Her extensive expertise includes counseling, consultations, and evaluations for all family-building options and is drawn from her own challenge with fertility which blessed her with a daughter from surrogacy. She has founded and led fertility support and mindfulness groups, retreats, and workshops throughout the Bay Area, served on the Board of RESOLVE of Northern California, and worked as a staff member in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Stanford University. She has participated in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) professional training, and mind-body fertility professional training. Dr. Marotta is the author of 50 Mindful Steps to Self-Esteem: Everyday Practices for Cultivating Self-Acceptance and Self-Compassion and treats issues of self-worth as it relates to the broad spectrum of life challenges.