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“Do you have kids?”
This common intake question is intended to gather information, forge connection, and build context around your clients’ lives.
But for your clients experiencing infertility, it is a major trigger. And it activates the grief and isolation inherent in involuntary childlessness.
As more individuals start their families at older ages and the presence of reproductive challenges increases, trauma and grief related to infertility will show up in more therapy practices.
Don’t let therapy be a place where clients coping with current or previous infertility feel further stigmatized.
Watch Dr. Loree Johnson, LMFT, fertility counselling and reproductive trauma expert, for this dynamic one-day training that will give you the skills you need to help your clients process infertility grief and trauma and related inadequacy beliefs, negative self-worth, shame, worry, irritability, depression, body issues, and relationship conflict. Using the lens of cultural humility, you’ll learn strategies to:
• Ask the right questions to get to the heart of your clients’ infertility experience
• Intervene with individuals and couples using EMDR-based skills, somatic and emotion-focused techniques, and more
• Assess your clients’ intersectional identity to contextualize their reproductive story
• Utilize the dual process model to support grief at all life stages
Packed with case studies, exercises, and compelling self-reflections for the therapist, this training will give you skills to meet the growing need for support around infertility so you can help clients navigate the myriad of heartbreaks they face.
Purchase today!
Planning Committee Disclosure - Relevant relationships
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Infertility Grief and Trauma (7.45 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Infertility Grief and Trauma - French (7.45 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Infertility Grief and Trauma - Italian (7.45 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Infertility Grief and Trauma - German (7.45 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Infertility Grief and Trauma - Spanish (7.45 MB) | 74 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Loree Johnson, PhD, LMFT, graduated from Syracuse University with a master’s and doctorate in marriage and family therapy. Inspired by one of the first mental health programs to weave the basic tenets of social justice into the field of family therapy, she started her career in community mental health and now works in private practice in Hermosa Beach, CA. As a result of her reproductive story, Dr. Johnson sought training in fertility counseling and trauma-informed reproductive mental health. She is certified in EMDR. Dr. Johnson has been an active member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for more than 20 years and has served in various board positions at the state and national levels. She served as a member of the Anti-Racism Task Force for the Mental Health Professionals Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. In addition to reproductive psychology, Dr. Johnson is passionate about therapists and reducing disparities in the infertility and loss communities that impact access to treatment, care, and outcomes.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Loree Johnson maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Loree Johnson is a member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and the EMDR International Association.
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