Kintsugi Therapist Collective (KTC)
began in conversation between longtime friends and colleagues, Onyx Fujii and Asher Pandjiris.
We kept returning to the question, “How do we, two chronically ill therapists achieve sustainability and liberation in private practice, while also caring for complicated bodies, raising children, and facing ongoing experiences of trauma and oppression?”
KTC is our answer.
Asher recently interviewed Onyx on their podcast Living in This Queer Body: Episode 50 - listen now!
Meet Onyx
A. Onyx Fujii, LCSW (PA)
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Group Facilitator, Cultural Humility Consultant, and Writer
Cancer Sun / Virgo Moon / Scorpio Rising
they/them
I am a queer, non-binary, chronically ill, culturally Jewish, mixed race clinical social worker in private practice in Philadephia (on unceded Lenni-Lenape land). I unjustly benefit from socioeconomic and educational privilege, skin privilege, and proximity to whiteness.
Healing justice is at core of my multidisciplinary practice where I offer trauma-informed, anti-oppressive psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and cultural humility facilitation and consultation; focusing on the intersections of gender, sexual orientation, race, chronic illness and disability. I received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006 and a Masters of Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work in 2012. I completed training in Eye Movement and Desensitization from the EMDRIA Institute in 2018. My professional practices and writing center the intersections of identity, trauma, (in)visibility, and connection.
Outside of my professional roles, I am a parent, a creative writer and occasional art maker, a beachcomber, and an avid home cook. I find restoration in ocean air, a warm bed, memoirs, and long urban walks.
If you live in PA, and have an interest in psychotherapy sessions, I occasionally have openings in my private practice. I also offer clinical supervision to PA-based LSWs working towards clinical licensure and to fully-licensed therapists nationally and internationally. Please find more information at: www.kintsugimentalwellness.com
Meet Asher
Asher Pandjiris, LCSW (NY), LICSW (MA)
Psychotherapist, Podcaster, Group Facilitator, and Clinical Consultant
Virgo Sun / Sagittarius Moon / Cancer Rising
they/them
I am a queer, white, non-binary parent. I am an art-maker, an activist, a psychotherapist, a podcaster, a group facilitator and supervisor to newer clinicians. I am someone living with auto-immune based chronic health issues. I am a scholar of critical, psychoanalytic and mindfulness based theories. I chase the sun whenever I can and have two dogs named Pickle and River. I currently reside on unceded Nipmuc and Pocumtuc land and want to keep this in the front of my mind more often.
I believe that everyone deserves to be supported in dealing with their own legacies of trauma and psychic suffering so that we can more easefully navigate this neoliberal/capitalist/deeply racist, transphobic and ableist heteropatriarchy that is traumatic for everyone, especially folks who are highly sensitive and/or navigate multisystemic oppression. The programs and workshops I offer are aimed at supporting folks in these challenges. I love hosting the Living in this Queer Body podcast and facilitating programs on topics that I feel deeply passionate about.
I received a Masters of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies in 2007 and a Masters of Social Work from Smith College in 2013. In 2017, I completed a certificate program at The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. Additionally, I served as the Program Director at Balance Eating Disorder treatment center and have years of experience working with issues related to trauma and its impact on the body. I have published on the topics of intergenerational trauma transmission, the treatment of eating disorders, sexual assault in the music industry, the wellness industrial complex and gender dysphoria.
If you live in NY, MA or Internationally, and have an interest in biweekly psychotherapy sessions, I occasionally have openings in my small private practice. Please find more information at: www.asherpandjiris.com