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International Infertility  Counseling Organisation

International 2024

In summer 2024, IICO published a statement about

Psychosocial Counselling and Professional Support related to involuntary childlessness, including Implications over the life-course.
You can access this statement as a PDF here. Please feel free to ciruculate this amongst your professional networks.

Vienna 2019

On June,  22nd, from 10.00 to 17.00,  IICO together with the Austrian Psychology Organisation will hold the workshop  “Legal Changes in Austria – Developments since 2016”

You can download the programme and register here.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna!

Barcelona 2018

There will not be an IICO Workshop in Barcelona this year. Next year, ESHRE will be in Vienna and the Austrian colleagues have already started to organise a workshop there.

Welcome to the IICO

IICO is short for the International Infertility Counseling Organisation. IICO is the international umbrella organization for national fertility counseling organisations.

Our goal is to bring together professional organizations and individual practitioners in infertility counseling worldwide in order to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience and in order to further the development of infertility counseling. There are currently over 10 national organizations and we strive to hold a work-shop every two years in conjunction with international conferences.

If you are interested in events, browse our website and subscribe to our blog (see below). If you are interested in contacting like-minded professionals in other countries, send them an email. If you have any questions regarding IICO or suggestions you would like to make, please use the contact form to be in touch with us.

Linda Hammer Burns (USA)
burns023@umn.edu

Petra Thorn (DE)
mail@pthorn.de

Sheila Pike (UK)
sheilapike@hotmail.com

Uschi van den Broeck (BE)
uschi.vandenbroeck@uz.kuleuven.ac.be

Tewes Wischmann (DE)
Tewes.Wischmann@med.uni-heidelberg.de

PS. Parts of this website are currently work in progress. If you seek information but cannot find it, let us know!

Workshop for Infertility Counsellors in Geneva

Workshop for Infertility Counsellors in Geneva

  Just prior to the ESHRE conference, the Swiss Fertiforum together with IICO will hold the following workshop:   WORKSHOP IN GENEVA Saturday, 1 July, 2017 13:30 - 18:00   UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF GENEVA SWITZERLAND here you can download the PDF  ...

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Next presentation of Helsinki Workshop

Dear colleagues, the next presentation from our Helsinki workshop, presented by Claudia Lampic, is online. You can look at and download all presentations from this page: http://www.iico-infertilitycounseling.org/past-events/

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Carpe Fucking Diem

Carpe Fucking Diem This was the strong and emotional title of one presentation we had at our annual Workhop in Helsinki. Eline Brotherus, a Finnish photographer, published an autobiographic documentary on her journey through infertility. The photos are very powerful...

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Workshop on infertility counseling in Helsinki

Workshop on infertility counseling in Helsinki

Workshop on infertility counseling in Helsinki On the Saturday prior to the ESHRE conference in Helsinki, we had a very successful and well attended workshop focusing on third party family reproduction. There were approx. 40 participants from all over the world,...

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IICO Workshop in Helsinki – Finland on July 2nd, 2016

IICO together with the Finnish Infertility Counseling group will organize a half-day workshop in Helsinki, just prior to EHSRE The workshop will take place on July, 2nd, 2016 from approx. 12.00 to 18.00 and will focus on third party reproduction. We will post the...

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New counseling organization in South Africa

New counseling organization in South Africa The SASREG Psychology and Counselling Special Interest Group was formed on the 31 October 2015. The main task of the group is to set up goals for psychologists involved in field of ART. Our current goals are to share best...

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Canada: International Conference

On September 7th 2015, will be held Infertility Without Borders, the first international conference on infertility awareness. The event will bring together representatives of patient groups from across the globe, healthcare professionals and local policy-makers. The...

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