A group of childless therapists will share insights about the tensions people without children can face at work around their time and value. We'll explore reproductive story, intersecting identities, and the cumulative effect on one's career and sense of self.
Our time together will conclude with prompts for ongoing reflection to validate and honor your experience and connect to your own authority.
DATE: Friday 18th September
TIME: 7.00pm BST - Find your timezone HERE
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PANELLISTS
Katie Maynard - US
Katie Maynard, LICSW, brings over two decades of experience in psychotherapy, clinical research, and community-based social work. Drawing on narrative and feminist therapy, she helps clients reclaim their own stories and challenge societal expectations
around their parent status. Her own experience of childlessness shapes her clinical work and fuels her heartfelt advocacy for better mental health care for people without children.
Beyond her private practice, Katie offers supervision, consultation, and training to help providers build clinical competency and deliver childless-affirmative care. She is a self-titled Childless Craft Lady and loves to meet fellow makers within the community.
Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle - Canada
World Childless Week Ambassador
Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle is a Montreal based TRA,Therapist for relationship assistance™, Gateway
Women Facilitator, speaker, celebrant and founder of Femme Sans Enfant . Specializing in childlessness grief and supporting women who are childless by circumstance, she offers support groups online in French and English (FSE Circles), conferences, and an online presence grounded in humanity, sensitivity, and authenticity since 2012. Through her work, she helps break the silence surrounding infertility, non-motherhood, and often invisible forms of grief.
She has been an ambassador of the World Childless Week for 9 years.
Anna Hornbostel - USA
Anna Hornbostel, LMFT #129309, is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the United States, specializing in connection‑rich, attachment‑focused, trauma‑informed care
grounded in evidence‑based practice for those navigating grief, loss, life, and identity transitions.
With lived experience of being childless not by choice after male‑factor infertility, Anna offers compassionate support to clients with complex reproductive stories, helping them build resilience, cultivate supportive resources, and develop identity outside traditional parenthood‑centered narratives.
Tanya Hubbard - Canada
Tanya is a counsellor, coach, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner based in Vancouver, Canada. With a background in Gender Studies and Social Justice, she is passionate about bringing a justice-informed lens to both her clinical work and advocacy.
She supports people navigating a wide range of life experiences, with a particular focus on grief and trauma. Her lived experience of pregnancy loss, fertility treatments, and ultimately not becoming a parent led to a deep commitment to supporting others who are childless not by choice.
When she isn't working, Tanya is exploring nature, trying the latest recipe she discovered on Instagram, spending time with the people she loves, and, more often than not, she’s doing this with her French Bulldog sidekick.
Megan Rees - USA
Megan Rees is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and organizational development consultant who has spent 20 years figuring out why smart, capable people are so exhausted by modern work. She specializes in burnout, ADHD, and the particular grind of being a high performer whose brain never quite shuts off.
Before going into private practice (this time), she spent 14 years in learning and development, including work at Twitter helping distributed teams collaborate before anyone called it a challenge. She is a certified Fearless Organization Practitioner, a drama therapist, and a screenwriter, which means she brings both clinical depth and the ability to make hard conversations actually bearable.
She sees individuals for therapy and ADHD assessment in Oakland and across California and coaching worldwide. She also works with organizations on the culture and leadership conditions that burn people out.
