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| Dr. Michael Ogunkoya, MD, The Hope Valley Fertility Clinic |
It dips into the couples’
relationship and could destabilize their self-esteem. Their relationship with their parents,
friends, neighbours, colleagues etc. gets distorted in search for solutions
with the feeling of a social stigma. It
breeds loneliness, apathy, and sometimes separation and divorce. It is a great
threat in the dreams of one’s future.
These few but overwhelming
challenges of emotional stress, crisis and implications can only be best
described by the ones so affected by infertility. Counseling is the friend with
a listening ear, a patient guide, a reliable comforter, a motivator to carry on
and a supporter for all weather.
In the passage of our daily lives
and in our interactions with others, we undergo so many forms of emotional
challenges frequently evoking anxiety, stress and depression. Some we can cope
with by learning from others yet some destabilize us. In such times, counseling
is required to ensure a stable emotional state. It gives an opportunity to
explore ourselves, thoughts, our feelings and beliefs in order to come to a
greater understanding of the emerging situation.
Counseling can be brought to bear
in so many specified issues such as performing its role in the care and
emotional treatment concerning fertility services. It becomes apparent between
infertile couples towards and on the realization and acknowledgement of their
predicament, a major breakthrough leading to series of medical consultation.
Incidentally, fertility
consultation with focus on I.V.F treatment differs significantly from other
medical consultation in obstetrics and gynaecology clinics. It involves an invasive nature of tests and a
great impact on the couple’s intimate life but an inevitable process to
determine an appropriate treatment.
This presents fundamental issues
of further stress on how to cope with the treatment procedures which if not
properly handled could have a negative influence on the outcome of the
treatment’s success. Counseling is to let the person know that they are not
alone and there are people adequately trained to care and assist them through
such time.
Thus, counseling forms a crucial
component of care and emotional treatment in fertility services. Couples need
to express themselves to an understanding counselor who encourages, reassures
and supports them throughout the cycles of repeated diagnostics procedures,
interventions and medical treatment that can be successful but often are not.
At The Hope Valley Fertility Clinic, we
offer all these and many more. In addition to meeting with the counselor,
counseling is further optionally provided through the patient support in a
forum of interactive discussion with patients who have successfully completed
the I.V.F treatment and clients currently undertaking the cycles. You are free
and encouraged to tour the clinic facilities and treatment equipment, meeting
key members of the fertility services for an on the spot encounter and the
appreciation of what it takes to give the best of service to you.
Remember to seek and acquaint
yourself with the counseling services, it is a part of the treatment that makes
the difference in your care. Please, contact Dr. Michael Ogunkoya on: 0803369466
for further information and appointment with the counselor.
DR. M.O. OGUNKOYA
Managing Director / CEO
08033069466
The Hope Valley Fertility Clinic
Plot 31, Block 113,
Gbemileke Akinsonwon Street, Opposite Treasure Garden, By Ikate Roundabout,
Lekki Phase 1, Lagos-Epe Express Way, Lagos.
08033069466
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