Dr Marie Meechan, The Fertility Psychotherapist
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For fellow professionals

Training and speaking for fellow professionals

For counsellors, healthcare professionals, and reproductive health teams who want to build specialist understanding of fertility impairment — grounded in research, lived experience, and clinical practice.

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Who this is for

Built for the people working alongside the system

  • Trainee counsellors and psychotherapists looking to specialise
  • BACP-registered practitioners adding fertility specialism to their work
  • NHS clinicians and IVF clinic teams
  • Fertility nurses, embryologists, and clinic administrative teams
  • Anyone working alongside individuals or couples in the reproductive medicine system
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What is covered

A therapeutic framework of six processes — flexible, never linear

Developed over years of clinical practice and doctoral research, designed to be shaped around the person in front of you.

01

Affirming

Acknowledging the diagnosis and supporting normalisation of the patient’s emotional response.

02

Onboarding the medical journey

Understanding the emotional and social texture of treatment, not just the clinical pathway.

03

Acknowledging, naming, validating

The emotional toll of medical cycles, including the rollercoaster of hope and anguish.

04

Managing multiple losses

Disenfranchised grief, non-finite loss, chronic sorrow, ambiguous loss.

05

Guiding and coaching

Psychoeducation around assisted reproductive technologies, informed decision-making, treatment fatigue.

06

Re-evaluating commitments

Supporting the move to ending treatment and redefining family.

Frameworks I draw on

Grounded in established theory

  • My own Wheel of Therapeutic Infertility Processes
  • The Compass of Shame (Nathanson, 1992) applied to fertility impairment
  • Disenfranchised grief (Doka, 2002)
  • Ambiguous loss, chronic sorrow, non-finite loss (Boss, Roos, Harris, 2021)
Speaking

Talks, CPD, panels and podcasts

I am available for keynote talks at conferences on fertility, loss, and reproductive medicine; CPD sessions for NHS and clinic teams; panel work; and podcast guest appearances.

Recent topics include: disenfranchised grief in fertility care, the Compass of Shame in clinical practice, and holding both the medical and the emotional in fertility counselling.

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Training & speaking enquiries

For training and speaking enquiries, please use the form below or email directly. I will respond within three working days.