Affirmative Therapy Collective

Affirmative Therapy Collective 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.

Cannabis Friendly 🍃 Queer-identified 🌈 JewishAsher specializes in eating disorders, neurodivergence, OCD, ADHD, Autism, ...
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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08/29/2026

Gender dysphoria and disordered eating don't show up as two separate problems.

They show up in the same body, feeding the same feeling 😵‍💫 at odds with yourself while the world tells you that feeling is your fault.

It can feel isolating, like nobody else has shared this experience.

The truth is Sophie B hasn't worked with many trans clients who haven't struggled with this intersection.

Sophie B built Coming Home to You for exactly this reason.

Body liberation work that actually understands what it's like to be trans, to be at war with your body, and to need tools that hold both at once.

💜 Closed group. 💛 Same faces every week. 🤍 Rolling enrollment

DM "HOME" and we'll send you the cohort application 🖤

Still looking for a therapist who understands the intersection of identity, body, and trauma without making you explain ...
08/23/2026

Still looking for a therapist who understands the intersection of identity, body, and trauma without making you explain why all three are connected?

✨Meet Sophie Kuhn Bedaña, LCSW✨
Associate Therapist at Affirmative Therapy Collective.

Sophie specializes in eating disorders, transgender issues, spiritual and religious trauma, kink-aware care, AND neurodivergence for kids, teens, and adults. 🫶

Now accepting new virtual and in-person clients!

Fill out the client screening form to get started.

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07/08/2026

What if the shame you feel about your work isn't yours?

It was handed to you.

Internalized stigma doesn't announce itself.

It shows up as the voice that says you don't deserve a relationship that actually works 💔

The one that tells you the distance you feel from your partner makes sense because of what you do.

The one that makes you wonder if the hard stuff is just... your fault🤍

That voice isn't truth.

It's what happens when the world spends years telling you that your work makes you less worthy of care.

Research backs this up: chronic exposure to shame-based messaging gets absorbed ✨️

It looks like self-isolation. Depression.

Interpreting your own pain as deserved.

That's internalized stigma doing exactly what it was designed to do 🫯

Sophie Talmadge Silleck, LMSW created S*x Work and Intimacy: You Are More Than Your Job because untangling that in a room full of people who already get the context is different.

Faster. More honest. Less exhausting.🤍

Wednesday evenings via Zoom.

$90 / 90 min | 2 sliding-scale spots at $25 minimum.

Current or former s*x workers who identify as female or non-binary, 18+, US-wide, are invited to apply.

Complete the screening form to get started. Please note there is a $50 screening session fee and a cap of 10 participants for this group session.

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Two new virtual groups are enrolling now at Affirmative Therapy Collective 🌱S*x Work and Intimacy: You are More than You...
07/03/2026

Two new virtual groups are enrolling now at Affirmative Therapy Collective 🌱

S*x Work and Intimacy: You are More than Your Job
A space for current and former s*x workers (18+) who struggle with intimacy in their personal lives because of the job. This will be a space where participants can speak openly without judgement or stigma that people often attach to s*x work. Open to anyone who identifies as female or non-binary. Facilitated by Sophie Talmadge Silleck, LMSW (she/her), who has direct experience supporting s*x workers in a therapeutic capacity. Wednesday evenings, start date coming soon. $90 per 90-minute session, with two sliding scale spots available ($25 minimum).

Coming Home to You: Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Injury within the Trans Experience
Recovery resources are rarely built with trans folks in mind. This group is a space to explore eating disorder recovery and body image injury alongside others who understand how gender and body image intertwine.

Interested or know someone who is? Email us at [email protected] or complete the screening form below.

SW and Intimacy Group:
https://forms.gle/XvN8BYizxPvAF7JJ6

Coming Home to You Group:
https://forms.gle/TNyYmx9cjPabsQkN7

07/01/2026

You don't have to spend the first 20 minutes of every session explaining your job.

5 things I watch shift when s*x workers finally have a space built for them:

1. The shame gets named. Internalized stigma isn't a personality flaw. It's what happens when the world spends YEARS telling you that you're the problem.

2. The double life gets lighter.✨ Holding two completely different versions of yourself is exhausting. You don't have to justify that here.

3. Intimacy stops feeling like a contradiction. Spending your day in intimate spaces and coming home to disconnection is its own kind of exhausting. We name it here.

4. You get clear on what you actually want from your relationships. Not the version that's easiest to explain. The version that's actually true.

5. You start letting yourself be cared for.

✨I'm Sophie Talmadge Silleck, LMSW. This group exists because this conversation deserves its own room.

Wednesday evenings via Zoom. $90 per 90-min session and $50 for your 30-min client screening with 2 sliding-scale spots available. Capped at 10!

Female or non-binary, 18+, current or former s*x workers, US-wide

Complete our screening form in our bio to get started.🌷
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