The CREATE Programme
Creative Support Through Fertility & Beyond.
Trying to Conceive.
Trying to conceive — and living with fertility challenges — can affect every part of life: emotional wellbeing, relationships, identity, and future hopes.
This 8‑session creative therapy programme offers a confidential, compassionate space for individuals or couples to explore and process their fertility journey using creative therapeutic approaches. The focus is not on fixing or outcomes, but on supporting you emotionally through what you are experiencing.
What Is Creative Therapy?
Creative therapy uses gentle, expressive methods such as imagery, art‑making, metaphor, and reflection to help explore emotions that can be difficult to put into words.
You do not need any creative skills. The process is led and supported by a trained therapist, with care taken to work at your pace and within your comfort.
The CREATE Programme.
Fertility journeys can involve repeated cycles of hope and loss, invasive treatment, prolonged waiting, and significant emotional strain. These experiences often impact mental health, relationships, and sense of self, yet are not always fully held within medical settings.
The CREATE Programme has been developed to offer structured emotional support through creative therapy, providing IVF Babble members with access to specialist, inclusive therapeutic care alongside or outside medical treatment.
What the Programme Can Support
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Emotional overwhelm, anxiety, or numbness
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Strain on relationships or communication
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Feelings of grief, loss, or disconnection
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Identity shifts and loss of confidence
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Learning how to live alongside uncertainty
Exclusive Create Programme offered to IVF Babble members.
The CREATE Programme is an 8‑session creative therapy programme offering emotional support to individuals and couples navigating fertility challenges and the complex experiences that surround them.
Exclusively available to IVF Babble members, the CREATE Programme provides a confidential, inclusive space to explore emotions, relationships, identity, and uncertainty using creative therapeutic approaches rather than relying solely on talking.
The programme is flexible and responsive, supporting:
Individuals or couples
People at any stage of a fertility journey
All routes to family‑building, without assumption or emphasis
The focus remains firmly on emotional wellbeing, connection, and resilience, whatever the fertility journey involves.
Sessions use creative therapy approaches (art‑making, metaphor, imagery, gentle reflection and dialogue) rather than relying solely on talking. No creative experience is needed.
The programme adapts to:
Individuals or couples
Any fertility journey or family‑building path
People at different stages (trying, treatment, waiting, deciding, post‑treatment)
Structure: 8 Sessions (60–90 minutes each) online.
The CREATE Programme
8‑Session Creative Therapy Structure
Exclusive to IVF Babble members
Session 1 – Creating Safety & Therapeutic Containment
Purpose: Establish trust, emotional safety, and a shared understanding of needs.
Introduction to creative therapy and how sessions will work
Exploring what has brought you here (individually or together)
Gentle creative grounding exercise to support safety and presence
Identifying hopes, concerns, and boundaries for the programme
Focus: Feeling held, understood, and supported from the outset.
Session 2 – The Emotional Impact of the Fertility Journey
Purpose: Gently explore the emotional weight often carried silently.
Creating space for feelings such as grief, anxiety, anger, hope, numbness, or exhaustion
Using creative expression to externalise emotions without pressure to explain or “fix” them
Normalising complex and conflicting emotional responses
Focus: Emotional validation and safe expression.
Session 3 – Identity, Self‑Worth & the Impact on Sense of Self
Purpose: Explore how fertility experiences affect identity.
How fertility challenges can influence self‑image, confidence, and self‑worth
Creative exploration of “who I am / who we are” beyond fertility and treatment
Reconnecting with parts of self that may feel lost or overshadowed
Focus: Identity beyond fertility.
Session 4 – Relationship, Connection & Communication
(Adapted for individuals or couples)
For couples:
Exploring different emotional responses and coping styles
Creative methods to support understanding without blame or fixing
Strengthening emotional connection and communication
For individuals:
Exploring inner dialogue, self‑criticism, and self‑compassion
Understanding internal conflicts and emotional needs
Focus: Connection — with self or each other.
Session 5 – Uncertainty, Waiting & Loss of Control
Purpose: Support emotional resilience during prolonged uncertainty.
Exploring the psychological impact of waiting and “not knowing”
Creative work around control, trust, and tolerance of uncertainty
Identifying internal resources and grounding strategies
Focus: Managing uncertainty with compassion.
Session 6 – Hope, Fear & Emotional Protection
Purpose: Work with hope and fear as co‑existing experiences.
Exploring how hope can feel risky after loss or disappointment
Creative expression of fear, guardedness, or emotional withdrawal
Finding ways to remain emotionally present without overwhelm
Focus: Staying open while protecting emotional wellbeing.
Session 7 – Meaning, Choice & Looking Forward
Purpose: Reflect on personal meaning and future direction.
Exploring what this journey has changed, challenged, or revealed
Clarifying values, boundaries, and personal needs moving forward
Creative exploration of choice, agency, and self‑trust
Focus: Empowerment and perspective.
Session 8 – Integration, Closure & Reflection
Purpose: Bring the programme to a contained and meaningful close.
Reflecting on the journey through the CREATE Programme
Creating a final piece to symbolise resilience, growth, or connection
Acknowledging endings and transitions
Signposting to further support if desired
Focus: Integration and gentle closure.
Format & Flexibility Offered online or in person (if applicable) Adapted in real time to meet the needs of: Individuals Couples Mixed emotional experiences within a partnership Pace adjusted depending on emotional capacity and current treatment stages
Getting Started
This programme is offered via referral from IVF Babble.
If you have been directed here and would like to book, or have questions about whether this programme is right for you, please get in touch using the contact details provided in your referral.
The CREATE Programme – Pricing
Exclusive to IVF Babble members
Individual Programme
8 × 60‑minute creative therapy sessions
£720 total
(£90 per session equivalent)
Couple Programme
8 × 75–90‑minute creative therapy sessions
£960 total
(£120 per session equivalent)
What the Fee Includes
A structured 8‑session therapeutic programme
Sessions tailored to individual or couple needs
Creative therapy materials and guided processes
A trauma‑informed, inclusive therapeutic approach
Continuity of care across the full programme
Payment Options
Full payment prior to the first session, or
Two instalments:
50% at booking
50% at session 4
Book The CREATE Programme
The CREATE Programme is offered as a contained 8‑session commitment to ensure therapeutic safety and depth
Sessions are non‑refundable once the programme has begun
Missed sessions are chargeable unless 48 hours’ notice is given