Stefanie Bonnell, LCSW
Specialized mental health support for your family-forming journey
The path to building a family doesn't always look the way you planned. And the emotional weight of that, the grief, the uncertainty, the exhaustion of keeping it all together, often goes unnamed.
I'm Stefanie Bonnell, a Reproductive Mental Health Specialist and LCSW working with clients in Chicago and nationally. I work with high-achievers in the thick of family forming who are holding it together everywhere, except on the inside.
Whether you're navigating IVF, donor conception, or an alternative path you never expected to be on, you don't have to find the words. I already understand.
I wish I'd known someone
like me existed.
Grief is heavy.
And so few people really get it.
It may not look the way you thought it would, but it isn't
second best.
Holding hope and grief at the same time is its own kind of hard.