Endometriosis & Infertility Support
When Your Body Feels Like It's Fighting Back
Endometriosis is more than discomfort—it's a challenge that can touch every part of life. It can make growing your family feel complicated while you're also managing pain and navigating fertility treatments. If you've ever felt unheard or dismissed, know that your experience matters. At Dancing Bee Counseling in Madison, Wisconsin, I offer compassionate support for those living with endometriosis and facing the unique challenges of infertility. Together, we'll focus on building resilience, finding hope, and creating strategies that help you feel empowered on your journey.
Facing Endometriosis and Infertility Together
Endometriosis is a complex condition that impacts far more than physical health. The pain, fatigue, and years of searching for answers can feel overwhelming—especially when your symptoms were minimized or dismissed. For many, diagnosis takes years, sometimes a decade or more, and by then the journey has already been challenging.
Adding infertility to the mix can feel like an extra weight to carry. Endometriosis affects fertility for many people, making the path to parenthood more complicated. Managing a chronic condition while pursuing fertility treatment is no small task—but you don't have to face it alone.
Because endometriosis is often invisible, others may not understand the depth of your experience—the exhaustion, the canceled plans, the emotional toll. When you combine that with the grief of infertility, it can feel isolating. At Dancing Bee Counseling, I provide compassionate, specialized support for those navigating both endometriosis and fertility challenges, helping you find hope, resilience, and strategies to move forward.
Endometriosis infertility support acknowledges that you're not just dealing with fertility challenges. You're dealing with a whole-body condition that has affected your life for years. You deserve support for all of it, not just the fertility piece.
The Emotional Impact of Endometriosis and Infertility
Living with endometriosis while navigating fertility challenges is an experience that deserves understanding and compassion. These emotions are real and valid—and acknowledging them is the first step toward healing and hope.
Anger
It's natural to feel anger after years of being dismissed or misunderstood. That frustration reflects how deeply you value your health and your future—and it can be channeled into advocacy and self-care.
Grief
Grief often accompanies endometriosis, whether for time lost to pain or the expectations you held for your body and your life. Recognizing this grief allows space for acceptance and growth.
Anxiety and Fear
Uncertainty about treatment, fertility, and the future can feel overwhelming. Together, we can create strategies that bring calm, clarity, and confidence to your journey.
Depression
The weight of chronic illness and infertility can feel heavy, but support and coping tools can help lift that burden and restore hope.
Frustration and Exhaustion
Managing appointments, treatments, and daily life is a lot. You deserve recognition for your strength and practical strategies to protect your energy.
Isolation and Invisibility
Endometriosis is often invisible, but your experience matters. Building connections with those who understand can replace isolation with community.
Body Image and Self-Compassion
Feeling betrayed by your body is common—but your body is not broken. Learning to approach yourself with kindness is a powerful step toward healing.
Healing After Medical Dismissal
Being unheard or dismissed leaves scars. Therapy can help rebuild trust in yourself and your care team, so you feel supported moving forward.
Endometriosis Therapy and Counseling
Endometriosis fertility counseling addresses both the chronic illness and the fertility challenges.
Processing Years of Suffering
Support for endometriosis patients includes processing the years lost to undiagnosed pain, the trauma of being dismissed, and the grief of what endo has taken from you. This history matters and deserves attention.
Chronic Pain Support
Endometriosis chronic pain support addresses the psychological impact of living with persistent pain. Pain management strategies, coping with flares, and maintaining quality of life despite ongoing symptoms.
Managing Anxiety
Endometriosis anxiety responds to targeted interventions. Fear about fertility, fear of recurrence, fear of surgery, medical anxiety from past dismissal. We work on managing these specific fears.
Treatment Decisions
Making treatment decisions can feel overwhelming—whether it's choosing surgery, deciding between IUI and IVF, or knowing when to move forward. Therapy provides a supportive space to clarify your values, explore your options, and make choices that feel right for you and your future.
Relationship Support
Endometriosis and relationships can be strained by chronic illness, painful intercourse, and the fertility struggle. Couples counseling helps partners understand and support each other.
Endo Warrior Identity
Endo warrior support means honoring what you've survived while also acknowledging you're tired of fighting. You don't have to be "inspiring" or "strong" all the time. You can be exhausted and still deserving of support.
Who Seeks Endometriosis Infertility Support?
Newly diagnosed with endometriosis and worried about fertility
Living with endo for years and now trying to conceive
Post-surgery and hoping treatment improved fertility
Managing chronic pain while also pursuing fertility treatment
Considering IVF due to endo-related fertility challenges
Exhausted by years of doctor shopping and delayed diagnosis
Struggling with depression or anxiety related to endo and infertility
Partner of someone with endometriosis, wanting to understand and help
You've been fighting this battle for too long. You don't have to fight it alone anymore.
Schedule a ConsultationWhy See an Endometriosis-Specialized Therapist?
Understanding the Whole Picture
I understand that endometriosis is far more than a fertility condition. The chronic pain, the exhaustion, the years of being dismissed, and the grief of what endo has taken all deserve attention. You won't have to convince me your pain is real.
Chronic Illness Experience
I understand the psychological impact of living with chronic illness. The fatigue, the grief, the identity changes, the relationship strain. Dealing with endometriosis infertility means addressing both the acute fertility crisis and the chronic illness reality.
Endometriosis Infertility Support in Madison, Wisconsin
Dancing Bee Counseling provides specialized living with endometriosis support from our Waunakee office. Telehealth sessions are available throughout Wisconsin.
Dancing Bee Counseling
Serving Dane County and Beyond:
Convenient for patients at UW Fertility, Forward Fertility, and Wisconsin Fertility Institute.
Abby Lemke, MS, LPC-IT
Reproductive Mental Health Specialist
I founded Dancing Bee Counseling because I saw how many people were suffering through fertility struggles without adequate support. For those with endometriosis, the suffering often started years before they even began trying to conceive. You've been fighting this disease for so long, and now you're fighting for your fertility too.
I provide endometriosis emotional support that honors everything you've been through. The years of pain. The dismissal. The grief. And now the fertility challenges on top of it all. You deserve support that sees the whole picture, not just the current cycle or treatment plan.
You've Been Fighting Long Enough Alone
Endometriosis has taken so much. You don't have to give it the fight for your family too. Support is available for both the chronic illness and the fertility journey.
In-person in Waunakee · Telehealth throughout Wisconsin