Therapy for LGBTQ+ Family Building
Building a family can be a deeply meaningful journey, but it often comes with emotional, physical, legal, and financial complexities that others may not fully understand.
The process can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially when navigating medical systems, societal assumptions, and the many decisions that come with fertility treatments, surrogacy, donor conception, or adoption.
Whether you're pursuing parenthood with a partner or on your own, the emotional toll can be profound. It may reshape your sense of identity, connection, and stability.
You may be considering a variety of paths to parenthood: donor sperm or eggs, reciprocal IVF, surrogacy, or adoption.
Even when you're clear on your direction, you might still need space to process the emotional impact, navigate relationship issues, or find support through the uncertainty.
How Therapy Can Help
While navigating your family building process, therapy offers a space where you don’t have to explain, educate others, or carry the weight alone.
Here, you’ll have someone to sit with you in the complexity—someone who understands that this path can be layered with hope, stress, joy, grief, and uncertainty, often all at once.
You’ll have space to speak freely about what you’re facing, whether that’s the strain of medical procedures, the impact of legal or systemic barriers, or the sting of intrusive questions from people who may not understand your journey.
Therapy isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about having a place to be fully yourself, to explore what family means to you, and to be supported as you make the choices that feel right—whether you’re just starting to consider your options, actively building your family, or processing a loss.
Over time, therapy can help you feel more centered, more connected to yourself and your values, and more prepared to move forward.
You don’t have to do this alone. As a licensed psychotherapist and certified perinatal mental health specialist with more than 20 years of experience, I’m here to offer affirming care, specialized support, and a space that honors all of your journey.
