FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2027 · 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET · 1 CE
When Infertility Enters the Relationship: Attachment, Grief, and Connection Through the Fertility Journey
Deliesha Durden, LCMHC, PMH-C
About This Webinar
This presentation explores infertility as more than a medical experience by examining its emotional, relational, and attachment-based impact on individuals and couples. Participants will learn how infertility can affect communication, grief, identity, intimacy, emotional safety, and the couple bond, including the ways partners may cope or grieve differently.
Using an attachment-informed and relationship-centered lens, the session will address common myths about infertility, the layered impact of pregnancy loss, and how attachment distress can show up as conflict, withdrawal, or disconnection. Participants will explore practical strategies for supporting couples through fertility treatment and uncertainty, including how providers may unintentionally contribute to relational harm through exclusion, blame, minimizing grief, or toxic positivity. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how to support both partners, protect the relationship during treatment, and provide more compassionate, culturally responsive infertility care.
Meet Deliesha Durden, LCMHC, PMH-C
Deliesha is a therapist at On The Horizon Counseling, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she supports individuals and couples navigating relationship challenges, betrayal, infertility, pregnancy loss, and postpartum transitions. She provides therapy in person and virtually across North Carolina and South Carolina, creating a welcoming, supportive space where clients can show up fully and feel safe, understood, and cared for.
In addition to her clinical experience, Deliesha brings lived experience with infertility and pregnancy loss, as well as an understanding of how these experiences can shape relationships in unexpected ways. Her approach is grounded in compassion, authenticity, and a deep commitment to helping individuals and couples navigate difficult experiences while strengthening emotional connection.
This continuing education activity is approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional regulation as a Registered Nurse CE Sponsor #236.000230 and Registered Social Workers CE Sponsor #159.001647.