors Association, and the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology deem counselling to be a required part of treatment involving the use of donor gametes or surrogacy. In addition to these professional recommendations, we provide specialist fertility counselling because we believe wholeheartedly that it helps to discover and resolve any issues which may be affecting our patients’ experience of fertility treatments.

Issues that may be affecting you whilst you are considering or undergoing treatment include: Feelings of anxiety or stress, a sense of frustration and loss of control, relationship difficulties, feelings of guilt or anger, feeling low, upset, tearful, difficulty making decisions, a sense of being overwhelmed, uncertainty about the future and concerns about implications of treatment.

Natasha O’Sullivan has 5 years experience as a specialist fertility therapist. She has a BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy; Dip in Humanistic Counselling; and a further BICA certificate in fertility counselling. She is a member of IFCA (Irish Fertility Counselling Association) and an accredited counsellor with IACP (Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).

Pauline Whyte also has over 20 + years experience working in fertility. She has a Dip in Psychotherapy, MIACP. She is an accredited Counsellor specialising in fertility.

Your counsellor will work with you to identify and address any underlying issues or concerns you may have. If you would like further sessions you can arrange another appointment whenever it suits you.