The Program

Mind Body training is an intensive weekend program  for all  Masters level prepared Psychiatric Nurses and Licensed Clinical Social Workers. The introductory program focuses on mind body practices that will enable mental health professionals to help women who are experiencing infertility.

These practices include:
• Deep, alert relaxation (based on the Relaxation Response)
• Guided Imagery
• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Cognitive Behavioral Strategies

Women who are struggling with infertility suffer from feelings of inadequacy, failure, anger, frustration, anxiety, sadness, depression and often despair. Often a woman becomes isolated and estranged from friends and family and marriages /partnerships can suffer as well. This feeling of being alone and not in sync with one’s peers can lead a woman to feel desperate. A Mind Body approach to fertility significantly reduces these feelings and enables a woman to live her life more fully and with an enhanced quality of life. In addition, research has shown that women who participate in a Mind Body program in conjunction with medical treatment significantly increase their success rates when doing in-vitro fertilization.