Events of Interest

Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

Title: Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens
Description: While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. This presentation will address (i) the role of unconscious conflicts in the mental health issues of infertility patients; (ii) the effects of infertility, assisted reproductive technology (ART), and loss on the psyche; and (iii) transference and countertransference experiences in the treatment of infertility patients. Theory will be illustrated with case material.
Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman
Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
Time: 7:00–9:00 PM
Location: CMPS, 16 W 10th St., New York City
Free Admission: Doors open at 6:30 PM

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Fertility Parts: An Integration of IFS into the realm of infertility mental health based on the Mom

Fertility Parts: An Integration of IFS into the realm of infertility mental health based on the Mom Parts Method

An IFS-Informed Method for Fertility-Challenged Clients
 
Description: Join Jessica Tomich Sorci and Michelle Faye Brown, for a six-hour continuing education workshop adapting the five-step Mom Parts Method for fertility-challenged clients. You'll explore why fertility journeys require distinct modifications to the traditional protocol—particularly around respecting protectors that must remain active during ongoing treatment. Learn the Fertility Parts protocol, recognize how parts commonly polarize in this population, and understand how to address grief and shame when clients fear that grieving means giving up. Prerequisites: none. (We will send a video to all registrants with a primer on IFS and fertility concepts and terminology.)
Learning Objectives
Apply the Fertility Parts protocol to help clients identify, unblend from, and befriend their internal "parts."
Identify the primary polarization of parts that emerges when hope and loss coexist, and learn IFS strategies for working with competing protective systems.
Describe the two internal resources fertility clients have available to them, and how to support clients in experiencing greater empowerment, regulation and relief.
 
Dates: August 20th 12pm - 1pm PST Fertility Parts Salon 
August 21st 9am - 3pm PST Continued Fertility Parts Training with one hour lunch break
 
Educational Investment: $225
 
Registration link:https://www.jessicatomichsorci.com/healing/fertilitypartstraining
9th Annual Jefferson Infertility Counseling Course