Infertility & Reproductive Trauma with Elaine Gee-Wong, LMFT

Joining me on this episode is my guest Elaine Gee-Wong. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Los Altos, CA. She specializes in infertility and has completed the Mental Health Professional Certification from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine as well as a year-long postgraduate course on Counseling for Fertility. She is also a trained Accelerated Resolution Therapy clinician and uses this to help people resolve trauma, including reproductive trauma.

In this episode we discuss:

• Elaine's personal story and why she works with clients experiencing infertility
• What makes infertility a trauma
• How therapy can help when you're going through infertility
• Asian Americans and therapy

Elaine's Private Practice Website: https://talkingaboutfertility.com/

Elaine's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkingaboutfertility/

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