Meet Stefanie

When I was building my own family, I searched for someone like me and came up empty-handed. Medically, we were in the very best of hands. Emotionally, we were on our own.

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So I built it myself.

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That is the reason I do this work. I've seen some of my clients for years - since before they knew if they'd ever have a family of their own. I've seen them through the unknowns of fertility treatments, the specific hell of pregnancy after loss, all the way up to the chaos of raising two and even three kids in our years together. Being a piece of their story might be the very best part of my job. I just wish someone like me had existed for me, years before I had to become her.

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I work with the emotional side of building a family: IVF, donor conception, pregnancy loss, and the paths nobody signs up for but plenty of people end up on. My clients are usually high-achievers, holding it together everywhere except on the inside. They don't need someone telling them to stay positive. They need someone who already gets it, without having to explain everything first.

With over a decade of clinical experience, I've worked with individuals and couples across backgrounds, ages, and orientations, in Chicago and nationally. I'm a preferred mental health partner for CCRM Chicago, with a co-located practice inside the clinic that puts therapy right alongside the medical care. I led a team of reproductive mental health specialists, developed evidence-based programming in this space, and coordinate regularly with reproductive endocrinologists, reproductive attorneys, nutritionists, and third-party reproduction specialists.