Care, thoughtfully gathered
At Fynbos Integrative Therapies, we bring together the kinds of care that usually live in separate places. Mental health support. Bodywork. Group connection. All under one roof, just upstairs from Boston IVF's Maine center.
We organize our care around the seasons of life that ask the most of us, because the journey through family planning, fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, loss and career rarely move in a straight line. Wherever you are in it, there's a place for you here.
Where you are, we meet you
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This phase holds a lot. The early wondering. The decision-making. The cycle tracking, the appointments, the two-week waits. The quiet recalibrations after a result that wasn't the one you hoped for. Whether you're contemplating expanding your family, navigating infertility or secondary infertility, preparing for IUI or IVF, choosing a donor, working with a surrogate, or moving through ART as a single parent by choice or with your partner, this is a season that asks for steadiness.
What support can look like here: Counseling to process anticipatory anxiety, decision fatigue, and grief along the way. Bodywork to settle a nervous system that's been on high alert. A space to be honest about what's hard, even when the path forward is the one you chose.
Includes support for: family planning contemplation, infertility and secondary infertility, PCOS and Endometriosis, IUI and IVF cycles, donor selection, same-sex couples and single parents by choice, the two-week wait, processing outcomes.
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Pregnancy can be tender and surreal and harder than people expect, sometimes all in the same afternoon. A growing body, shifting hormones, the weight of medical decisions, and a future that feels both close and uncertain. Some pregnancies are also marked by complication, by worry about genetic results, or by the lingering imprint of previous loss, prior challenging pregnancies and deliveries. All of it is welcome here.
What support can look like here: Counseling to hold what feels too big to say out loud, including pregnancy after loss and high-stress or medically complex pregnancies. Bodywork to support a body doing extraordinary work. Care that treats you, not just the pregnancy.
Includes support for: pregnancy after loss, high-risk or medically complex pregnancies, processing genetic findings, anxiety and depression in pregnancy, partner support.
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The first weeks and months after birth, however that birth went, can feel like a country with its own weather. You may be navigating a postpartum mood disorder, recovering from a difficult or traumatic birth, healing physically while caring for someone who needs you constantly, the psychological impact of sleepless nights and challenges of feeding, or quietly noticing that you don't feel like yourself. None of that means anything is wrong with you. It often means support is overdue.
What support can look like here: Counseling for postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, and the heavier territory of postpartum mood disorders as well as the everyday stressors of being a parent to a little one. Bodywork to help a recovering body feel like home again. Care for birthing parents, non-birthing parents, and partners alike.
Includes support for: postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD, and psychosis; traumatic birth recovery; identity shifts in early parenting; partner and non-birthing parent support.
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Loss takes many shapes. A pregnancy that ended. A diagnosis that closed a door. A failed transfer. A long fertility journey that has reached its end, whether that ending is "one and done" or childless not by choice. Each of these grieves is real, and each deserves care that doesn't try to move you through it on a timeline that isn't yours.
What support can look like here: Counseling to hold grief without rushing it. Bodywork to tend to a body that's been through something that’s hard to put words to. Space to make meaning, slowly, in your own way.
Includes support for: pregnancy loss, recurrent loss, end-of-fertility-journey grief, "one and done" by choice or circumstance, childless not by choice, complicated grief.
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Work and identity shift for all kinds of reasons; major life milestones, job loss, organizational changes, burnout and more. In addition, fertility, pregnancy, and parenting reshape more than your schedule. They reshape who you are at home and at work, how you see your future, and what you want from the life you're building. Maybe you're returning from leave and unsure of your footing. Maybe you're rethinking the career you were on before any of this began. Maybe you're holding two identities that don't quite fit together yet. Maybe you’re entering into the workforce for the first time, considering a career change or preparing for retirement.
What support can look like here: Counseling for career transitions, identity shifts, and the recalibration that often follows big life seasons. Drawing on our founder's fifteen-plus years in HR and her clinical training, this is a space to think clearly about what's next.
Includes support for: career transitions, professional decision-making, life recalibration, returning-to-work, taking a “power pause,” identity in early parenting.
For partners and non-birthing parents
The journeys that bring people to Fynbos rarely belong to just one person. Partners and non-birthing parents carry their own version of the experience, including (more often than is talked about) their own grief, anxiety, and postpartum mood shifts. There's care here for you too.
The kinds of care under our roof
Individuals, Couples & Family
[Therapy / Counseling]
In person or virtual. Specializing in perinatal mental health, fertility, career and life transitions, anxiety, depression, and grief.
Integrative Wellness Bodywork
Acupuncture, massage and complementary modalities offered by aligned practitioners. Care that meets you in the body, not just the mind.
Community & Connection
Group Offerings
Facilitated group offerings designed to gently undo the isolation so often woven through these journeys.
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart, and to try to love the questions themselves... Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday in the future, you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
The practical part
While most services at Fynbos are direct pay, we now have a provider who accepts insurance. For details about who accepts insurance, please visit our Meet the Practitioners page, discuss in your consultation call, or note your insurance-related questions in the contact form when you reach out.
A few things that may help:
HSA and HRA funds can typically be used for our services.
Out-of-network counseling benefits can be navigated through Thrizer, which helps clients understand and access reimbursement from their insurance.
We recommend confirming your individual benefits directly with your insurance company.
If cost is a barrier, please reach out. We'd rather have a conversation than have you walk away.
Not sure where you fit? That's okay.
Many of our clients come to us somewhere between phases, or in more than one at once. A free fifteen to twenty minute consultation is the gentlest way to figure out what kind of support might serve you best.