Fertility Counselling/Psychotherapy

Carried With Love offers virtual individual and couples counselling for those navigating infertility, fertility treatments, miscarriage and loss, pregnancy, postpartum, surrogacy and/or donor conception. We provide a safe, compassionate space to process emotional challenges and build resilience at any stage of the family-building journey.


Surrogacy Support

Surrogacy is a core specialty at Carried With Love. We work with Intended Parents, surrogate and donors providing psychosocial assessments, surrogate screening, implication and comprehensive psychoeducation grounded in the highest ethical standards to support informed, respectful, and well-prepared surrogacy journeys. We also provide free 30 minute surrogacy consultations for Intended Parents!

Ashley has robust experience and unique insight into the fertility world through her own fertility journey which included many years of treatments, delivering stillborn, surrogacy advocacy and a cervical cancer diagnosis. She is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) and has immersed herself into all things fertility and third party reproduction and finds tremendous value in supporting those going through various reproductive challenges.

Ashley is compassionate and knowledgeable about surrogacy and donor conception and has supported many Intended Parents and surrogates on their journey. She also works closely with those who have received reproductive cancer diagnosis’’ and provides therapeutic support through treatments.

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Annie is a Registered Psychotherapist – Qualifying. Annie brings an eclectic mix of personal and professional experience to the table. Through both personal experience of infertility, pregnancy loss, and surrogacy and professional experience of counselling and providing support to many people with a variety of concerns. Annie had a 10-year long fertility journey that included pregnancy complications and losses, and further complications that ultimately led her to becoming a mom through surrogacy. She has a passion for helping those struggling through infertility, pregnancy loss, and facing the choice to pursue parenthood though surrogacy and donor gametes. Annie changed careers and went back to school because she saw the importance of experience in mental health support for people going through difficult journeys to build their families. Annie looks forward to helping you to make meaning and find healing in your unique story that has brought you here.

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Sarah is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in social work. She has trained in the area of grief and bereavement, and has her own personal experience with IVF, IUI, cycle monitoring and ovulation induction in addition to female and male infertility diagnoses that ultimately led to embryo donation.

Sarah understands first hand the importance of having support during the ups and downs of trying to conceive. She was thankful to have a fertility therapist that “got it” during her journey to motherhood. She is a warm and genuine therapist that wants to help facilitate the process of healing.

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Ariel is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) and Surrogacy Expert who has supported hundreds of clients on their unique journey to parenthood. Through her own experience as a 5x surrogate and a 6x egg donor, and her professional experience in the surrogacy and fertility community, Ariel is passionate about making these routes to parenthood ethical and accessible while reducing the stigma surrounding infertility, surrogacy and donor conception.

With a special interest in maternal mental health, an education background in the global perspective of childhood, Thanatology and Social Work, Ariel is well equipped to support Intended Parents through various aspects of their journey and the fertility community as a whole.

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