Therapy can be a vital support pillar for those affected by female infertility throughout the entire journey. This training gives invaluable insight into female infertility so that Psychosexual and Relationship Therapists and others have a solid foundation of knowledge on which to build. Key elements include:
- Understanding the different causes of female infertility.
- An overview of how a diagnosis is made and what different treatments are available for female infertility.
- Treatment issues and the role of the therapist.
- How infertility and its issues can affect the couple relationship.
- Understanding reproductive grief and loss.
About the Trainer
Louise Magee began her clinical career in the 1990’s working for Lord Professor Robert Winston at Hammersmith Hospital IVF unit. She gained valuable clinical experience working with in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other assisted reproduction techniques (ART), including intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and embryo biopsy. Louise then retrained and specialised in psychosexual and relationship therapy successfully integrating her embryological knowledge and offering sex, relationship and infertility counselling to clients. She is a general member of COSRT and BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association).
