Trying to grow your family can be one of the most hopeful experiences of your life—but when pregnancy doesn’t happen as expected, it can quickly become one of the most painful.
Whether you’re just beginning fertility investigations, undergoing IVF, experiencing recurrent pregnancy loss, or considering alternative paths to parenthood, infertility can affect every part of your life. The uncertainty, grief, financial stress, and emotional exhaustion often feel overwhelming.
Brittany Marshall provides specialized infertility therapy for individuals and couples across Ontario. Our goal is to help you feel supported, understood, and empowered throughout every stage of your fertility journey.
Infertility therapy is specialized counselling designed to support the emotional, psychological, and relational challenges associated with infertility and fertility treatment.
Unlike traditional counselling, infertility therapy recognizes the unique stressors involved in trying to conceive, including:
Therapy provides a confidential space where you can process your emotions without feeling judged or needing to “stay positive.”
Infertility is often described as one of the most stressful life experiences a person can face. People often describe it as an emotional roller coaster filled with uncertainty, isolation and disappointment.
Many people experience:
Many people wait until they feel completely overwhelmed before reaching out for support.
You may benefit from infertility therapy if you:
Therapy isn’t about “fixing” your emotions. It’s about helping you carry them differently.
Every fertility journey is different. Our therapists provide support through:
Trying month after month without answers can be emotionally exhausting.
We help clients cope with uncertainty, disappointment, and the emotional toll of prolonged trying to conceive.
Testing often brings fear and unanswered questions.
Therapy can help you process difficult diagnoses while preparing emotionally for next steps.
We support clients undergoing:
Treatment involves much more than medical appointments—it impacts your daily life, relationships, work, finances, and mental health.
Miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, and failed embryo transfers can create profound grief.
You deserve support that acknowledges both the pregnancy and the dreams attached to it.
Struggling to grow your family after already having a child can bring complicated emotions that are often misunderstood.
Therapy provides a space free from comparison or judgment.
Many individuals eventually face difficult decisions about continuing treatment, pursuing donor conception, surrogacy, adoption, or living child-free.
Therapy can help you make values-based decisions while honoring your grief.
We understand that infertility is more than a medical diagnosis. Brittany Marshall has lived experience in infertility and lived experience with IVF.
It affects your emotions, relationships, identity, and future.
Our therapists use evidence-based approaches tailored to your needs, including:
Focuses on psychological flexibility, teaching individuals to process painful emotions while remaining aligned with their personal values
Helps patients identify and restructure unhelpful thoughts and anxious patterns associated with treatment failures or the “two-week wait
Includes mindfulness-based stress reduction and specialized meditations that physiologically counteract chronic anxiety and improve overall wellbeing during cycles
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Helps you respond to yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would offer a loved one. Together, we’ll work on reducing shame, building resilience, and learning to navigate difficult emotions with greater self-acceptance.
Helps you identify, understand and work through feelings such as grief, anger, disappointment and loss.
Recognizes the impact these experiences can have on your nervous system, emotions, and sense of safety. We provide a compassionate, non-judgmental space where you can process your experiences at your own pace while building emotional safety, resilience, and healing.
Emphasizes your strengths, resilience, and existing coping skills while helping you identify practical steps toward your goals. Rather than focusing only on the challenges, this approach helps you build confidence, recognize what’s already working, and create meaningful progress throughout your fertility journey.
Through infertility counselling, many clients learn to:
Therapy cannot change the outcome of treatment. But it can change how supported you feel while living through it.
Brittany Marshall brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work in infertility therapy. She has personally navigated infertility and IVF and has two children conceived through IVF. This lived experience gives her a deep, nuanced understanding of the fertility journey—not only as a clinical process, but as a profoundly emotional and life-altering experience.
She understands firsthand how infertility can impact every part of your life: emotionally, physically, spiritually, relationally, and financially. From the exhaustion of repeated appointments and treatment cycles to the grief of loss and uncertainty, Brittany recognizes the complexity of what clients are carrying.
What makes fertility counselling unique is that it requires more than general therapeutic support—it requires someone who truly understands both the medical landscape and the emotional reality of treatment. Brittany is able to bridge both.
She is familiar with fertility terminology, treatment pathways, and common procedures such as IVF, IUI, egg retrievals, embryo transfers, and fertility testing. This means you don’t need to spend valuable session time explaining medical jargon or educating your therapist on the process—you can focus fully on your emotions, your relationship, and your healing.
In this space, you never have to justify why another negative pregnancy test hurts, why waiting for results feels unbearable, or why hope and grief can exist at the same time. That understanding is already there.
Brittany provides a compassionate, informed, and emotionally attuned space where your experience is recognized, validated, and supported at every stage of your fertility journey.
When I was going through my own infertility journey, I felt alone, ashamed, embarrassed and deeply overwhelmed. While I knew I was struggling emotionally, it was difficult to find the kind of personalized support I truly needed.
Peer support groups, including organizations like OASIS, were incredibly valuable and helped me feel less isolated. At the same time, I also realized I needed consistent one-to-one therapeutic support to help me process what I was going through on a deeper level.
Although I was working with a therapist at the time, I often found myself spending much of the session explaining the basics of infertility and IVF, translating medical terminology, and trying to help her understand the emotional complexity of the experience. Instead of feeling supported, I often left feeling more disconnected and alone in it. What I needed was a therapist who truly understood infertility and IVF without needing the education in the room—and at the time, I couldn’t find that specialized support.
After my own journey, I became increasingly drawn to fertility advocacy and deepening my understanding of reproductive mental health. Over time, this work became both personally meaningful and professionally grounding. I have found it to be incredibly rewarding, humbling, and inspiring.
The resilience I see in my clients every day continues to motivate me. I am deeply proud to specialize in infertility and IVF therapy—to offer the kind of attuned, informed, and compassionate care that I once needed myself, and now have the privilege of providing to others.
Brittany offers free 15 minute phone consultations to ensure a good fit.
Our team of therapists provide individual, couples and family therapy to children, youth and adults throughout Ontario. Services are provided in person in Markham or Pickering and over the phone or secure video. Please contact us to book a free 15 minute consultation.
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