A clear account of what Heather Kish does, what she cannot do, how this work sits alongside medical fertility care, and what the research says about the factors coaching actually addresses.
Fertility coaching involves three things: education about the physiological factors that influence fertility, personalized support for identifying and addressing what is within your reach, and guidance through the emotional and relational dimensions of unexplained infertility.
A fertility coach does not diagnose conditions, prescribe medications, perform procedures, or manage medical treatment. Those responsibilities belong to your reproductive endocrinologist and medical team. A fertility coach works in the space that medical appointments typically do not reach.
Making sense of test results, cycle patterns, and what your labs do and don’t tell you about your fertility. Building the picture your medical appointments may not have time to explain.
Identifying and implementing changes to nutrition, environmental exposures, nervous system regulation, and metabolic health that the research connects to the follicular environment and egg quality.
Preparing for appointments, formulating questions, understanding protocols, deciding when to seek a second opinion, and holding the emotional weight of unexplained infertility without it driving every decision.
This matters. And Heather says it plainly.
What standard fertility care does exceptionally well: it diagnoses structural and hormonal conditions, manages stimulation protocols, performs egg retrievals and embryo transfers, and measures the variables medicine knows how to measure.
What it does not typically have time to address: the 90-day physiological window before retrieval, the nutritional and metabolic environment of the developing follicle, the effect of chronic stress on the hormonal cascade that drives ovulation, and the documented psychological burden of unexplained infertility. That is the space this work occupies.
Heather Kish is a certified fertility health coach and the founder of Harvest Health with Heather. She is not a physician or licensed medical provider.
Her specific expertise sits at the intersection of four areas:
The lived experience dimension. Heather spent four years navigating unexplained infertility. She had three pregnancy losses. She was diagnosed with fibroids and hormonal imbalance. She went through IVF. She conceived at 44. She built this work from that experience, and from the research she had to find herself because no one handed it to her. That does not substitute for medical training. It does mean she understands this experience from the inside, not from a textbook.
The Egg Awakening is Heather’s 90-day one-to-one fertility coaching program. It moves through three phases, each grounded in the physiology of the phase it is designed to address.
Most women who work with Heather are already under the care of a fertility clinic. Some are between IVF cycles. Some are preparing for their first retrieval. Some are trying to conceive naturally while exploring medical options. A few are deciding whether to pursue treatment at all.
In all of these situations, coaching and medical care address different questions.
Heather does not advise against medical treatment, does not recommend stopping treatment, and does not suggest that lifestyle changes are sufficient to address conditions that require medical management. If you are working with a fertility clinic, that relationship continues. Coaching supports the same goal from a different angle.
Fertility coaching involves education about the physiological factors that influence fertility, personalized review of lifestyle, nutrition, environmental exposures, and stress patterns, and structured support for implementing changes. A fertility coach helps women understand their test results in context, identify areas within their influence, prepare for and advocate within medical appointments, and navigate the emotional dimensions of infertility. Coaching is not diagnosis, medical advice, or treatment.
No. Fertility coaching is not a substitute for reproductive medical care. A reproductive endocrinologist diagnoses conditions, manages hormonal protocols, performs procedures, and supervises medical fertility treatment. A fertility coach works in the space that medical care does not typically address: nutrition, lifestyle, nervous system regulation, environmental factors, and the emotional experience of infertility. Most women who work with Heather are already under the care of a fertility clinic. Coaching is designed to complement that care, not replace it.
Heather Kish is a certified fertility health coach and the founder of Harvest Health with Heather. She is not a physician, reproductive endocrinologist, or licensed medical provider. Her specific expertise is the intersection of egg quality physiology, nervous system regulation, nutritional and metabolic health for fertility, environmental medicine, and the emotional architecture of unexplained infertility. She also brings lived experience: four years of unexplained infertility, three pregnancy losses, a fibroid diagnosis, and an IVF conception at 44.
The Egg Awakening is Heather’s 90-day root-cause fertility coaching program. It moves through three phases: Fertility Block Mapping, which identifies physiological contributors to fertility challenges not typically addressed in a standard workup; From Overlooked to Empowered, which addresses the emotional and self-advocacy dimensions; and the Predictable Path to Conception, which implements targeted changes to egg quality, nervous system regulation, nutrition, and environmental factors. The program is one-to-one coaching. It is not a supplement protocol, a medical treatment, or a guarantee of pregnancy.
Coaching can support the physiological conditions in which eggs develop. Egg quality is shaped by multiple factors in the 90 days before ovulation or retrieval: mitochondrial function, oxidative stress in follicular fluid, nutritional and hormonal status, and the stress load the body is carrying. These factors are addressable through targeted nutrition, supplementation, nervous system regulation, and environmental modification. What coaching cannot do is reverse age-related chromosomal changes, replace medical diagnosis, or override biology. The goal is to optimize what is within reach.
General wellness coaching addresses broad health and lifestyle goals. Heather’s work is specifically focused on the physiology of female fertility: egg quality and the 90-day maturation window, the HPA-HPG axis and how chronic stress suppresses reproductive hormones, follicular fluid composition and what reaches it from the bloodstream, metabolic and blood sugar factors that affect the ovarian environment, and the documented psychological dimensions of infertility. The content in this directory is grounded in published research in reproductive endocrinology, psychoneuroendocrinology, nutrition science, and environmental medicine.
The Egg Awakening is where we stop guessing—and start understanding what’s actually been blocking your body from getting pregnant. We connect the patterns, support your body at the root level, and give you a path that finally makes sense.