Fertility Counselling

Fertility Counseling

Couples trying to conceive experience an extremely turbulent journey emotionally.  Fertility treatment is an intricate process and counselling can assist couple in coping any emotional challenges, fears and anxieties. Fertility counselling provides additional medical support in understanding the process during crucial cycles like IVF treatment failures. These obstructions can sometimes intensify negative feelings therefore fertility counselling helps in boosting the chances of conception.

Role of Counseling:

Infertility is considered as major social stigma even in today’s society and therefore can take a toll on the life of a couple battling it. Infertility can torment the couple and cause depression.  An efficient fertility treatment incorporated counselling to help couples and individuals explore their thought, feelings and beliefs.

Reasons for opting fertility counselling:

Coping with infertility is a burdensome task. It is imperative for a couple to seek professional assistance when they are struggling with infertility. One should opt for counselling when:

 

  • When one feels that infertility is causing sadness, depression or anxiety and any other mental health issue. In certain cases couples are able to cope up without any help however couple who find it overwhelming should seek help of a counsellor.
  • When a couple feels that infertility is affecting their relationship with each other, family, friends, etc. opting for join counselling can be beneficial
  • When the couple feels indecisive or confused in making decision regarding infertility treatment, adoption, etc. counselling can help the couple in making an informed decision.
  • When a couple is considering options like surrogacy, or adoption, it becomes difficult to treat infertility. It is recommended to have a discussion about sperm donation, egg donation, process and implication of adoption etc. professional help and advice can be very impactful in making such decisions.

Counseling:

Counselling can be beneficial in many ways by not only helping the couples cope with stress and depression but also assisting them in sorting options. Counselling provides an opportunity to explore any emotional pain that couples experience.  Fertility counselling is a component of our patient care.  Our well qualified counsellors are available for you so that you can express your feelings, fear and anxieties in a secured environment. At Sangita, counselling is consistently offered before, during and after the treatment. We at Sangita ensure you and your partner don’t have to go through this journey without help.

Implications counselling:

Implications counselling helps to understand the consequences of the proposed course of treatment for the couple, and the future child. The aim of implications counselling is considering welfare and needs of the future child and understanding variety of issues that may affect the couple.

Implications counselling is imperative when the couple is using a donated sperm, or eggs or embryos or in cases of donor assisted conception.  Counselling highlights concerns like feelings of each partner regarding the treatment, effects of the proposed treatment, openness and secrecy, etc. Implications counselling is generally done before the procedure so that the couple can decide how to proceed. However further sessions can be arranged at a later stage as well.

Support counselling:

Fertility treatment is a substantial procedure and it can affect the couple’s relationship with others as well.  Support counselling assists the couple in express their feelings and addressing concerns with relationship issues with partners, family and friends.  It can help in coping strategies for adjusting to conflicting and intense emotions. Support counselling sheds light on short and long term effects of infertility and its treatment.  The couple might need support at any point of the treatment therefore they can access counselling at any time before, during and after the treatment.

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