Surrogacy Wellness Support
Professional emotional oversight that reduces rematch risk, protects your reputation, and keeps journeys on track.
Surrogacy involves more than contracts and medical appointments. It's a high-stakes emotional process that depends on stable relationships. When communication breaks down or stress goes unaddressed, journeys stall, rematches increase, and trust erodes.
The Surrogacy Wellness Support program provides consistent, professional oversight from a licensed therapist who specializes in third-party reproduction. It helps agencies monitor journey stability, prevent escalation, and ensure that both gestational carriers and intended parents feel supported from match through postpartum.
Why Agencies Use This
Gestational carriers don't pause their lives during a journey. Jobs shift, kids get sick, relationships have stress, family crises happen. Most of the time, these things are manageable. But when they pile up or happen at critical moments like transfer or third trimester, they can affect stability.
This program adds a licensed mental health professional to monitor those shifts in real time so your case managers aren't managing emotional crises on top of logistics.
Monthly check-ins provide ongoing oversight of home and work stability, relationship health, and emotional adjustment to pregnancy. You receive brief, practical updates that confirm everything is on track with immediate notification if concerns arise.
How It Works
Surrogacy Wellness Support is a flat-fee program that covers the full journey for the gestational carrier. Optional intended parent support can be added as a separate flat-fee package.
- Monthly check-ins with the gestational carrier (10 to 20 minutes by phone, text, or brief video)
- Family check-ins every few months with the GC's household. When applicable, this includes a short virtual conversation with her partner or children to gently check in, offer guidance, and make sure everyone supporting her feels seen and supported too.
- Brief summary to the case manager after each check-in covering home and work stability, emotional adjustment to pregnancy, relationship with intended parents, and any emerging concerns
- Immediate escalation support if an issue arises, more frequent or longer sessions that month. A mitigation plan is shared with the case manager and, when appropriate, communicated to IPs so they understand how it's being addressed and that the emotional side is being cared for
- Joint sessions for birth planning and post-birth closure
- Postpartum follow-up with the gestational carrier during the first three to six months
- On-demand consultations for intended parents if conflict, loss, or tension occurs
Optional Add-On: Intended Parent Support
- Three check-ins during the pregnancy (ideally once per trimester)
- One optional postpartum session
- A neutral space to address emotional stress, GC relationship dynamics, and evolving needs
- Continuity of care with the same mental health provider already supporting the surrogate
Benefits for Your Agency
Prevents costly rematches. Early intervention keeps journeys intact and moving forward.
Protects your reputation. Demonstrates proactive emotional oversight and clinical professionalism.
Reduces burnout. Case managers stay focused on their work without being pulled into emotional triage.
Improves satisfaction. Carriers feel seen and supported; intended parents feel confident and informed.
Differentiates your agency. Few agencies provide this level of oversight, giving you a tangible competitive advantage.
What Gestational Carriers Experience
This isn't therapy. It's structured support that feels low-pressure.
Most months, it's a quick check-in. When something harder comes up, they already have someone in place who understands surrogacy and knows how to help them manage it. This consistency helps carriers feel valued and emotionally grounded and more likely to complete the journey without complications.
Family Matters
In the support groups I run for gestational carriers, I include a brief poll covering different parts of their experience, including who they feel is their main support system. It’s never their case manager. It’s never the IPs or the mental health professional. It’s always their own family.
That’s why, a few times during the journey, I include a short virtual check-in with the GC’s partner or children (if applicable). It’s just a quick moment to connect and make sure the people behind her feel seen, too. If something’s on their mind - like a child who’s confused, or a partner unsure how to support - I can offer guidance, education, or help the GC advocate for what she needs. These check-ins give the family a chance to speak up, feel included, and know their role matters.
What Intended Parents Gain
Intended parents often carry a high level of anxiety throughout the journey. It can be hard to fully trust that the agency has their back, especially since the agency is also there to support the gestational carrier. Having an outside mental health provider monitoring the process offers a different kind of reassurance.
They know someone neutral is checking in, tracking emotional wellbeing, and keeping an eye on any potential concerns. If something difficult comes up, they’re informed early and updated on how it’s being addressed. They also have the option to raise concerns of their own directly with the clinician, and when those concerns are acknowledged and addressed, it often brings peace of mind.
This helps them feel more secure in the process and can ease some of the pressure or intensity they might otherwise place on the case manager.
Optional Add-On: Mental Health Check-Ins for Intended Parents
For agencies looking to offer more comprehensive care, this optional add-on includes structured support for intended parents alongside the surrogate’s wellness plan.
This includes:
Four sessions with the intended parents (flat-fee)
Three structured check-ins during pregnancy (ideally one per trimester)
One optional session in the postpartum period
A neutral space to address emotional stress, evolving needs, and GC relationship dynamics
Continuity of care with the same clinician supporting the surrogate
Many fertility clinics already require intended parents to meet with a mental health provider before approval. They comply because it’s expected. Agencies can take the same approach by building this in from the start. Most IPs are grateful for the support once it’s offered, even if they hesitate at first.
Together, this model creates a proactive mental health structure for the full surrogacy triad: gestational carrier, intended parents, and agency.
A Modern Standard of Care
Surrogacy already requires medical, legal, and logistical oversight. This adds the fourth pillar: emotional oversight.
Stable, supported journeys protect your agency's time, investment, and reputation while improving outcomes for everyone involved.
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