Affirmative Therapy Collective

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.