Therapy For Family Planning: Deciding to Start or Expand a Family Should Be Planned and Intentional
Whether or not to bring a child into your life right now is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make. In online therapy for family planning during COVID-19, we understand that new considerations may be surfacing in a different way, such as the financial toll of having a child in a turbulent and uncertain economy. In video therapy sessions, we’ll help you process how the current moment is shaping (or reshaping) your decision to bring a(nother) baby into your home.
However you create your family—whether in a traditional two-parent home, co-parenting, or single parenthood—we believe all children should be wanted, and healthy families are planned families. We help individuals and couples talk through:
- Adding another child into the family, especially during or post-pandemic
- Conflicts around having a(nother) baby
- The possibility of choosing not to have a(nother) baby
- Life goals
- Values
- Financial concerns
If You Do Decide to Have a Baby, There Are Many Ways to Do It
If you do decide to have a baby, there are many ways to go, and we’ll help you sort through your options. In particular, we help individuals and couples considering:
- Health-related concerns for mom and/or the baby, including during COVID-19
- Adoption
- IVF
- Surrogacy
- Storing/freezing eggs/embryos
There’s More to Family Planning Than the Logistics
There’s more than logistics, of course. Because we’re therapists first, we recognize and make room for the emotional enormity of deciding to add to your family. As you consider creating a family, we create space for you to explore what having a child will mean for you (and perhaps a partner) emotionally.
The Decisions You’re Making Are Big Ones: We Help Couples Navigate Them Together
The help you need in deciding whether, when, or how to expand your family may happen as a couple. In remote couples therapy at Tribeca Maternity, we help couples slow down and check in with what each partner wants by looking at:
- What your current family looks like
- How you want your family to look
- How to get there