Personalised therapeutic support for women navigating IVF, donor conception, and pregnancy after loss.
Why This Space Exists
♥ The IVF journey is rarely straightforward. It can bring pressure, uncertainty, and a sense of isolation that few outside the experience truly understand. And even when pregnancy is achieved, the worry doesn’t always disappear. I know, because I’ve been through it myself.
♥ That’s why The IVF Support Space exists: a place where the emotional side of IVF, donor conception, and pregnancy after loss is fully acknowledged and supported.
♥ Here, my professional psychotherapy expertise meets my lived IVF experience. This is a space where you can feel held, understood, and supported every step of the way by someone who truly gets it.
♥ This space exists for you.
My Approach
At The IVF Support Space, I bring together a blend of therapies to meet each client where they are:
Counselling & Psychotherapy to process grief, fear, shame, and identity shifts
CBT & Evidence-Based Tools to reframe anxious thoughts and ease emotional patterns
Hypnotherapy to calm the nervous system and strengthen mind–body connection
Somatic & EFT Practices to regulate emotions and restore a sense of control
This integrated approach is not about toxic positivity or suppressing emotions. It’s about equipping you with therapeutic strategies that reduce stress, build resilience, and help you feel grounded.
Here’s What You Can Expect
More clarity and perspective: so fear and overwhelm don’t take over
Practical tools: to help you cope through scans, appointments, and waiting
A steadier mind and body: learning ways to calm anxiety and feel grounded
Greater self-compassion: replacing guilt with gentleness and care
Resilience to keep going: even through setbacks and uncertainty
A sense of connection: with yourself, your baby, and a renewed sense of hope
Why Women Choose Me
IVF Support
Tailored therapy and coaching that works alongside your IVF or donor conception treatment.
Support from a qualified psychotherapist who has also lived through IVF and donor conception.
Therapist who gets it
Evidence-based tools that calm your mind and body, without toxic positivity or generic therapy advice.
Grounded strategies
Compassionate support by a qualified therapist, award-winning podcast host, best-selling book contributor, with lived experience of both IVF and donor conception.
Trusted expertise
Every woman’s path is different. No matter where you are on the journey,
there’s a space here for you to feel heard, understood and supported.
How I Can Support You
Going through IVF or donor egg conception?
Get therapeutic support that helps you feel calmer, steadier, and more resilient through the ups and downs of the journey.
Pregnant after IVF, loss, or donor conception?
Be supported in your body and ease anxiety so you can move through pregnancy wiht more trust and support.
Need one off support right now?
Book a focused 60 minute 1:1 session to release what you’re carrying, steady your emotions, and walk away with practical tools .
Meet Adele!
Your therapist walking this journey beside you.
I’m Adele O’Connor, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, NLP & EFT practitioner, fertility coach, podcast host and founder fo the IVF Support Space.
Before all that, I was someone who walked the difficult road of IVF and donor conception myself.
My own journey led me to retrain, so I could offer the support I once wished I had. Clients describe me as a steady light, bringing calm, clarity and compassion when everything feels overwhelming.
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Adele helped me through a very anxious and lonely time, whilst navigating IVF for my first child.
I’m now expecting my second child and couldn’t be happier.
Kristi - USA
Client Love
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Adele supported me through two failed transfers and one successful transfer. Having Adele by my side felt so different to how I coped when navigating IVF on my own. I’m now the proud mom of gorgeous twins.
Stephanie - USA
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I was frightened to move away from IVFwith my own eggs to donor eggs. Adele helped me to move past the obstacles and fear that was all in my mind. I am now the proud mum at last and could not be happier.
Julia - Canada
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I felt devastated when the doctors told me the only way forward to carry my own baby was via a donated egg. Adele helped me process the layers of emotions around this. I’m finally a mum to my gorgeous baby girl and couldn’t be happier.
Katherine - Australia
About the Podcast
The IVF Support Space Podcast
Formerly Donor Egg Support Conversations, the first 73 episodes were dedicated to guiding women and families through the donor egg pathway.
Now rebranded as The IVF Support Space, the podcast expands into IVF, donor conception, and pregnancy after loss all through the lens of emotional wellbeing.
Proud winner of Best Fertility Podcast at the 2025 Fertility Care Awards.
Your next step
You don’t have to hold all of this by yourself.
If you’re ready, I’d love to walk alongside you and support you in this journey.