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Body, S*x, Trauma, LGBTQIA+ and Neurodivergent affirmative therapy in NYC and online (CO, CT, FL, MI, MN, NY, NJ, PA, WI). All of you is welcome here.

10/30/2026

If you're q***r and neurodivergent, you've probably been masking in two directions 🎭at once and never had a word for it, costume season or not.

Holding your voice in a certain register AND stopping your hands from stimming AND scanning the room for who's safe AND tracking whether you said the "normal" amount of words in a "normal" enough way.

That's two full time jobs running before you've even reached the actual task in front of you.🫠

Every mask started as protection, and it made sense at the time.

Get matched with a therapist who lets you take every mask off.✨️

Fill out our screening form to get started 💻

10/06/2026

The therapist who built the practice she wished existed.

Meet Lauren Canonico, LCSW — Founding Director of Affirmative Therapy Collective.

Lauren started ATC because most therapy wasn't built for marginalized, fat, and/or LGBTQIA+ bodies, identities, or histories.

So she built something different.

A practice that truly understands what it means to work with people for whom treatment has historically fallen so short.

And one that recognizes something equally important: when therapists are supported, respected, and paid equitably, when their identities and lived experiences are honored rather than flattened, they show up better for the people they serve.

At ATC, therapist wellbeing and patient care aren't separate values. They're the same value.

ATC was built because EVERY patient deserves a therapist that is able to be present and show up with their full breadth of skills and knowledge.

Our focus at Affirmative Therapy Collective:
🧡 Trauma
💛 Eating disorders / disordered eating
💚 Body image
💙 LGBTQIA+ identity
💜 Relationships of all shapes and sizes
🤎 Neurodivergence
🖤 HAES® and fat liberation aligned approach

Harm reduction grounded. Trauma-informed. No gatekeeping your identity at the door.

Follow Affirmative Therapy Collective | Body · S*x · Trauma to meet the rest of the team.
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09/30/2026

The pain you feel around your body image.

The difficulties you notice being present and connecting during s*x.

✨️These don't require two different therapists✨️

Sophie Talmadge Silleck, LMSW, specializes in eating disorders and is currently pursuing her AASECT s*x therapy certification.

Her goal is to bring these two areas together in order to have more open and honest conversations about the body and pleasure.

Sophie finds joy in working with clients who are looking to understand their inner world, let go of shame and stigma, and explore the old patterns that no longer serve them.

She believes in a holistic framework where clients can examine the context and narratives that inform how they show up today.

The work starts from where you actually are.

One-on-one or couples therapy in person in Manhattan or virtually throughout New York, New Jersey, and Florida.

Baring It All: An Exploration of S*x and Body Image

Group therapy, virtual, all genders, 18+, US-wide. $90 per 90-minute session. $50 screening session.

✨️The room where you stop being the only one ✨️

Fill out our screening form to get matched with Sophie TS 🌷

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09/18/2026

All of us at ATC are so excited to read Healing the Oppressed Body by Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik. A book on trauma healing that actually includes q***r and trans folks? AND acknowledges the traumas of oppression? Sign us up.

Best mail in a while!

Thanks for all you do Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, LCSW. I am so excited that this work is in the world. We need it!

09/02/2026

Cannabis Friendly 🍃 Queer-identified 🌈 Jewish

Asher specializes in eating disorders, neurodivergence, OCD, ADHD, Autism, Jewish trauma, and complex intergenerational trauma.

All through an affirming, anti-oppressive lens 🧐

And best yet, they thrive working in the intersections between 🙏🏼

Follow Affirmative Therapy Collective | Body · S*x · Trauma for q***r therapists who get the stigma.

Ready to connect? Follow Affirmative Therapy Collective | Body · S*x · Trauma and DM us START to get the conversation started.
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Address

80 University Place
New York, NY
10003

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+16464701163

Website

https://affirmativetherapycollective.com/

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