What's currently on your mind?
Which topics are you navigating?
Questions around fertility and family building often touch on deeply personal and existential topics — and may be accompanied by conflicting emotions, difficult decisions, and interpersonal challenges. In my counselling sessions, I offer you — individually or as a couple — a safe and trusting space to explore your thoughts and concerns.
So that you can move through this life phase with greater strength, confidence, and new perspectives
Unsure about having children
Sometimes the decision whether or not to have a child isn’t clear. You might be asking yourself: Do I want children at all? Or: Do we really want (or not want) another child? Many thoughts and questions may arise – and they deserve time, space, and care to be explored in a calm and reflective setting.
- Wishes, doubts & fears related to parenting roles and responsibilities
- Openness to change
- Considerations about the 'right' time
- Life planning and priorities
- Career versus family
- Social freezing as an option
Starting a queer family
For many in the LGBTQIA+ community, having a family with children is a deeply cherished desire. The path to parenthood can come with unique considerations and challenges for queer people. I support you in reflecting on your questions and experiences within an open and respectful space, helping you to explore and reframe them.
- Alternative paths to queer parenthood
- Options and challenges for lesbian couples
- Family building for trans* and non-binary individuals
- Legal aspects of sperm donation, co-parenting, etc.
- Living as a rainbow family
- Fears, prejudices & discrimination
Struggling with fertility
When getting pregnant just doesn’t happen or infertility has been diagnosed, it often feels like a world is collapsing. How do you cope with the intensity of your emotions; or with the reactions of others? And: How do we move forward? What options do we have?
- Questioning your body and self-worth & dealing with guilt
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Unfulfilled longing & shattered dreams
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Tunnel vision & loss of perspective
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External expectations and reactions
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Weighing medical options and their limitations
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Making decisions & taking next steps
Considering donor conception
Sperm, egg, or embryo donation can bring up many questions and emotions for couples and single parents-to-be. I offer supportive psychosocial counselling on gamete donation (BKiD-certified) and can also provide a counselling confirmation for your fertility clinic if needed.
- Dealing with uncertainty, grief & shame
- Meaning of genetic vs. social parenthood
- Private sperm donation vs. sperm bankSuche nach Samenbank & Samenspender
- Searching for a sperm bank & donor
- Legal framework & regulations
- Reactions from family & friends
- Telling your (future) child they're donor conceived
- Future contact with the gamete donor
Going through fertility treatment
The period of fertility treatment is often marked by great hopes — but also by fears and uncertainties. During this challenging phase, I offer you a safe space to process your emotions and find helpful ways to cope with the stresses involved.
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Caught up in the tide of medicine & clinical routine
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Burdened bodies
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Uncertainty & helpless waiting
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Torn between hope & doubt
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Failures & setbacks
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Disappointments & resignation
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Emotional & financial limits
Relationship challenges
An unfulfilled desire to have children can place great strain on your relationship. When emotional or physical closeness begins to fade, when differing needs lead to disappointment, or when communication becomes difficult, I support you in strengthening your connection as a couple.
- “Preoccupation with fertility in everyday life and talks”
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Strained couple communication
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Misunderstandings & emotional hurt
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Diverging needs, desires, expectations, and perspectives
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Changing sexual dynamics
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Longing for support, trust, and closeness
Men's perspectives
Men often face their own specific challenges when dealing with an unfulfilled desire to have children — for example around masculinity, responsibility, or feelings of helplessness. These are issues that not only concern the men themselves, but also their partners, who wish to better understand what they are going through.
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Being diagnosed with infertility
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Questions around identity & masculinity
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Sperm donation and emotional conflict
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Feelings of helplessness and guilt
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Overwhelmed by the role of supporter
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Responsibility and expectations
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Differing ways of coping & managing
Letting go & alternatives
When the desire to have children remains unfulfilled, questions often arise about how to move forward. I provide understanding support to accompany you through grief and loss, while also helping you explore alternatives and develop new life perspectives.
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Coping with grief & loss
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Accepting the end of the fertility journey
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Coming to terms with childlessness
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Finding fulfillment without children
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Opening up to new life perspectives and goals
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Considering alternative family models
How we come together
Would you like to find out more about me and my approach? Or find out whether I'm the right person to support you with your fertility concerns? We can gladly discuss these and any other questions via e-mail or in a free initial consultation on the phone.
Are you interested in a counselling session or coaching? In person in Frankfurt or online via video? Here you can find out more about the formats, booking appointments and costs.
