Lisa Schuman, LCSW

Lisa Schuman, LCSW (Licensed clinical social worker). Leading expert in family building helping people around the world build their own families. She’s Founder Director of The Center for Family Building, the former Chair of the Egg Freezing Task Force for the Mental Health Professional Group of the ASRM from its inception in 2008 until 2016. She sat on the board of the American Fertility Association and was a group leader for RESOLVE. She is also founding director of Adoption Cooperative Consultants, and is a supervisor and a member of the faculty at the Object Relations Institute. Lisa Schuman is three times awarded by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society for her work as the principal investigator for many studies in egg freezing. Personally based in New York with her husband and three children. Lisa’s story of family building includes almost every facet possible: fertility treatment, surgeries, alternative therapies, surrogacy and adoption and has lived through the struggles raising mainstream and special needs children. But it is these experiences that have become the foundation of her work.