Affirmative Therapy Collective

10/15/2025

To close out Hispanic Heritage Month, the team at ATC wants to acknowledge the pain, anxiety, fear, and anguish the Hispanic and Latine / Latinx communities are currently facing in the United States. Body and bodily autonomy are for everybody, even when the systems that we exist within try to convince us otherwise. You are worthy of being protected. You bring value to the communities you join and create. Our country wouldn’t be what it is without you.

Note! We are aware that the terms Hispanic, Latine, and Latinx are all limited and controversial in their own ways. Regardless of how you identify yourself, if you belong to the group of people being targeted by this government, this applies to you.

Interested in working with one of our therapists? Head to the 🔗 in the bio to find out more ❤️‍🩹

10/10/2025

Meet the team! ATC is a group of psychotherapists, supervisors, consultants, and coaches committed to changing the way we approach mental health treatment.

If you’re interested in working with one of our clinicians, check out the 🔗 in our bio to learn more 👏🏼
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10/02/2025

A reminder to our Jewish community members: you do not need to fast on Yom Kippur if doing so would be a detriment to your health. In fact, the mitzvah of fasting is not a mitzvah if fasting would be harmful to you. Rather, the mitzvah is to nourish, even when your cultural customs might encourage you not to.

The mitzvah we are meant to experience on Yom Kippur is, broadly, to explore your relationship with god, your higher power, your spirituality, etc., and this is most often done via fasting. But this connection and introspection can be accomplished without restricting nourishment.

In my experience, a satisfying and reflective Yom Kippur is *not* about whether you do or don’t eat. It’s about taking care of you, and tending to your relationship with your own humanity and the broader world.

If it’s imperative that you *dont* fast on Yom Kippur for your mental or physical well-being, and you do it anyway… that is not honoring god, your higher power, or your spirituality and relationship to self and community.

Every Jewish denomination has different approaches to the practice of fasting, some more strict and some more lax. Some rabbis might take issue with prioritizing your physical health over your spiritual practice. But as with all things with Judaism, we are allowed to create, develop, and engage with our relationship with our faith in whatever way works best for us. Our Jewishness, and our relationship to it, is our own.

If you’re looking for a therapist to support you in a culturally competent way in eating disorder recovery, check out the 🔗 in our bio to learn more how to work with us 👏🏼
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09/25/2025

09/19/2025

Affirmations and reminders for Su***de Prevention Month

It is okay to ask for help.

And it is even better to ask others how they are when you have the capacity to really hear their answers.

We know asking for help is hard.

If anything else, this month is a reminder that we all need community and need to BE community for others.

Please stay. There is a place for you. You are loved. We all need you here.

Struggling with your mental health in this moment? You’re not alone. Head to the 🔗 in our bio or email us at info@affirmativetherapycollective.com 💌 to find out how to work with us.
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09/12/2025

TWO SPOTS LEFT in our new group, Coming Home to You, a 6 week support group for adult trans folks (binary trans individuals as well as non-binary folks, 18+) struggling with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image!

Facilitated by ATC associate Sophie Kuhn Bedaña, LMSW, this group is built as a space to explore the unique intersections and challenges of the trans body experience with eating and body image disruptions.

If you are interested in joining the group, head to this 🔗 to fill out our inquiry form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehry_6IzJAUYmnzrYnDv3XWrj2qTp1xcJisri2uvh3cQ-50Q/viewform

Email us at info@affirmativetherapycollective.com 💌

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Share with anyone interested via this link: https://affirmativetherapycollective.com/coming-home-to-you/
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07/22/2025

Announcing the Affirmative Therapy Collective's new group, forming now:

Coming Home to You - Exploring Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Injury within the Trans Experience

A new group offering a space for adult trans folks (binary trans individuals as well as non-binary folks, 18+) struggling with disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image! Facilitated by ATC associate Sophie Bedaña, LMSW, this group is built as a space to explore the unique intersections and challenges of the trans body experience with eating and body image disruptions.

See flyer below for details!
In addition to the group fee, there is a one time, 30 minute screening session with a $50 fee, with sliding scale available. As of now, only one sliding scale spot is remaining!

Interested? Email info@affirmativetherapycollective.com, or complete our interest form: https://forms.gle/YKhpFtiabVxQDLqt9

You're welcome to forward or share this website link:
https://affirmativetherapycollective.com/coming-home-to-you/

10/28/2024

Read this Parents.com post for Lauren's thoughts on Intensive Parenting!

"In the end, Canonico offers this advice to parents: “It can be hard to give yourself permission to do less, but if in doing less you are able to offer more to yourself and your kids, that is such a win in my book.”

Intensive parenting may be a byproduct of the demands on modern caregivers. Here's what experts say about the toll intensive parenting takes on families.

10/25/2024

https://affirmativetherapycollective.com/group-offerings/

10/17/2024

New group forming now: Parenting Small Spicy Brained Humans
FACILITATED BY SOPHIE KUHN BEDANA, LMSW @ Affirmative Therapy Collective

Support, education, and processing group for parents of kiddos with ADHD and/or ASD, designed to help you better understand yourself, your kid, and the brain you are both learning to manage.

Held via Zoom on Tuesdays 7-8pm, 8 weeks, starts December 3rd

Group Schedule

WEEKS 1-2

understanding your own feelings and frustrations as a parent, what beliefs and narratives impact that understanding, exploring their attachment styles and regulation

WEEKS 3-4

understanding your attachment and attunement to your child, what meaning do you put into your child's feelings and reactions versus what is the actual meaning, co-regulation strategies

WEEKS 5-6

ways to build structure and boundaries within a flexible framework, working towards acceptance of change

WEEKS 7-8 maintaining long term change

Schedule subject to change based on participant's needs. All sessions will include opportunities for direct feedback and support.

Image Description: Cream colored flyer with brown and mustard abstract graphics in the background throughout. In the upper left corner is a photo of the facilitator, Sophie Kuhn Bedaña. At the top is a drawing of a blue teacup with growing flowers out of it as well as a dark gray torso sculpture with plants, all on top of a wooden shelf. The blue teacup has text that reads "Affirmative Therapy Collective." Text content within each image is described above.

08/22/2024

Are you a therapist curious about how other therapists are working with relationship issues? Are you struggling in your relationship and wondering about how to prompt yourself to reflect and create greater insight and awareness to do things differently?

Link to full article in my bio.