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The Baby Is Finally Here: Postpartum Realities After Infertility
This session examines the often-overlooked postpartum experience following infertility and assisted reproduction, where expected joy may coexist with depression, anxiety, guilt, grief, or emotional disconnection. Participants will explore the unique challenges that can emerge when the realities of pregnancy, birth, and early parenting intersect with a history of infertility and reproductive trauma.
Clinicians will learn practical strategies to normalize complex emotions, reduce shame, support attachment, and help clients navigate the transition to parenthood with greater self-compassion and emotional resilience.
This training is part of Holding Hope: Providing Compassionate Care for Those Struggling with Fertility, a three-part continuing education series led by Lacey Castilleja Fisher, LPC-S, RPT-S, PMH-C, RST-C/T.
Sessions may be attended individually or as a complete series.
Participants may earn up to 4.5 CE hours for the full series, with 1.5 CE hours available for each individual session.
Register for this session or explore bundle options for the full series.
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Lacey Castilleja Fisher is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor, Registered Play Therapist- Supervisor, Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional and Registered Sand Therapist- Consultant/Trainer with a mental health private practice in Austin, Texas. Lacey has worked in a variety of settings including in a Children’s Advocacy Center to provide counseling to children that experienced sexual abuse and their families, and she decided to take the experience she had there and apply it to private practice.
She built her practice around supporting children and adults that had experienced sexual abuse/assault and found a passion working with parents and parents to be when their sexual trauma was activated in the perinatal period. Lacey became passionate about working with parents that struggle with perinatal mental health struggles, specifically PTSD, after her own experience of becoming a mother and experiencing trauma after her newborn was unexpectedly admitted to the NICU. This led to Lacey learning as much as she could about perinatal trauma, pregnancy and infant loss, NICU trauma and fertility struggles.
Lacey finds that the parents she works with respond well to EMDR, IFS and sandtray therapy at her counseling practice. She is also trained in accelerated resolution therapy, trauma conscious yoga method, brainspotting and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Lacey was a co-founder of the Texas SandTray Association and has served as the Clinical Director for the Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Alliance of Texas and now serves on their advisory board.