Meet Our Speaker

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Psychoanalyst

Private Practice

New York, NY

 Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP is a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private  practice for over 35 years working with individuals/couples/groups dealing with infertility and  parenting after infertility.  She graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1979 and completed her  analytic training at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in 1992, serving on the  faculty and as a training fellow. For the past 20 years, she has led the Third Party Parenting Network (TPPN), a support group  for those pursuing donor assisted reproduction with an emphasis on issues related to  disclosure. She co authored, with Dr. Loree Johnson, the lead case study chapter in Fertility Counseling:  Clinical Guide and Case Studies, 2nd Edition, newly released by Cambridge University Press. Her paper, co-authored with Dr. Nancy Freeman-Carroll, “Disclosure in Donor Assisted  Reproduction: A Clinician’s Guide to Four Stages of Adjustment” was presented at ASRM  2017, ApsyA 2018 & IPA London 2019. An article, co-authored with Dr. Linda Applegarth, “Parental disclosure to offspring created with  oocyte donation : Intentions versus Reality”, was published in Human Reproduction in 2016.  She is licensed in NY, NJ and CT