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| LAURYN SALASSI GILLIAM, PhD, ABD, MFT | ||||||||||||||
| Lauryn was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and graduated from Louisiana State University. She then went on to achieve a successful career in sales and marketing until she was diagnosed with primary infertility at the age of 35. With mid life worries, career burnout and the 3 year struggle to achieve a successful pregnancy she began searching for an alternate purpose for her life.
After much soul searching, she quit her job, started infertility treatments and enrolled in Nova Southeastern University in the Marriage and Family Therapy Master's Program and the Medical Family Therapy Certificate Program respectively. She graduated with her Master's in the summer of 2006 but during her stint in the program she took on a real passion for helping other women and couples who have or are struggling with infertility. This includes struggles for conception, miscarriage, donor egg and donor egg recipient patients, as well as donor sperm and donor sperm recipient patients. She works with relationships, communication and sexual issues surrounding infertility as well as the stress related to infertility medical protocol. She also works with transition to motherhood through live birth, adoption and high risk pregnancies as well as premature births and grief. She is currently obtaining her Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University and expanding her business where she strives to bridge the gap between therapeutic and medical worlds through education of patients, staff and doctors about the benefits of stress reduction around medical treatments to promote the best possible outcome. Because Lauryn understands that relationships are the driving force of successful businesses she also provides the unique service of a relationship systems consultant. As a relationship systems consultant she works with businesses and/or medical offices on assessing the way their business and departments within their business and staff are interrelated and how they relate together. These assessments can lead to insight that may increase satisfaction within the company around human resources issues, productivity issues and more. Lauryn has been married to husband Todd and have their little miracle Peyton Ashley after 3 difficult years trying to conceive and finally succeeding through In Vitro Fertilization with the help of IVF Reproductive Associates. |
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