You don’t have to carry this alone.
FERTILITY & PERINATAL SUPPORT · ATTUNE THERAPY GROUP · WASHINGTON STATE The path to parenthood isn't always the one you planned. Whether you're in the middle of fertility treatment, navigating pregnancy loss, or finding your footing in early parenthood — this is a space to be supported through all of it.
WHAT BROUGHT YOU HEREFor many people, the fertility journey begins with cautious hope. A plan. A timeline. And then, somewhere along the way, that plan meets reality — and the gap between them becomes its own kind of grief.
Maybe you're deep in a cycle of treatment, holding hope and dread at the same time and not quite knowing how to put it down. Maybe you've experienced a loss that no one around you quite knows how to acknowledge. Maybe you and your partner are still united in the goal but starting to feel the strain of getting there — conversations that turn into tension, intimacy that has become complicated, a distance you didn't plan for and don't know how to close.
“These experiences don't mean something is wrong with you. They mean you're human, carrying something genuinely hard — and you deserve support that meets the weight of it.”
Fertility treatment is not only a medical experience. It asks something profound of your body, your relationship, your sense of identity, and your vision of the future. Therapy creates a space to tend to all of that — not just the outcome you're working toward, but who you are through the process of getting there.
WHAT PEOPLE BRING TO THERAPYEvery path here is different. The emotional weight is real on all of them.
Support is available across the full range of fertility and perinatal experiences — wherever you are in the journey.
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The emotional cycle of treatment — hope, waiting, disappointment, and starting again — can become exhausting in ways that are hard to explain to people who haven't been through it. Therapy gives you somewhere to put all of it, without having to manage how it lands on someone else.
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Miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss are profound losses that are often minimized by the world around you. Grief that doesn't get witnessed doesn't go away — it goes underground. Therapy creates space to grieve fully, at your own pace, without being hurried toward recovery.
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Couples who begin treatment feeling united often find themselves drifting as the process wears on. Partners cope differently. Intimacy becomes complicated when sex is scheduled and medicalized. Conversations about next steps feel loaded. Therapy helps couples stay connected — or reconnect — through the uncertainty.
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Anxiety and depression during pregnancy and in the postpartum period are far more common than most people know — and far more treatable. Katya has specialized clinical training in perinatal mood disorders and offers support that is both clinically grounded and deeply human.
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Fertility challenges can shake a person's sense of self in ways that go beyond the medical. Questions about identity, womanhood, partnership, and what the future looks like resurface. Therapy helps you stay grounded in who you are while your circumstances remain uncertain.
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PMDD is a severe, cyclical mood disorder tied to the hormonal changes of the menstrual cycle. It affects relationships, work, and quality of life in ways that are often misunderstood or dismissed. Katya has specialized training in PMDD and offers informed, compassionate support.
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Whether you're pursuing parenthood alone, considering adoption, or navigating what comes after treatment ends — therapy supports the full range of decisions and transitions, without steering you toward any particular outcome.
HOW THERAPY HELPSNot about staying positive.
About being honest.
One of the most isolating parts of the fertility journey is the pressure to remain hopeful — to perform optimism for the people around you even when what you're actually feeling is fear, anger, grief, or exhaustion.
Therapy is not another place to stay positive. It's a place to say what you actually feel — the fear, the anger, the grief, the moments of hope, and the moments of despair — without having to manage how it affects someone else. It's a space to be fully honest, not carefully managed.
For couples, therapy also creates structure for conversations that have become too loaded to have on your own — about next steps, about limits, about what the relationship needs to stay intact through something this hard.
Space for the full emotional experience
Grief, hope, anger, fear — all of it welcome, without pressure to manage how it lands.
Stronger partnership through uncertainty.
Stay connected as a couple when the process pulls you in different directions.
Rebuilt Intimacy
Reclaim physical and emotional closeness when treatment has made sex feel clinical or loaded.
Grounded identity
Stay connected to who you are when fertility challenges to shake your sense of self.
Witnessed grief
Loss that is seen, named, and honored — not minimized or rushed toward resolution.
Clarity about next steps
Support for decisions about continuing treatment, alternative paths, or what comes after.
WHAT TO EXPECTSupport shaped around where you are.
There is no fixed program or predetermined arc. The work is shaped entirely around your experience, your relationship, and what you need at each stage of the journey.
Your first session
A chance to share where you are — what's been happening, what you're carrying, and what kind of support would feel most useful right now. There's no pressure to have it articulated. The first session is simply about being heard.
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Ongoing sessions
Sessions adapt to where you are in the process — which changes, sometimes week to week. Some sessions focus on emotional processing. Others on the relationship. Others on practical decisions about next steps. The pace is always yours.
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The goal
Not a specific outcome for your fertility journey — that's not within therapy's reach and it wouldn't be honest to suggest otherwise. The goal is that you feel supported, less alone, and more able to stay connected to yourself and your partner through whatever comes next.
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Katya Halligan, LMFT
Licensed marriage and family therapist in Washington State. AASECT member working toward Certified Sex Therapist (CST) credentialing. Trained in EFT for Couples, the Gottman Method, and ACT. Specializing in couples therapy, sex therapy, and perinatal support. Affirming of all relationship structures, orientations, and identities — including LGBTQIA2S+, non-monogamy, kink, and sex work. Sessions available in English and Russian.
TESTIMONIALS“IVF took over our lives. We stopped turning towards each other and were just getting through the appointments. Sex become complicated and our communication was strained. Katya helped us make space for both the fertility journey and our relationship. We were able to find joy and pleasure in intimacy again."
— Couple, Shoreline
“After having my baby, I felt like I had completely lost myself. I loved being a mother, but I didn't recognize who I was anymore. Therapy with Katya gave me a place to sort through everything I was feeling and slowly reconnect with myself beyond motherhood.”
— Individual, Bellingham
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Schedule a free 20-minute consultation with Katya. No commitment, no pressure.
Just a conversation to see if this feels like the right fit.
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