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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 created Sex 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 sex 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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#sexworkermentalhealth #stigma #queeraffirmingtherapy #sexworkersupport #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. 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 sex workers, US-wide

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

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#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

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

You've been the strong one in every room. The one

You've been the strong one in every room.

The one who figured it out, moved on, and made it look easy. 💔

Queer life asks a lot of you ✨

And most therapy WASN'T built with that in mind.

Ours was.

At ATC, every clinician specializes in LGBTQIA+ affirmative care, body, sex, trauma, and everything in between.

No explaining yourself.

Visit our website to complete our client screening form and get started.

A note about the audio: originally written and published by @NakeiaHomer 💛

#QueerTherapy #LGBTQMentalHealth #AffirmativeTherapist #QueerMentalHealth #NYCTherapist

Diet culture didn't ask for your consent before it

Diet culture didn't ask for your consent before it got inside your head.

It just showed up 💔

In the mirror, at the dinner table, in every "new year, new you" message that taught you smaller, more disciplined bodies are better bodies. 🪞

That's not self-improvement.

That's body image injury.

And if you're trans or gender non-conforming, it hits different because you're navigating all of that while also navigating your relationship with a body that the world has strong, wrong opinions about. 🌎

Coming Home to You is a 8-week virtual group exploring eating disorder recovery and body image injury within the trans experience.

✨Led by Sophie Kuhn Bedaña, LMSW✨

8 weeks | Saturdays via Zoom

$90/session | 2 sliding scale spots available | 18+

DM us HOME and we'll send you the screening form to join the waitlist.

#transnonbinary #bodyimageinjury #eatingdisorderrecovery #dietculturedropout #transbodyimage

Your therapist's approach matters as much as who t

Your therapist's approach matters as much as who they are 👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿

Affirmative Therapy Collective is an LGBTQIA+ affirming psychotherapy practice grounded in body, fat, and sex positivity, intersectional feminism, queer theory, anti-racism, and the Health at Every Size® (HAES) approach.

Here's our integrative approach. Every therapist at ATC emphasizes:

Psychodynamic · Harm Reduction · HAES®
Feminist Therapy · Relational Therapy · Somatic Trauma-Focused · Person-Centered 🫂

And depending on what you need, our clinicians incorporate:

✨ Parts Work — Lauren, Asher, Sophie B, Lee
✨ IFS — Lauren
✨ ERP — Asher, Sophie B
✨ Narrative Therapy — Asher, Sophie B, Sophie TS
✨ EFT — Lauren, Lee
✨ Sex Therapy - Sophie TS
✨ Creative / Art Therapy - Sophie B
✨ DBT - Lee, Sophie TS

Not sure which approach is right for you?

That's what the first session is for:

Visit our website to complete our client screening form and get started.

#AffirmativeTherapist #QueerTherapist #NYCTherapist #BodyPositivity #TransAffirming

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Body, Sex, Trauma, Neurodivergent, and LGBTQ+ Affirmative Psychotherapy

Eating disorder and trauma treatment done differently

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Eating disorder and trauma treatment done differently

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admin@affirmativetherapycollective.com

(646) 504-1615