Fatima La'Juan Muse (she/her/hers)

Those who experience infertility deal with a range of emotions. Occasionally the relationship with your partner suffers and you find it difficult to maintain relationships with friends who seem to be effortlessly creating families. You are stressed out, anxious, depressed, and angry. You have trouble concentrating at work. You make up excuses not to attend baby showers or hangout with friends who have children. You feel alone, broken.

Those who experience infertility deal with a range of emotions. Occasionally the relationship with your partner suffers and you find it difficult to maintain relationships with friends who seem to be effortlessly creating families. You are stressed out, anxious, depressed, and angry. You have trouble concentrating at work. You make up excuses not to attend baby showers or hangout with friends who have children. You feel alone, broken. I have extensive training in Reproductive Health Counseling.

The abrupt end of a pregnancy is never an easy experience or decision to make. People respond to loss differently. You may experience sadness, anger, anxiety, guilt, shame, relief, or many other emotions. Grief has no timeline. It should not be judged, it should be understood. If you think you should be “over it” by now but are still struggling, counseling can help you understand the loss and your reaction to it. You will find that loss is an experience you move through, not over.

The abrupt end of a pregnancy is never an easy experience or decision to make. People respond to loss differently. You may experience sadness, anger, anxiety, guilt, shame, relief, or many other emotions. Grief has no timeline. It should not be judged, it should be understood. If you think you should be “over it” by now but are still struggling, counseling can help you understand the loss and your reaction to it. You will find that loss is an experience you move through, not over.

Surviving an affair can be emotionally taxing and mentally exhausting. But it doesn't have to be the end of your relationship. Many couples successfully move on to repair and rebuild what was broken. transforms their relationship into one that is stronger and more resilient than before. They end up looking back upon this time as a turning point in their marriage, and a time of re-commitment. Using evidenced based techniques, I can guide you and your spouse toward reconciliation after an affair.

The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple’s relationship and integrates research-based interventions. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication; increase intimacy, respect, and affection; remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy; and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

Counseling couples requires particular expertise, and many counseling professionals do not have adequate training. Couples therapy refers to the way of providing simultaneous counseling to both individuals in a relationship. This modality helps in discussing your grievances under an experienced professional with an objective view of your situation. This aspect ensures that your talks don’t escalate into arguments, while also exploring what’s blocking you and your partner from domestic bliss.

Culturally sensitive therapy emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client's background, ethnicity, and belief system. Therapists can incorporate cultural sensitivity into their work to accommodate and respect differences in opinions, values, and attitudes of various cultures and different types of people.