Infertility Therapy for Women in Cincinnati, Ohio
Infertility Can Feel Like Living in a Constant State of Waiting.
Waiting for answers. Waiting for results. Waiting for something to finally work.
Online infertility therapy available to clients in Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Emotional Impact of Infertility?
Infertility can affect you in ways that are difficult to explain to people who haven’t experienced it.
You may feel:
Anxious before appointments, procedures, testing, or results
Caught off guard by how painful pregnancy announcements can feel
Jealousy or sadness, followed quickly by guilt for feeling that way
Strain in your relationship or a sense that you’re carrying this experience alone
Disconnected from or frustrated with your body
Afraid to let yourself hope because hope can feel risky
Because so much of this experience happens privately, the people around you may not fully understand the depth of the grief, stress, and uncertainty you’re carrying.
In online infertility therapy, we make space for all of it without minimizing your feelings or rushing you through the experience.
Why is the Uncertainty so Exhausting?
Every month can bring another round of hope, waiting, and disappointment.
Over time, the uncertainty can leave you feeling emotionally drained, anxious, or hesitant to let yourself hope again. You may find yourself thinking ahead to the next appointment, test, treatment, or decision while still trying to process what happened the month before.
Infertility can bring grief that doesn’t always have a clear beginning or ending. There may be moments of hope alongside sadness, frustration, fear, or exhaustion, sometimes all within a short period.
In therapy, there is room for those emotions without expecting you to rush through them or feel a certain way about what you’re experiencing.
Meet Dr. Ana Baratta, LPCC
I’m Dr. Ana Baratta, a bilingual licensed therapist supporting women navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, grief, and anxiety.
This work is especially meaningful to me because I have experienced infertility and pregnancy loss myself. I know personally that infertility can affect far more than the hope of becoming pregnant. It can touch your relationships, your sense of self, your connection with your body, and the way you imagine your future.
My experience is not your experience, and I won’t assume that I know exactly how you feel. What it does mean is that you don’t have to convince me that this is painful or explain why something that happened months ago can still affect you today.
In therapy, we can make room for the grief, uncertainty, anxiety, anger, hope, and complicated emotions that may come with infertility. I offer therapy in English and Spanish and incorporate EMDR when it’s the right fit. My approach is warm, direct, and trauma-informed, with respect for your story, your pace, and what matters to you.
How Does Online Infertility Therapy Work in Cincinnati, Ohio?
In our online therapy sessions, we make space for the grief, anxiety, uncertainty, and emotional exhaustion that infertility can bring.
Together, we may work to:
Process repeated disappointment and the grief that can come with infertility
Find ways to respond to anxiety around treatment, testing, waiting, and uncertainty
Make room for difficult emotions throughout fertility treatment or each cycle
Process distress connected to medical procedures or difficult fertility experiences
Explore changes in how you feel about or relate to your body
Make space for hope without feeling pressured to stay positive
My approach is trauma-informed, and I incorporate EMDR when it’s appropriate for your needs and goals, particularly when certain fertility experiences, procedures, losses, or memories continue to feel distressing.
Sessions take place through a secure online platform for clients in Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
Online infertility therapy allows you to attend sessions from the privacy of your own space without adding another commute to an already demanding schedule.
As You Begin Working Through Infertility
As you make space for what you’re experiencing, you may begin to notice:
Difficult moments feel a little more manageable when they come.
You have more ways to respond to anxiety around appointments, testing, and results.
It becomes easier to talk about what you need in your relationships.
You notice self-blame and guilt without automatically believing everything they tell you.
You begin reconnecting with parts of yourself that have little to do with fertility or treatment.
The goal isn’t to take away your hope or tell you how to grieve. Therapy gives you a place to carry less of this alone while finding ways to care for yourself through the uncertainty.
Online Infertility Therapy
If you live in Cincinnati or elsewhere in Ohio, online infertility therapy allows you to attend sessions from a private space that works for you.
When you’re already managing appointments, testing, treatment decisions, work, and everyday responsibilities, therapy doesn’t need to require another drive across town. Online sessions can give you dedicated time to talk about what you’re carrying without adding another commute to your schedule.
You can come to therapy whether you’re actively going through fertility treatment, taking a break, deciding what comes next, or trying to make sense of everything you’ve already been through.
I also provide online therapy to clients in Indiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Infertility is a profound stressor that affects every area of life — your relationship, your identity, your sense of the future, and your body. Studies show that the psychological distress associated with infertility is comparable to that of serious illness. Anxiety and depression are common, and so are grief, shame, isolation, and a painful rupture between the life you expected and the one you're living. You don't need to be in crisis to seek therapy. If infertility is consuming your mental and emotional bandwidth, if it's creating distance in your relationship, or if you feel like you're losing yourself in the process, therapy can help — at any stage of treatment or waiting.
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Therapy for infertility is grief work, identity work, and nervous system work all at once. We make space for the losses that often go unnamed — the cycles that failed, the embryos that didn't take, the version of parenthood you pictured. We also look at how infertility is affecting your sense of self, your relationships, and your ability to stay present in your life while you're waiting. I take a warm, non-prescriptive approach — there's no timeline for your grief, and I won't tell you to "stay positive." The goal is to help you feel less alone in this and more grounded in yourself, whatever the outcome.0
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My style is warm, trauma-informed, and collaborative. I tailor therapy to your needs and goals, and we move at a pace that feels supportive while still making meaningful progress.
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You can contact me through my website, email, or phone to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. If we decide to move forward, we will schedule your first appointment and I will send you the next steps for paperwork and intake.
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Absolutely. Each failed cycle can feel like a discrete loss — and the cumulative weight of repeated disappointment, physical strain, financial stress, and uncertain hope can be devastating. Many of my clients going through IVF or IUI describe feeling like they have to hold it together publicly while falling apart privately. Therapy provides a place to be honest about all of it: the grief, the anger, the ambivalence, the toll on your partnership, the complicated feelings when others around you get pregnant. I also support clients processing the decision to stop treatment, pursue donor options, or consider adoption.
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Yes. I provide services in English and Spanish.
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I am a private-pay practice and do not bill insurance directly. If applicable, I can provide a superbill that you may submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
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My current private-pay fees are:
Ohio & Florida: $ 150 per session
Puerto Rico: $ 100 per session
Ready to Begin Infertility Therapy in Cincinnati, Ohio?
If infertility has left you feeling anxious, exhausted, grieving, or unsure how to carry everything that comes with it, you don’t have to have the right words before reaching out.
Therapy can give you a private place to talk about what you’re experiencing, including the emotions that may feel difficult to share with the people in your life.
If you’re ready to explore whether working together feels like the right fit, I invite you to schedule a consultation.
