Therapy for Involuntary Childlessness
Embodied Empowered Counseling Services provides specialized support for women while are experiencing involuntary childlessness in Tempe, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and throughout Arizona.
What is Involuntary Childlessness?
Involuntary Childlessness (or Childfree Not By Choice) is an experience lived by those who would have desired to become parents but were unable to do so after experiences such as a diagnosis of infertility, a reproductive trauma, or attempts to build their family that did not result in parenthood.
Why Do Childless Women Seek Therapy?
Women who are navigating reproductive trauma, such as involuntary childlessness, often feel unheard, unsupported, and unacknowledged. They face incredibly difficult decisions in combination with complex, often overwhelming, emotions that make it difficult to fully process the experiences they have gone through. Oftentimes this results in longer term experiences with anxiety, indecision, and self-blame.
Therapy provides support to women as they process the emotions that have been a part of their reproductive journeys and build clarity about what it looks like to move forward as a woman living a life without children. An important part of the healing process is finding fulfillment and purpose outside of fertility treatments or raising children of your own. We will work together to address feelings of anxiety, shame, powerlessness, and self-doubt so that you are empowered to work towards your reproductive goals in a way that feels authentic to you.
My Approach to Working With Women Experiencing Childlessness
I come into this work with an understanding that my clients often have dreams and desires of being parents that have been present as early as they can remember and know that the significant loss of involuntary childlessness will have a profound impact on the hopes and goals that you had for your future. I view therapy for Involuntary Childlessness as a journey of healing and self-discovery. We will work together to understand the impacts of your reproductive story and create an empowered, authentic vision of your future. Whether you are considering making a choice not to have children or are already experiencing involuntary childlessness, I would be honored to support you on your journey.
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I understand that the concerns bringing you into counseling are impacting the vision you have of yourself and your future. We will work together to address feelings of anxiety, shame, powerlessness, and self-doubt so that you can process through your experiences in a way that feels authentic to you.