Jul 14, 2018
Interview with Alice (Ally) Domar & Elizabeth (Liz) Grill
The psychological journey through infertility for a man is a lonely confusing one. Most men recoil due to ignorance or ego, and the ones that try to step in and play active role do so with little support or understanding of how to 'be' with their wife through this difficult time. Well, Ally and Liz have gone to great lengths to try and remedy this situation. They have planted the seed and now it is all of our turn to help 'fertilize' the male mental-emotional side of modern reproduction. ~ Spence
Email
domar@domarcenter.com
lizgrill@yahoo.com
Websites
ferticalm.com
fertistrong.com
ALICE DOMAR
Professional Profile
1980 BA Colby College, Waterville Maine
1986 MA and Ph.D in Health Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York
NY
1987 Massachusetts clinical psychologist license
Author or co-author of seven books including Conquering
Infertility
Co-founder of the new apps FertiCalm and FertiStrong
Leading expert on the relationship between stress and
infertility
Board Member for Resolve: The National Infertility Organization,
2006-2016
Currently Executive Director, Domar Centers for Mind/Body
Health
Director of Integrative Care at Boston IVF
Senior Staff Psychologist, Dept of Ob/Gyn, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Biology, part-time, Harvard Medical School
ELIZABETH GRILL
Professional Profile
Director of Psychological Services at the Ronald O. Perelman and
Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine
Associate Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine and Psychiatry of Weill
Cornell Medical College
Assistant Attending Psychologist at New York-Presbyterian
Hospital.
Experienced psychologist and medical researcher with a special
focus on the emotional aspects of infertility, IVF treatment, third
party reproduction, fertility preservation, oncofertility, stress
and infertility, and sexual dysfunction.
Postdoctoral training includes a fellowship year at the Center for
Reproductive Medicine of Weill Cornell Medical College.
Trained and certified at the Mind/Body Institute at Harvard Medical
School and developed and conducts stress management workshops for
infertility patients focusing on relaxation techniques, cognitive
restructuring, assertiveness skills and other helpful ways to
manage emotional distress
Completed a two-year fellowship as a sex therapist at the Human
Sexuality Program, Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York
Presbyterian Hospital, founded over thirty years ago by Dr. Helen
S. Kaplan.
Member of the National Register of Health Service Providers in
Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and was Past
Chair of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Served two terms on the Content Review Committee of the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine. Executive Board of RESOLVE, the
national infertility association and is the Continuing Education
Officer on the Executive Council for The Society for Sex Therapy
and Research.
Cofounded and is CEO of FertiCalm, an app that provides coping
strategies to manage infertility related distress.
Editorial reviewer for Fertility and Sterility and Journal of
Andrology.