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.

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.🫶🏽

05/08/2026

Some days look productive. Some days look like healing.

Some days look like sitting by a window with your laptop trying to hold all the roles you care about at once, while also feeling energized after meeting up with a bada$$ out here doing incredible work !🫶🏽

Lately, it’s been all of the above.

Today is World Maternal Health Day 🤍And yet, most birthing parents are seen just once… at 6 weeks postpartum.We’re told:...
05/06/2026

Today is World Maternal Health Day 🤍

And yet, most birthing parents are seen just once… at 6 weeks postpartum.

We’re told:

“You’re cleared.”
“You’re healed.”
“You’re good to go.”
“You can have s*x again”
“Let’s get you on birth control”

But here’s what often goes unseen…

✨The anxiety that ramps up at night
✨The intrusive thoughts no one wants to say out loud
✨The grief after infertility, loss, or a birth that didn’t go as planned
✨The identity shift that can feel disorienting, not magical
✨The physical recovery that is far from “done”

Six weeks is not the finish line. For many, it’s just the beginning.

Maternal health isn’t a single visit. It’s ongoing, multi-layered, and deeply deserving of support.

You deserve care that checks on your mental health, not just physical healing.

You deserve to be asked how you’re really doing.

You deserve support long after the casseroles stop coming.

Let’s normalize continued care in the postpartum period, because thriving shouldn’t be left to chance.

Save this. Share this. Start the conversation.

Wherever you are in your family-building journey…Trying, waiting, grieving, pregnant, postpartum, or somewhere in betwee...
05/05/2026

Wherever you are in your family-building journey…

Trying, waiting, grieving, pregnant, postpartum, or somewhere in between, your experience matters.

This path can hold hope, uncertainty, joy, and heaviness, sometimes all at once.

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month is a reminder: you deserve support through all of it, not just parts of it.

Save this for when words feel hard.In honor of Maternal Mental Health Month, let’s speak with more care.💙
05/04/2026

Save this for when words feel hard.

In honor of Maternal Mental Health Month, let’s speak with more care.💙

Join us May 6th for a conversation about maternal mental health on Maternal Mental Health Day!Hope to see you there - li...
05/01/2026

Join us May 6th for a conversation about maternal mental health on Maternal Mental Health Day!

Hope to see you there - link is ⬆️ in the bio!

Authentically You Psychotherapy specializes in supporting pregnancy after infertility.Our work centers on the emotional ...
04/29/2026

Authentically You Psychotherapy specializes in supporting pregnancy after infertility.

Our work centers on the emotional experience that often lives alongside it.

When joy, fear, and uncertainty are all present at the same time, we’re here to help you understand these experiences.

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