Meet Our Presenter

  Claudia Pascale, PhD is a licensed psychologist and founder of Reproductive Mental Health Associates in Montclair, NJ. She served for 22 years as Director of Psychological and Support Services at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, now CCRM. Dr. Pascale has held key roles in the field, including past Chair and Executive Board Member of the ASRM Mental Health Professional Group, Mental Health Representative to the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART), and member of the Resolve Mental Health Advisory Group. She supports individuals and couples navigating family-building through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and third-party reproduction, offering guidance before conception and during the perinatal period. Dr. Pascale  conducts psychological assessments for egg, sperm, and embryo donors, as well as gestational surrogates, and provides supervision for professionals in reproductive mental health. Dr. Pascale also serves on the advisory boards of Brownstone Surrogacy and ZURI Fertility, a personalized digital fertility clinic. Her research focuses on psychometric assessments for third-party reproduction participants and the psychological implications of sex selection, topics she has presented at national and international conferences.