Sharon N. Covington has enjoyed a long and successful career as an adult psychotherapist, providing highly specialized fertility counseling services in a number of settings and contexts. A Board Certified Diplomat in Clinical Social Work, she works in clinical practice and is Director of Psychological Support Services at Shady Grove Fertility. She is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and was an Associate Investigator with the Intramural Research Program on Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health.

Covington’s books include the highly influential Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians and Fertility Counseling: Clinical Guide and Case Studies. Her research has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals.

Covington has won a number of awards for her ground-breaking work, including the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Star Award, and in 2009 she was named one of Washington’s Top Therapists by The Washingtonian magazine.

Covington is an expert on miscarriage, infant death and stillbirth. In 1981, she helped established MIS Share, the first perinatal loss support group in metropolitan Washington, D.C.