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Your best friend isn't just a placeholder for a pa Your best friend isn't just a placeholder for a partner you haven't found yet. ✨️ Normalize saying my best friend is my person 🖤 Normalize saying I don't need a romantic partner to feel complete 🩶 Normalize saying platonic love isn't a downgrade 🤍 Normalize saying my friendships are permanent, not placeholders 💜 Normalize saying aro/ace people write their own relationship rules ✨️Happy International Friendship Day!✨️ We're taking today to talk about something the culture skips: for a lot of aromantic and asexual people, friendship isn't a backup plan. It's the main relationship 🌟 and we can all learn from that, regardless of our own identity or relationship experience. And we all deserve the same respect, commitment, and celebration that we default to in romantic partnerships. Here's what that looks like: ✨ Platonic love holding the same weight as romantic love, not a lesser version of it ✨ Chosen family that shows up for the hard stuff, not just the highlight reel ✨ Friendships with no expiration date tied to someone else finding "the one" 💎 Commitment defined on your own terms, not borrowed ones. Aro/ace folks have had to build this intentionally. The rest of us could stand to be just as thoughtful ☕ The world runs on amatonormativity, the assumption that a romantic partner is the endgame everyone's working toward 🏃🏾‍♀️ Aro/ace people have been quietly proving that story wrong for as long as friendship has existed. So today, we're celebrating the friends who ARE the relationship, not the runner-up 🙌🏽 Tag the friend who's your person. No asterisks or explanation needed. Follow ATC for more affirming content that makes room for every kind of love. ... #AroAce #InternationalFriendshipDay #PlatonicLove #ChosenFamily #AsexualVisibility
Turns out, watching two men communicate through co Turns out, watching two men communicate through consent isn't a threat to your relationship. It's a blueprint 📃 Heated Rivalry has viewers of every gender and sexuality swooning over its lead couple, two male hockey players falling into a sexual relationship built on real consent and emotional safety on screen. Sophie Talmadge Silleck, LMSW, broke down why in Men's Health: why women are drawn to shows like this, and what straight men can actually learn from it. Her take: "I love working with men and creating a space where they can be vulnerable and explore their feelings, things society says men 'shouldn't' do." 💜 For more on Navigating Consent in Sexual Intimacy, continue reading here: https://affirmativetherapycollective.com/heated-rivalry-and-sexual-intimacy/ Sessions with Sophie feel conversational, not clinical. Less power imbalance, more room to actually say the hard thing out loud. ✨️ New clients and couples welcome ✨️ DM MORE and we'll send you the screening form. · · · #MensHealth #AffirmativeTherapist #NYCTherapist #heatedrivalry
✨️Sophie B's✨️ caseload is full of neurodivergent ✨️Sophie B's✨️ caseload is full of neurodivergent and trans clients who've spent years masking just to survive a system that wasn't built for them. She doesn't ask you to translate yourself. She meets you where you are. ✨️Sophie TS✨️ works with adult creators navigating intimacy, identity, and stigma most therapists can't even name out loud. No need to "save you" No judgment about how you pay your bills or who you love. Different specialties. Same standard: you don't have to explain why you're worthy of care before you walk in the door. That's the whole point of @affirmativetherapycollective . · · #AffirmativeTherapist #QueerTherapist #NYCTherapist #TransAffirming #ContentCreator
What if the shame you feel about your work isn't y 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 is a queer-identified sex therapist specializing in body image, eating disorders, intimacy, and relationships of every configuration. Monogamous. Polyamorous. Open. Kinky. Undefined. She provides individual and couples therapy for people who are done starting over every time they try to talk about something real. In person in Manhattan. Virtually throughout New York and New Jersey. Complete the screening form to get started. . . . #mentalhealth #stigma #queertherapist #telehealththerapy #NYCTherapist
You don't have to spend the first 20 minutes of ev You don't have to spend the first 20 minutes of every session explaining your job. 5 things I watch shift when sex 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. I provide individual and couples therapy for people who are done starting over every time they try to talk about something real. In person in Manhattan. Virtually throughout New York and New Jersey. Complete our screening form in our bio to get started.🌷 ... #sexworkermentalhealth #internalizedstigma #queeraffirmingtherapy #intimacygroup
🏳️‍⚧️ Being trans isn't the issue. 🌈 Being queer i 🏳️‍⚧️ Being trans isn't the issue. 🌈 Being queer isn't the issue. 🌙 Being a sex worker isn't the issue. 😍 Being fat isn't the issue. 👏🏾 Being Black, Indigenous, or a person of color isn't the issue. 💕 Being disabled isn't the issue. 💡 Being neurodivergent isn't the issue. The world just hasn't built enough space for people like us yet. That's not on you 🫶 DM us SEEN and we'll send you more on how we work with people navigating exactly this. #queerandtrans #affirmingtherapist #fataffirming #bodyliberation #stigmafree
Research connects neurodivergence and gender expan Research connects neurodivergence and gender expansive identities more closely than most people realize. When you've spent your whole life noticing that the world's rules don't quite fit you, you get really good at trusting what does. That same drive for authenticity, that same ability to see through the bullshit of norms, is often what leads you to discover yourself and your gender story. That might look like knowing your experience of your body didn't match the gender others assigned to you before you even had words for it.🩵 Or hearing your own voice clearly, and going quiet anyway, because the fear of being left alone was louder. ✨️ Or coming out later in life, once you finally found language that fit. Or just always having a quiet, stubborn sense of self that you tried everything to ignore, because being accepted felt safer than being known. The overlap between embracing neurodivergence and embodying gender expansive identities isn't a coincidence. It's two versions of the same truth: knowing yourself from the inside out. Our latest blog post goes deep on what the research says and why it matters for your mental health care. Visit our profile to read the rest...💡 This one's for you 🏳️‍⚧️ . . . . . #neurodivergent #trans #transgendermentalhealth #genderdiversity #queermentalhealth autisticandtrans
A space that was built with you in mind from the s A space that was built with you in mind from the start. ✨️ Coming Home to You is a virtual group therapy experience for trans and nonbinary people navigating body image, eating disorder recovery, and gender identity. Neurodivergent people aren't an afterthought here. 😊 Different communication styles, different nervous systems, different relationships with your body. All are welcome here 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🫂 Facilitated by Sophie Kuhn Bedaña, LCSW at Affirmative Therapy Collective. Available in NY, NJ, CO, CT, FL, MI, MN, PA, and WI. DM us HOME and we'll send you the screening form directly✨️ #transnonbinary #neurodivergenttherapy #eatingdisorderrecovery #queeraffirming #transmentalhealth
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Body, Sex, Trauma, Neurodivergent, and LGBTQ+ Affirmative Psychotherapy

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Eating disorder and trauma treatment done differently

 

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