Meet Our Presenters

Erica Mindes, PhD is a licensed psychologist at the Seleni Institute in New York City, where she provides counseling to individuals and couples struggling with infertility, the stress of treatment, pregnancy loss, and other reproductive health issues. She also works with participants pursuing third-party reproduction arrangements, including conducting intended parent consults, and gamete donor and gestational carrier assessments. Prior to joining the Seleni Institute in 2021, she was located in Richmond, Virginia, where she was as Associate with the practice of Covington & Hafkin and on the counseling staff of Shady Grove Fertility for over a decade. 

Dr. Mindes has conducted research, written and presented on the psychological sequalae of infertility and fertility treatment. She is a Past Chair and Executive Board Member of the Mental Health Professional Group (MHPG) of ASRM, and has served on the Mentoring Committee, Demographics and Coding Task Force, Membership Committee, and Bylaws, Policies and Procedures Committee. She is currently a member of the MHPG Clinical Training Task Force."