CAMILLE GUATY
LISA SCHUMAN, LCSW
Founding Director of The Center for Family Building
A licensed therapist for more than three decades, Ms. Schuman served as Director of Mental Health Services for Illume Fertility and Gay Parents to Be for almost a decade. She is also a consultant for schools and corporations, and has worked with organizations such as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Gay and Lesbian Community Center, The Family Equality Council, and Single Mothers by Choice.
CAROLYN BERGER, LCSW
Carolyn has been helping people build families through fertility treatment and adoption for over 25 years. Once her clients become parents, she is available for consultation on issues ranging from disclosing donor or adoption information to young children to coping with the needs of children who have learning differences.
Carolyn provides consultation to fertility clinics, individuals and couples. She counsels people dealing with pregnancy loss through the National Council for Jewish Women.
She is Founding Board Chair of Path2Parenthood and is on the board of Family Equality Council. She is a member of ASRM's Mental Health Professionals Group.
Carolyn is both a biological and an adoptive parent.
THE SHARON MOMS
LAUREN DONATO, MA, LMHC
Lauren has been helping people live their best lives for fifteen years. Her initial interest in working in the area of fertility treatment came from her own personal journey. Through personal experience, Lauren learned the value of support and guidance during family building. In addition to her graduate degree, Lauren completed a post graduate course in reproductive counseling. She is available for consultation on topics including, but not limited to, fertility treatments, gamate donation, single parent and LGBTQ family building.
JEFF LEVIN, LCSW
Jeff is a Clinical Social Worker who has extensive experience in helping intended parents through their family building process. He works with individuals and couples on relationship concerns, preparing for parenthood, and has a specialty in issues specific to the LGBTQ and Jewish community.
Jeff has delivered workshops at family building conferences and worked for many years at New York City's LGBT Community Center where he ran programs for families and created programming for the Center's annual Expo.
Jeff has a Masters Degree in Social Work from Columbia University, and is currently participating in post-graduate training in clinical work with couples from the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy.
TRISHA CORNWELL
In her own words, Trisha Cornwell is a Solo Mama trying to simplify life with smart products, systems, and routines. She is an influencer, an author of a single moms workbook to help women pursing solo parenthood through donor conception, and is a compassionate and caring advocate for single mothers everywhere.
KATHY STANTON, PHD
Kathy Stanton is a clinical psychologist who has been working with infants, children and families for over a decade. She trained at UCSF’s Infant-Parent Program, where she specialized in perinatal mental health, infant-parent psychotherapy, and early childhood mental health consultation. She has worked as a Psychologist in a Fetal care center and Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care unit where she supported caregivers and provided consultation to improve infant and caregiver mental health, coping and attachment.
Kathy is available for consultation around promoting and maintaining positive relationships with gestational carriers and your partner through the journey, preparing for parenthood as a couple or single parent, postpartum adjustment and parenting among others.
TONI LEO, PHD
Toni Leo, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with specialty training in Medical & Health Psychology. For over 25 yrs she has worked with a variety of clients who have co-occurring psychological and health issues, provided assessments for individuals seeking medical procedures, in addition to consulting and being an invited speaker in the community on various healthcare topics.
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JENN CLAIR
Jenn is the Membership Community Manager at The Center for Family Building. She is a mom of three girls, two of which were conceived through the help of fertility treatment after struggling to conceive. Jenn is a teacher and has a heart for helping others. She ensures that members of The Building Your Family Community feel heard and guides them to the resources they may need for support on their journey.
SHEILA LAMB
Sheila serves as the Community Manager at The Center for Family Building. Sheila had a six-year unexplained infertility journey that involved fertility treatment and loss. A week after her forty-seventh birthday, she welcomed her rainbow daughter into the world, who was conceived using a donor egg. Sheila now supports the TTC and loss community through her This is fertility book series - a collection of real-life short stories, straight from the heart, about the emotional realities of infertility, fertility treatments and loss.
DAN RONOH
Dan Ronoh is the Website Manager at The Center for Family Building, where he specializes in maintaining and optimizing the organization’s digital infrastructure. With a focus on website functionality, automation, and user experience, Dan ensures the center’s online platforms effectively serve families navigating the challenges of building their future.