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What happens when the host becomes the guest?

In this special Season 1 finale of Perinatal and Reproductive Perspectives, editor Oumar sits down with host Becky Morrison-Gleed to look back on the conversations, stories, and insights that shaped the first season.

Together, they reflect on the themes that emerged across the series, the moments that stayed with Becky, what she has learned from the guests she interviewed, and why creating space for diverse perspectives in perinatal and reproductive health matters.

It’s a chance to step behind the microphone, revisit the journey so far, and consider what these conversations can teach us as we look ahead to the next season.

Thank you for being part of Season 1—and for listening, learning, and sharing these perspectives with us.

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In this episode, Sharon Covington explores the clinical dimensions of fertility counseling and the essential role counseling plays throughout the fertility care journey. She discusses how clinicians can support patients as they navigate complex diagnoses, treatment decisions, uncertainty, and the emotional challenges that often accompany infertility and fertility treatment.

Drawing on her expertise in reproductive health and counseling, Sharon offers practical insights into integrating psychosocial care with medical treatment, communicating effectively with patients, and recognizing the clinical considerations that can shape the counseling process.

Whether you are a fertility specialist, mental health professional, nurse, embryologist, or other member of the reproductive care team, this conversation provides valuable perspective on delivering compassionate, informed, and patient-centered fertility care.

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Sharon Covington helped invent a field that didn't exist when she started. Decades before fertility counseling had a name, a curriculum, or a professional home, she was in the room with patients navigating infertility, donor conception, and the emotional weight of reproductive medicine, building the frameworks, ethics standards, and support models that the field now takes for granted. In this episode, Sharon walks us through the early days of reproductive psychology, the moments that convinced her patients needed more than medical care alone, and how she helped shape fertility counseling into the recognized profession it is today. We talk about the cases that changed her thinking, the resistance she faced along the way, and what she still wants the next generation of counselors to understand about sitting with people at some of the hardest moments of their lives.

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