BEGIN YOUR WELLNESS JOURNEY.
fertility counseling services
Sometimes the path to becoming a parent is not the simple journey we expected or hoped for. Infertility and pregnancy loss can impact any or every dimension of your life – your physical and mental health, intimate relationships, family relationships, friendships, your work life, and your finances. Those experiencing infertility or pregnancy loss often feel ‘out of sync’ with their age cohort, leaving them feeling left out and lonely. Whether you are struggling with infertility and/or pregnancy losses, or you find yourself in a position of deciding to build your family in a different way, Carol can offer you ways to navigate this journey with guidance, understanding, and support.
Carol offers the following:
Infertility counseling (individuals, couples, LGBTQI individuals & couples)
Consultations for recipients of donor egg, donor sperm, donor embryo, and/or those using a gestational carrier (couples, singles, LGBTQI individuals & couples)
Evaluations for egg donors or gestational carriers
grief, loss & transition
Loss takes many forms, from death or job loss to illness or finding yourself a parent of an empty nest. Grief is a natural, multifaceted response to a loss … any loss … and can impact us physically, emotionally, mentally, behaviorally, socially, and spiritually. Carol, a Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner, offers a transformative journey through grief, challenging oppressive myths and guiding individuals towards healing and wholeheartedness.
To find out more about The Creative Grief Studio, click here.
compassionate bereavement care
Carol has been trained and certified as a Compassionate Bereavement Care® Provider through the MISS Foundation in conjunction with The Kubler-Ross Family Trust and The Center for Loss and Trauma.
To find out more about Compassionate Bereavement Care, click here.
Certified providers working within this type of care follow guiding principles including:
They believe that traumatic grief presents the most difficult and painful circumstances for individuals, families, communities, and even clinicians.
They support their clients' participation in healthy, grief-related activities according to their comfort level.
They trust their clients/patients know best what their own unique needs are and they do their best to meet them at that place, accommodating them on their terms.
They do not diagnose or label grief as mental illness.
They believe that self-care and compassion and ongoing education are penultimate to their client’s well-being.
They strive to offer uniquely individualized care that creates healing environments for their clients.
daring way
During the Daring Way™ process (based on the book Daring Greatly), we explore topics such as vulnerability, courage, shame, and worthiness. We examine the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are holding us back and we identify the new choices and practices that will move us toward more authentic and wholehearted living. The primary focus is on developing shame resilience skills and developing daily practices that transform the way we live, love, parent, and lead. Among other things, this process invites us to practice and experience our vulnerability as courage and cultivate our ability to connect with and foster empathy and compassion for ourselves and others.
Daring Way groups offer the participants the opportunity to:
Break free from old habits and patterns and live your life more authentically.
Learn how to practice and experience vulnerability as courage.
Develop a healthy resilience to shame.
Cultivate your ability to connect with and foster empathy for yourself and others.
Get out from under the yoke of perfectionism and the fear of what others think.
Create healthier boundaries.
Foster self-compassion and gratitude.
Identify the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that hold you back.
Embrace your story as uniquely yours and as a source of strength.
Understand that you are enough just as you are!
rising strong
If The Gifts of Imperfection is about “being you,” and Daring Greatly is about “being all in,” then Rising Strong is about “falling, getting up, learning, and doing it all again.” (Brené Brown). During the Rising Strong practice, we explore a 3-part process that includes: (1) the Reckoning, (2) the Rumble, and (3) the Revolution. Among other things, Rising Strong groups offer the participants the opportunity to identify and clarify our values, recognize when we get hooked by our emotions, identify ways in which we offload our hurt or create barriers, and practice and personalize the experience of storytelling as an important part of meaning-making.
Rising Strong groups offer the participants the opportunity to:
Identify and clarify the values that are most important to us.
Recognize that we get hooked by our emotions and begin to get curious about those emotions.
Identify ways in which we offload hurt and create barriers.
Practice and personalize the experience of storytelling as an important part of meaning-making.
Explore self-awareness around vulnerability, shame, living big, trust and braving, grief and forgiveness, anxiety, and criticism.
Empower ourselves to write new endings to our stories through identifying key learnings that we come to through this process.
Identify ways we can apply our new insights in the many areas of our lives, including home, workplaces and community.
