Hi. I’m Evelyn Page, I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. What does that mean? Basically, I’m someone who helps people facing challenges in building a family. I always had an interest in working with families and I started out working primarily with children and teens, but after my own difficult experience in trying to start a family, and wondering if it would ever happen, I realized that I wanted to help other people like me.
Like many other people, you probably assumed when you wanted to start a family it would just happen. And why wouldn’t you? It seems to happen to everyone else around you. I felt the same way, until it just wasn’t happening the way I thought it would. It can be frustrating and painful and tiring to keep trying, seeing doctors, going through procedure after procedure and still not have the family you pictured. Very few people talk about the emotional toll it takes on you when every month goes by and there’s no positive pregnancy test, or worse yet, that pregnancy that finally happened, ends unexpectedly. I know from personal experience how devastating infertility and loss can be. I can help you navigate through, not just the medical side of fertility treatments, but also the emotional rollercoaster of building a family.
You might be getting to a point in building your family where you are considering alternatives to building a family. Adoption, donor eggs/sperm, surrogacy…options you may not have even considered until now. Maybe you’re not sure what this means or how it could fit into your life. These are all very personal decisions that I’ve gone through as well, and I can help you consider how these options could help you build the family you desire.
I help individuals and couples get through these experiences without losing themselves in the process. It can be so easy to focus on bringing a baby home, that we forget to enjoy the rest of our lives. Finding that balance can be hard.
Let me help you explore how you can build the family you want and also find ways to stay connected with the rest of your life.