Sandra Cesna

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Sandra Cesna is a federally recognised psychotherapist who specialises in fertility and egg donation counselling in her practice, Mental Heroes. She is a board member of Fertiforum, a committee of the Swiss Society for Reproductive Medicine. She is part of the team currently drafting the guidelines for the legalisation of egg donation in Switzerland. She is a member of the Brocher Foundation's international team of experts on surrogacy and gamete donation. As a pioneer and advocate of open egg donation, Sandra Cesna has been instrumental in raising awareness and acceptance of this method in Switzerland. Her main concern is that donor children are informed about their conception. She is President of the Swiss Egg Donation Association and author of the children's book We Wanted You. Her expertise and dedication have made her a leading psychological counsellor for professionals in fertility clinics. She earned a Master of Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy from the University of Basel.