Expert Counsellors to Guide Your Fertility Journey
Our experienced infertility counsellors play a vital role and can offer you a positive experience and independent support. For any patients using donor services, attending two counselling sessions is a requirement prior to treatment.
Why is IVF Counselling Essential?
Infertility and IVF Counselling is an important part of fertility treatment offering support during what can be an emotionally complex journey. Everyone will deal with the emotional aspects of fertility treatment in different ways and it’s not uncommon to experience feelings of anxiety, stress or isolation along the way. These emotions can affect your personal relationships with others, yourself, and your outlook on life. Managing these emotions can be difficult and each person will respond in their own way which is why support from an infertility counsellor can be so valuable.
Meet Our Experienced IVF Counsellors
City Fertility have a trusted network of experienced infertility counsellors near you, all qualified with ANZICA qualifications. Our team can help you connect with the right counsellor for your needs.
Explore our available infertility counsellors here.
How We Support Your Journey
Our counsellors can help you emotionally prepare for treatment and manage feelings of stress, anxiety, hope and isolation. They can help you deal with feelings around treatment, your friends who are falling pregnant and having babies, handling unwanted questions and deciding how much to share with others. IVF counsellors will help you gain a greater sense of control and provide you with specific coping strategies.
There are many significant decisions on a fertility journey. Our experienced infertility counsellors can help you with decisions around the management of treatment, stored gametes and embryos or how to deal with treatment outcomes you might not anticipate or desireYour fertility specialist will closely monitor your ovarian response during the stimulation phase with ultrasounds and/or blood tests. This is important as medications may be adjusted to control the size and amount of follicles.
Individuals pursuing fertility treatments that involve the use of donated gametes (eggs or sperm) or embryos will require two sessions of implications counselling before starting treatment. This type of counselling is designed to help donors of gametes or embryos, and recipients, to understand the psychosocial and ethical implications of treatment, their rights and responsibilities and any legal considerations.
Research has not proven that fertility drugs increase breast, ovarian or uterine cancer risk. However, women who have never been pregnant have a naturally higher risk of breast or ovarian cancer.
FAQs
01 What is fertility counselling?
Fertility counselling provides emotional support and guidance throughout treatment, helping individuals or couples manage stress, grief, expectations, and decision-making during their fertility journey.
02 What are the different types of infertility counselling
Types include individual counselling, couples counselling, donor conception counselling, decision-making support, and post-treatment counselling for coping with outcomes or next steps.
03 How do counsellors help a couple during infertility?
An infertility counsellor supports couples by improving communication, easing emotional distress, and helping them navigate treatment decisions and relationship challenges with compassion and clarity.
Complimentary counselling at City Fertility
At City Fertility, you can benefit from one complimentary counselling session during each stimulated cycle. We encourage you (and your partner, if applicable) to access our counselling services at any time at any stage of your journey if you feel you need extra support