Caring for Others Doesn’t Mean You Have to Carry Everything Alone

Most healthcare professionals enter medicine because they want to help people during some of the most meaningful moments of their lives. But when your work regularly involves miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, infertility, traumatic births, pregnancy complications, or maternal medical emergencies, the emotional impact can accumulate in ways that are difficult to recognize.

You may remember certain patients years later. You may replay difficult deliveries, wonder whether you could have done something differently, or carry the weight of witnessing profound grief day after day. Many physicians, nurses, midwives, sonographers, fertility providers, mental health professionals, and other members of the reproductive healthcare team experience compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, moral distress, burnout, or vicarious trauma—but often feel they have little space to process these experiences.

Because healthcare professionals are trained to remain composed and continue caring for others, many minimize their own emotional reactions. Yet repeatedly witnessing trauma can affect your emotional well-being, relationships, sleep, confidence, and sense of meaning in your work.

Because my clinical work and research have focused on pregnancy loss, infertility, trauma, and reproductive mental health, I understand many of the unique emotional challenges faced by healthcare professionals working in these settings. My work is informed by years of treating individuals and couples navigating reproductive trauma while collaborating with physicians, nurses, midwives, and other medical professionals.

My approach integrates attachment-based, relational, and emotion-focused psychotherapy to help you understand your emotional responses rather than simply push through them. Together we explore the cumulative impact of repeated exposure to grief and trauma, strengthen emotional resilience, reconnect with the meaning in your work, and reduce the isolation that many healthcare professionals quietly experience.

You may be looking for…

• A therapist who understands reproductive healthcare
• Someone familiar with pregnancy loss and birth trauma
• A confidential space separate from your workplace
• Help processing emotionally difficult patient experiences
• Support for compassion fatigue, burnout, or vicarious trauma
• An attachment-based, relational, and emotion-focused approach
• Therapy that helps you remain compassionate without carrying every patient’s pain alone

For many years I have specialized in the psychological treatment of pregnancy loss, infertility, pregnancy after loss, and reproductive trauma. In addition to working with patients, I regularly collaborate with obstetricians, maternal-fetal medicine physicians, labor and delivery nurses, fertility specialists, midwives, and other professionals caring for families during these experiences. I understand the emotional complexity of this work and the unique challenges of supporting grieving families while continuing to provide compassionate, high-quality care.