You've come to the right place.Fertility.
Compassionate, individualised care through fertility treatment and IVF, working alongside your medical team.
Trying to conceive can place an enormous load on your body, your routines and your emotional wellbeing. We provide acupuncture and Chinese medicine care tailored to where you are: preparing to conceive, living with cycle symptoms, moving through IVF or recovering between cycles. Your fertility specialist leads the medical treatment; we provide complementary care around you as a person.
About Your Practitioner
Maria Cappello came to Chinese medicine through her own journey with unexplained infertility and IVF. She understands this process from the inside: the uncertainty, the monitoring appointments, the two-week waits. Her clinical focus is fertility, IVF support, PCOS, and endometriosis.
Care Through A Demanding Process
You are more than a protocol.
Your appointments begin with what you are experiencing now, what your medical team is doing, and what would make this stage feel more manageable.
What we focus on
The concerns you bring into the room: cycle symptoms, headaches, bloating, fatigue, muscular tension, stress and the practical strain of treatment. We will also recognise when a concern belongs back with your fertility clinic.
Continuity and understanding
Fertility treatment can feel like a sequence of numbers and appointments. Here, you have time to talk through how you are coping and receive care from a practitioner who understands IVF personally as well as professionally.
Clear, respectful boundaries
Research has not established that acupuncture increases IVF pregnancy or live birth rates, so we do not promise an outcome. We agree on what you want support with, work alongside your specialist and review whether care is providing value.
Begin wherever you are: before a cycle, during stimulation, around transfer, through the two-week wait or between cycles. Your plan can be a small number of appointments or regular care, with no need to commit to a fixed package.
Fertility Care
Different starting points, one considered approach: care shaped around your concerns, medical plan and stage of treatment.
Comprehensive Fertility Assessment
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Preparing for Pregnancy
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Acupuncture & IVF Support
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Male Fertility Support
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Understanding Unknown Infertility
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BBT Tracking
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The Process
Initial Consultation
A ~90-minute deep dive into your health history, fertility timeline, and goals. Bring any blood work, scans, or specialist letters, plus cycle or BBT tracking data if you have it. Includes your first treatment.
Shared Priorities
We agree on the symptoms, concerns and day-to-day challenges that are appropriate to address, and identify anything that needs to return to your medical team.
Individualised Care
Your acupuncture treatment and any Chinese medicine recommendations are adapted to your presentation, medications and stage of treatment.
Review Together
Some people choose only a few appointments; others prefer regular care. We review whether it is useful and adjust or stop rather than assuming an open-ended program.
Initial consultation $170 (~90 mins) · follow-ups $100 · health fund rebates claimable on-site via HICAPS. See appointments & fees.
Browse our Resource Centre for more fertility and pregnancy guides.
Common Questions
Honest answers to the questions we hear most from fertility patients.
More questions? Visit our full FAQ page or contact the clinic.