Pregnancy Loss & Decision Support

Therapy for pregnancy loss, complex decisions, and adoption planning

If you’re navigating miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, unexpected pregnancy, or adoption planning, you do not have to face it alone.

What You May Be Experiencing

  • Shock, numbness, sadness, anger, or guilt after loss

  • Anxiety, panic, or intrusive thoughts

  • Conflicting feelings about continuing a pregnancy

  • Relationship strain, isolation, or decision fatigue

  • Information overload and pressure to decide quickly

  • Meaning, purpose, values, or spiritual questions

How Therapy Helps

Therapy can help you:

  • Process grief, trauma, and uncertainty

  • Clarify options without pressure

  • Prepare for procedures, aftercare, or next steps

  • Communicate with partners, family, and providers

  • Create remembrance practices that feel right to you

Care may include CBT, ACT, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, grief-informed care, trauma-informed support, and values-based decision work.

Adoption Planning Support

If you are exploring adoption, Niara offers non-directive counseling to support informed, values-aligned decision-making. Niara is not an adoption agency or legal provider. Therapeutic support may include coordination with your care team, with your written consent.

Support may focus on:

  • Clarifying values, hopes, boundaries, and deal-breakers

  • Understanding open, semi-open, and closed adoption dynamics

  • Thinking through prospective adoptive-family preferences

  • Hospital planning and consent conversations

  • Communication before, during, and after placement

  • Grief, relief, ambivalence, and layered emotions

  • Post-placement support, identity work, and coping

Coordination: With written consent, Niara can collaborate with medical providers, agencies, doulas, or attorneys.
Scope: Niara does not provide legal advice, matching services, home studies, or adoption placement services.

What to Expect

Free 15-minute consult
A brief call to ask questions and see if Niara feels like the right fit.

Initial session
A review of concerns, history, current supports, and goals for therapy.

Ongoing sessions
Weekly or biweekly 50-minute telehealth sessions.

Care coordination
Optional collaboration with medical or support providers, with written consent.

Responsive care
Treatment evolves as your needs, symptoms, and circumstances change.

Treatment evolves as your needs, symptoms, and circumstances change.

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