Authentically You Psychotherapy

Authentically You Psychotherapy Available in person in Oak Park, or virtually from anywhere in Illinois.

Personalized, compassionate, and inclusive therapy to support individuals through all stages of their reproductive and perinatal experiences through individual and group therapy.

06/03/2026

People mean well… but some advice just misses the mark.

What’s a piece of fertility advice you received that made you internally go “…what?” 👀

Join our Instagram Live💡Clinical Embryologist, Jessica Manns will be joing Kendra Vargas, Perinatal Psychotherapist for ...
06/01/2026

Join our Instagram Live💡

Clinical Embryologist, Jessica Manns will be joing Kendra Vargas, Perinatal Psychotherapist for an honest conversation about embryos, IVF, and all the questions fertility patients wish they could ask along the way.

Topics include:
• Embryo grading
• IVF funnel explained
• What happens in the lab
• Common patient questions
• Emotional realities of IVF
• IVF myths debunked

Jessica Manns is a clinical embryologist, author, and founder of , an educational platform reaching over 50,000 followers. She is passionate about making IVF information more accessible, understandable, and empowering for patients navigating infertility.

📅Monday, June 15th
⏰2pm (CST), 3pm (EST)

Don’t forget to set your reminders!🔔

🫠Showing up to work🫠Answering texts🫠Taking care of everyone elseAll while carrying this quiet weight that feels impossib...
05/28/2026

🫠Showing up to work
🫠Answering texts
🫠Taking care of everyone else

All while carrying this quiet weight that feels impossible to put down. And after a while, constantly “holding it together” starts to feel lonelier than anyone realizes.

So many people move through life feeling like they should be able to handle it all: work stress, relationship challenges, anxiety, burnout, life transitions, and without needing help unless things get really bad.

But therapy isn’t just for breaking points.

It’s for the thoughts you don’t say out loud and for the exhaustion that doesn’t fully show on the outside.

You don’t have to keep trying to hold it together. You’re allowed to have more support. You deserve more support through whatever season you’re in.

At Authentically You Psychotherapy, we are passionate about creating spaces where people feel understood, whether they’re navigating anxiety, life transitions, infertility, pregnancy after infertility, loss. relationships, motherhood, overwhelm, or just that heavy weight of trying to hold it all together.

🚨CALL FOR SPEAKERS & PANELISTS🚨The Fertility Care CollaborativeAn intimate interdisciplinary training experience for pro...
05/22/2026

🚨CALL FOR SPEAKERS & PANELISTS🚨

The Fertility Care Collaborative

An intimate interdisciplinary training experience for professionals supporting the infertility community.

📍 Elmhurst, IL
📅 October 23, 2026

This event aims to:
• Deepen understanding of the emotional experiences of infertility
• Help providers feel more confident in complex, tender moments in care
• Foster meaningful collaboration across disciplines
• Reduce the isolation many providers experience in this work

Attendees will leave with:
✨ A more nuanced understanding of what clients and patients may be carrying emotionally
✨ Greater confidence in their clinical and interpersonal approach
✨ Insight into interdisciplinary collaboration
✨ A stronger sense of connection to both their work and like-minded community

We are intentionally curating a small group of interdisciplinary speakers and panelists to create a meaningful and connected experience for attendees.

Potential topics may include:
• Infertility & reproductive trauma
• Pregnancy after infertility
• Loss & grief
• Relationships & identity shifts
• Therapist and provider experiences in fertility work
• Collaborative care approaches
• Group support & community care
• Inclusive and compassionate fertility supportive care

Open to other topics as well!

We welcome interest from:
• Mental health professionals
• Medical providers
• Fertility professionals
• Educators & advocates
• Individuals with lived experience

📩 Interested in speaking or joining a panel?
Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBz98KPX3tTyy_i07pVbScu8q9CcMyV0AINjgcstrxWiw4cw/viewform

Link 🔗 also above in the bio.

05/19/2026

We specialize in the parts of family building that can feel incredibly lonely to carry.

