Infertility often involves grief and loss without clear resolution, recognition, or closure. Many individuals find themselves grieving pregnancies that never happened, timelines that shifted, identities they imagined for themselves, or futures that remain uncertain – all while continuing to move through treatment, decision-making, hope, and daily life.

This webinar is designed for therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Clergy, healthcare professionals, and other aligned professional who support those navigating reproductive trauma, infertility, pregnancy and early motherhood are welcome as well.

Clinicians will leave with:

• A deeper understanding of how infertility histories may continue to shape maternal mental health, relationships, attachment, and early parenting experiences
• A stronger framework for understanding why infertility-related distress may persist during pregnancy and postpartum
• Increased sensitivity to experiences often missed or minimized clinically, including gratitude guilt, persistent hypervigilance, emotional disorientation, bonding fears, and identity disruption
• Practical language and interventions that help clients feel validated without minimizing, pathologizing, or oversimplifying complex but expected emotional responses
• Greater confidence supporting patients through emotional experiences that may hold both profound joy and ongoing grief simultaneously

Join Kenzi Locks, LCSW, Yesh Tikva’s Director of Program and Educational Development for a thoughtful professional training exploring the concept of ambiguous loss and its profound relevance within infertility and reproductive trauma. Together, we will examine how ongoing uncertainty, unresolved outcomes, and socially unrecognized grief can shape emotional experiences, coping patterns, relationships, identity, and mental health throughout the family-building journey.

This webinar is designed for therapists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, clergy, healthcare professionals, and others supporting individuals navigating infertility, reproductive trauma, pregnancy loss, donor conception, childlessness after infertility, and other complex family-building experiences.

Clinicians will leave with:

• A deeper understanding of ambiguous loss and why infertility-related grief often feels ongoing, cyclical, or difficult to resolve
• Greater ability to recognize and support forms of grief that may not be socially acknowledged or easily named
• Increased sensitivity to the emotional impact of prolonged uncertainty, unresolved outcomes, and disrupted expectations
• Stronger frameworks for understanding why patients may feel emotionally “stuck,” hypervigilant, conflicted, or unable to “move on”
• Practical language and therapeutic approaches that support patients without forcing closure, premature meaning-making, or emotional resolution
• Greater confidence holding emotional experiences that may contain both hope and grief simultaneously

Topics explored may include:

• What ambiguous loss is and why it matters clinically
• The emotional impact of prolonged uncertainty and unresolved outcomes
• Cyclical grief during infertility and fertility treatment
• Grieving imagined futures, identities, and timelines
• Why infertility-related grief often resurfaces even after periods of hope or progress
• Social invisibility and disenfranchised grief
• Ambiguous loss in donor conception, pregnancy after infertility, and childlessness after infertility
• Clinical approaches that support ongoing grief without pathologizing it

Whether you are newer to reproductive mental health work or already supporting infertility patients in your practice, this training aims to deepen clinical understanding and support more nuanced, compassionate care for individuals living with grief that often has no clear endpoint.