Saff Mitten

Therapy for IVF, infertility and miscarriage.

I am a counsellor and psychotherapist who supports women through IVF, infertility and miscarriage.

If you are currently facing these issues, I know how hard it is, and how much it can impact you. I had a long infertility and IVF journey, and I experienced the grief of multiple miscarriages. It had a profound impact on me, and that is why I focus my work as a therapist on helping other women facing these issues. 

My therapy training provides the clinical foundation for my work, and my personal experience of this journey provides the core understanding of what it is actually like. 

My Approach - How I Can Help

My approach is warm, compassionate and down to earth. I provide a space where you can be yourself without feeling judged or talked down to. 

If we work together, I can't take away the uncertainty of infertility or IVF, or promise a particular outcome. What I can do is help you:

• Feel better able to cope with the emotional ups and downs of infertility and IVF, rather than carrying everything on your own.
• Better understand your thoughts and feelings. I can help you make sense of your reactions and recognise that many of them are a normal response to an incredibly difficult experience.
• Have somewhere you can talk openly about the things you don't feel able to say anywhere else, without fear of judgement or feeling you have to protect other people's feelings.
• Have a consistent source of support at a time when so much else feels uncertain and outside your control.
• Feel more confident about treatment decisions by having the time and space to think through appointments, options and difficult choices without judgement or pressure.
• Feel more mentally and emotionally prepared for another IVF cycle, an embryo transfer, the two-week wait, a pregnancy test, an important scan, or whatever lies ahead.
• If you become pregnant, continue to have support as you navigate pregnancy after infertility, recognising that reaching this point doesn't necessarily make the emotional impact of infertility disappear, and giving you space to explore whatever thoughts and feelings arise along the way.
• Navigate the changing stages of your journey when the goalposts unexpectedly move, whether that means considering donor eggs, donor sperm or donor embryos, surrogacy, or taking a break from treatment.
• If the time comes to stop treatment, have support as you navigate that transition, making sense of the emotions it brings, grieving what has been lost, and exploring what the next chapter of your life could look like, at your own pace.
• Recognise and process the grief and loss that often accompany infertility, IVF and miscarriage, including both the ongoing, often invisible grief of this journey and specific painful experiences such as failed cycles, miscarriage and repeated disappointment.
• Better understand the impact infertility and IVF are having on your confidence, identity, relationships and everyday life, and explore ways of responding to those challenges in a way that feels right for you.
• Reconnect with other aspects of your life outside IVF, finding small ways to ensure treatment isn't the only thing your life revolves around.
• And, if you feel ready, begin to reconnect with yourself on a deeper level, developing a greater sense of confidence, self-belief and agency, while recognising that this journey may have changed you in ways that deserve understanding and compassion.

My hope is that, by working with me, you will feel more supported, less alone, and better able to navigate one of the most difficult chapters of your life.

If this resonates with you, and you feel I may be the right therapist to support you, please get in touch.

Get In Touch

I offer online counselling and psychotherapy via Zoom or Teams, and I see clients across the UK.

I also offer a free no pressure, 15- minute phone consultation if you'd like to speak before booking a first session. 

And you can visit my website if you want to learn more about me and my experience.

IVF

Fertility issues.

I work Monday - Friday in the daytime and early evening.