This workshop gives an insight into the challenges facing parents with infertility.
It will give an insight into the current clinical procedures for parents.
Also the loss and desperation that parents will be facing will be discussed.
The workshop will also focus on the different levels of impact associated with fertility struggles, the physical, mental, emotional and financial.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Understand the different types of infertility
- What a typical ” fertility cycle” looks like
- How to be a supportive friend or professional
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Health care professionals, counsellors, peer supporters and friends of people struggling with fertility.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Have a greater holistic understanding of Infertility Struggles
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Blakemore is a mum of three, who is a counsellor with specialism in infant loss and birth trauma. Kate has had her private counselling practice since 2012 and has a diploma in Specialist Fertility Counselling.
Kate is also the founder and Chief Executive of the charity Motherwell Cheshire, a Women and Girls Charity which was founded in 2015.
Kate is passionate about supporting women and girls and in particular mums mental health. Kate felt there were many books out there for new mums but nothing really available for the “mothering journey” and so the start of the book “mums the word – the mothering journey” began.
