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You're doing everything right, and it's still this hard.
Nobody warns you what IVF actually costs — not just financially, but the toll of the injections, the appointments built around a calendar you don't control, the two-week wait, the way a text from a friend announcing her pregnancy can knock the wind out of you even though you're happy for her. Or maybe it's not IVF yet — it's the miscarriages, the unexplained infertility, the diagnosis you didn't see coming, like endometriosis or PCOS. Either way, you're carrying something most people around you haven't lived through, which makes it hard to even know who to talk to about it.
You don't have to carry it by yourself, and you're not doing anything wrong by needing support for it.
What changes when this works:
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The anxiety and dread around appointments and results gets more manageable, not louder.
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You have somewhere to put the grief instead of setting it aside to keep functioning.
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Your relationship has room for both of you to struggle, instead of one person holding it together for two.
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You have language for what you're going through, instead of just getting through it.
What working together actually looks like
Starting therapy for something this personal can feel like one more thing to manage. You're probably wondering what you'd even say, whether it'll actually help, or whether talking about it just makes it more real. Those are fair questions, and you don't need to have them figured out before we start.
The work moves in three stages, roughly:
First, we get oriented. What's actually happened, where you are in the process now, what you're hoping changes.
Then, we look for the pattern. Where the anxiety spikes, what you're avoiding, what's not being said out loud — often to your partner as much as to me.
Then, we build from there. Practical tools for the appointments and the waiting, and space to process what the losses actually meant, not just manage the symptoms of them.
The approach depends on what you need:
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EMDR — for processing a specific loss or traumatic event that keeps resurfacing, so it stops having the same grip on your day-to-day.
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Mindfulness-based CBT — practical tools for the appointments, the waiting, the moments that spike your anxiety without warning.
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DBT — when the emotional swings feel bigger than you can manage in the moment; skills for regulating, not suppressing.
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Gottman Method — when the strain is showing up between you and your partner, not just in you.
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IFS (Internal Family Systems) — for when part of you is grieving and part of you has to hold it together for work, for your partner, for the next appointment. IFS gives both parts somewhere to go instead of one shutting the other out.
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Hi, I’m Rebekah Yigael!
I specialize in trauma therapy for women navigating miscarriage, infertility, IVF, and reproductive loss — work I understand from the inside, not just from training. My focus is helping you process what's happened, not just manage the symptoms of it, so it doesn't keep surfacing in the middle of an appointment, an argument, or a quiet Tuesday for no obvious reason.
I also work with women through other major transitions — new motherhood, career and identity shifts, anxiety and burnout, divorce — using the same trauma-informed approach.