🤍The heartbreak of infertility taking over your thoughts, relationships, body, and sense of self.

🤍The emotional whiplash of trying to stay hopeful during fertility treatment while bracing yourself for bad news.

🤍The anxiety of finally becoming pregnant after loss or infertility and feeling terrified to trust it.

🤍The postpartum anxiety and OCD that can make your mind feel constantly on alert, even when everyone around you says you should just feel grateful.

These experiences are real, heavy, and deeply human. You don’t have to hold them alone.

Visit aypsych.com to learn more.

If you’ve lived this or are currently going through it, you know how much strength it takes to keep showing up every day...
05/18/2026

If you’ve lived this or are currently going through it, you know how much strength it takes to keep showing up every day while carrying so much internally.🧡

It’s Maternal Mental Health Month and we want to name that many moms are struggling in ways that don’t look obvious to o...
05/14/2026

It’s Maternal Mental Health Month and we want to name that many moms are struggling in ways that don’t look obvious to other people.

A lot of moms are functioning at a really high level while quietly running on empty emotionally.

They’re still getting things done, still showing up, and also taking care of everyone else.

Which is exactly why people miss how overwhelmed they actually are.

We see so many moms questioning themselves because they think:
“If I’m functioning, maybe I shouldn’t be struggling this much.”

But emotional exhaustion doesn’t only count once someone is visibly falling apart.

Sometimes it looks like never getting a second to yourself.

Feeling constantly overstimulated.

Snapping more easily.

Feeling disconnected from yourself.
Feeling guilty for wanting space.

These moms deserve support too.

In fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy after infertility, grief is rarely just one thing. It builds. It s...
05/13/2026

In fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy after infertility, grief is rarely just one thing. It builds. It stacks. It shows up in all the places people don’t always think to call grief: missed milestones, interrupted hope, the body not doing what it was supposed to do.

That’s where training in grief work becomes especially important in this population.

Because a lot of what people are carrying doesn’t get named out loud. Not fully. So part of the work is slowing it down enough to actually say it clearly: what was lost, but also what it’s been like to live inside of it. The fear. The waiting. The body that feels like it’s turned against you. The silence. The not knowing.

And grief in this space doesn’t stay in one moment. It can show up in the middle of treatment, in a pregnancy after loss, after birth, or out of nowhere when someone thought they were “fine now.”

Delena brings a strong grief-focused lens into her work with specialized training, which supports clients in making sense of experiences that are often minimized or misunderstood in other spaces.

Because in this population, grief isn’t an “add-on” issue, it’s often the center of the experience.

And when it actually gets held, something shifts - how someone is in their body, how they understand their story, and how they move into what’s next.

Support with Delena is available through our practice.

Learn more and book with Delena ⬇️ aypsych.com/delena-martello

If you’ve been refreshing results, Googling symptoms, or spiraling in the waiting today…you are not alone.Fertility trea...
05/12/2026

If you’ve been refreshing results, Googling symptoms, or spiraling in the waiting today…you are not alone.

Fertility treatment places the nervous system in chronic uncertainty, and that can feel emotionally consuming.

This is the kind of support we hold inside the Fertility Support Collective Membership.🧡

Founding member pricing ends Wednesday 5/13.
Comment “MEMBERSHIP” and I’ll send details.

Mother’s Day can hold so many emotions.For some of you, it’s joy.For others, it’s grief, longing, anger, numbness, grati...
05/10/2026

Mother’s Day can hold so many emotions.
For some of you, it’s joy.
For others, it’s grief, longing, anger, numbness, gratitude, hope…or all of it at once.

As I reflect on my own journey, I think about how alone I felt on this day. It felt like there was another world people were experiencing things that I clearly wasn’t…

…and I was alone on this island all by myself.

Today, I’m thinking about the people trying to become mothers, grieving babies, navigating pregnancy after loss or infertility, mothering in ways that aren’t always seen, and doing their best through incredibly complicated emotions.

Whatever today looks like for you, you don’t have to force yourself to feel one specific thing.

There is space for all of it here.🫶🏽

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