A whole-body approach to getting pregnant after 35.
Personalized herbal and holistic fertility support to help you understand what your body needs, support healthier function, and create a stronger foundation for pregnancy.
If pregnancy still isn’t happening, there may be more to understand about what your body needs.
Maybe your periods are regular, but you still aren’t getting pregnant.
Maybe your cycles are unpredictable or your period has disappeared altogether.
Or maybe your labs look “normal,” but you know something’s off.
You may have already tried supplements, diet changes, hormone testing, medications, or fertility tracking without ever feeling like someone stepped back and looked at the whole picture.
That’s what I do differently.
Instead of focusing on one hormone, one symptom, or one lab result at a time, I look at how your health history, cycle, symptoms, nutrition, stress, and overall health fit together.
Then we use what we learn to create support that is specific to you.
Personalized support because every woman is unique
Lisa, age 43: From failed IVF to conceiving naturally
Lisa came to me after a failed IVF cycle. She had been told she was entering early menopause after a round of medicated IVF had made her ovulation and period stop for 4 months. She was told she’d need a donor egg if she wanted to try IVF again.
But after a detailed in-take session, I got to know Lisa as a person, and formed a bigger, holistic picture of her. I was able to see where she needed support to bring her back to baseline, then build up towards optimal chances of pregnancy.
Thin uterine lining, poor quality follicles, a short luteal phase, low basal body temperatures, and other symptoms gave us a picture of what her body needed. But I also looked at her Spirit, nervous system, and story.
I created personalized herbal support around what we were seeing and continued adjusting our work as her body responded.
Lisa began having ovulatory cycles within 1 month of working together, and within 6 months, conceived naturally and had a healthy baby girl.
“In the mainstream healthcare model, you are just a number. Veronica makes you feel like a person.” - Lisa
You want to get pregnant. You also want to know you’re doing something meaningful to support it.
When you’re over 35, almost every conversation about fertility seems to come with a clock attached. You may have already been told to move quickly or start thinking about medication, IUI, or IVF.
But wanting to understand and support your body doesn’t mean you aren’t taking your fertility seriously.
It means you want to know why pregnancy isn’t happening, what may need more support, and what you can actually do with the time you’re spending trying to conceive.
My work gives us room to look at those questions closely and create a plan around your body, not somebody else’s.
Introducing
Conception: a feminine path to call in your baby
Four months of personalized fertility support for women 35+ who are struggling to get pregnant.
Conception is for the woman who is tired of piecing together fertility advice on her own and wants someone looking at the whole picture with her. It’s four months of me paying very close attention to you, and adjusting our approach as your body recalibrates in real time.
Inside Conception, you’ll receive:
Private sessions every two weeks
Personalized herbal care and custom monthly formulas mailed to your house
Nutrition, lifestyle, and supplement support
Individualized Fertility Awareness Method charting instruction because it gives us invaluable information
Unlimited messaging between sessions
Ongoing adjustments as your body and needs change
Meet Your Herbalist
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Veronica Ricksen, Clinical Herbalist RH(AHG)
Hello! I’m a Registered Clinical Herbalist and certified Fertility Awareness Educator specializing in menstrual health, hormones, and fertility.
I’ve spent 10 years helping women understand bodies they were often taught very little about.
And I’ve seen how frustrating it can be to get one isolated answer after another when the question you really want answered is much bigger: why am I not getting pregnant, and what can I do about it?
There can be a lot to understand and support when we stop looking at fertility like one isolated issue.
My goal is to help you understand your body more clearly, support healthier function, and give you a plan that is made for you.
I can't make any promises about something so sacred as creating life itself. But I can say that what you learn through working with me will leave you better off, and God willing, lead to a baby.
Your fertility is connected to your whole body.
Irregular or missing periods (and ovulation), hormone concerns, PCOS symptoms, fibroids, or everything checking out just fine, but still no pregnancy.
Your body doesn’t experience those things separately. They’re all part of a very important picture.
Depending on what your body needs, our work may include personalized herbal medicine, nutrition, lifestyle changes, supplements, and fertility awareness charting because it gives us invaluable insights you won’t glean from anything else.
The goal is to help you understand what your body is communicating, make meaningful changes that helps your body function better, and leads to a strong foundation for a healthy pregnancy.
