IVF Without Losing Yourself
In 90 minutes, you will build a personal plan for the parts of IVF that are hardest to prepare for: the waiting, spiraling thoughts, triggers, family questions, and difficult-news days.
IVF can begin to take up much more than your calendar. You may find yourself checking the portal, comparing your cycle with women online, preparing for bad news, or putting parts of your life on hold while you wait for the next answer. This workshop is designed to help you understand those patterns and decide how you want to manage them before IVF becomes the center of everything.
When IVF starts taking up more than your calendar
It starts with the schedule: monitoring appointments, medication times, the retrieval, the transfer. Then it moves into everything else. You skip the trip, the class, the dinner, because what if. Someone mentions a friend who got pregnant after cutting out sugar, and you quietly wonder what you did wrong. Your mother asks for an update and you cannot tell whether to give her the truth or protect her from it. Your partner is coping differently than you are, and neither of you knows whether that is a problem. Everything, somehow, now routes through the treatment. That is what the workshop is built around.
Four things you can actually do something about
Manage the What-Ifs
Catch the forecasting early, before one thought becomes the whole afternoon.
Navigate the Waiting
Decide ahead of time how you will get through the days when there is nothing to do but wait, so the wait does not decide for you.
Protect Your Life From Becoming Only IVF
Keep the parts of your life that matter on the calendar, whatever this cycle brings.
Decide Who Gets Access
Decide what you share, with whom, and how often, and stop owing everyone an update.
Your IVF Without Losing Yourself Plan
By the end of the 90 minutes, you will have a written plan for your current or next cycle, built during the session with guidance rather than assigned as homework. It is yours to keep, and it covers the moments that are hardest to think clearly in:
- A plan for difficult waiting periods
- A strategy for recognizing and interrupting spirals
- Social media and trigger boundaries
- A plan for family and relationship communication
- A personalized support map
- A plan for difficult-news days
The method for completing each part is taught in the session.
Dr. Dezetta Burnett, DSW, LCSW
Dr. Burnett is a Doctor of Social Work and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her practice, Burnett Clinical Group, works with women managing anxiety, uncertainty, relationships, and life transitions, including the emotional weight of fertility treatment.
After experiencing IUI, IVF, and pregnancy loss herself, Dr. Burnett created the kind of practical emotional support she wished had been available alongside fertility treatment.
Full bio and credentials · Individual fertility therapy in California
One session. 90 minutes. A plan you take with you.
- Teaching
- Short, direct segments on each of the four areas, in plain language.
- Guided plan-building
- You complete your IVF Without Losing Yourself Plan during the session, with the guided workbook provided.
- General Q&A
- Time at the end for questions about the material. Cameras optional throughout.
- Logistics
- Saturday, November 7, 2026 · 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern) · Live on Zoom · Founding participant rate: $79 · Limited to 20
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Before you reserve
Is this therapy?
No. This is a psychoeducational workshop: education and practical strategies, taught to a group. It is not psychotherapy, medical treatment, or individualized advice, and it does not create a therapist-client relationship.
Do I need to currently be in an IVF cycle?
No. Many women preparing for a first cycle get the most from it, because the plan is built before the waiting starts.
What if I am between cycles?
Yes. The workshop can be especially useful between cycles because you have time to reflect on what was difficult and create a plan before treatment resumes.
What if I am undergoing fertility treatment other than IVF?
The waiting, the what-ifs, and the way treatment takes over a life apply just as much to IUI, egg freezing, and other forms of treatment, and so does the workshop.
What is the refund and cancellation policy?
Full refund if you cancel at least 48 hours before the session. Within 48 hours, your payment converts to credit toward a future date. If you miss the session without notice, you still receive the recording of the educational portion. If I cancel or reschedule, you receive a full refund or a transfer to the new date, your choice.
Will the session be recorded?
Yes. The educational portion is recorded and shared with registered participants. Participant discussion and Q&A are not included in the replay.
Why the waiting is the hardest part
If you would like a sense of how I think about this before you reserve a seat, start with this article on the two-week wait: why the searching and symptom-checking start, why they rarely settle anything, and what tends to help instead.
IVF Two-Week Wait Anxiety: Why Waiting During IVF Feels So Hard
IVF may be part of your life right now. It does not have to become all of it.
One live session, Saturday, November 7. You leave with a plan you built yourself.
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