Nourishing and Sustaining the Vitality of Trauma Therapists: The Kintsugi Therapist Collective

This workshop offers 1.5 CE units.*
See “Continuing Education” below for purchase information and details.


Workshop Overview

In this workshop, we will share our personal and clinical insights as the co-directors of Kintsugi Therapist Collective: a virtual community offering embodied care, support, wisdom, and resources to trans and non-binary, BIPOC, chronically ill, and disabled mental health providers. We are a community of therapists dedicated to embodied and liberatory visions of care.

This workshop will include personal stories of our lived experiences as clinicians who are chronically ill. We will discuss several specific professional and ethical challenges and critical decision points we have faced in the course of our clinical careers.

We will end with a Q&A with the presenters as well as an opportunity for group participants to share their own dilemmas related to navigating relational psychodynamic clinical work as chronically ill therapists.

This workshop will be recorded and available for 30 days following the event.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO

  1. Approach psychodynamic psychotherapy as a clinician whose somatic perspective is less reliable than a clinically reparative “good enough” perspective.

  2. Describe strategies to address internalized ableism as it relates to business and clinical decisions.

  3. Discuss methods to generate sustainable income without constant and consistent active engagement for chronically ill bodies.

  4. Identify the unique contributions your embodied experience might impart to the therapeutic relationship.


PRESENTED BY

Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii
LCSW

 
 

and

Asher Pandjiris
LCSW, MA

 
 
 
 

Anastasia (Onyx) Fujii, LCSW is a queer, non-binary, chronically ill, mixed-race clinical social worker; living and practicing trauma-informed psychotherapy in Philadelphia, PA (on Lenni-Lenape land). They are a cultural humility consultant and group facilitator, as well as a lifelong East Coaster, a Cancer, a writer, and a parent. Onyx's professional practices and writing center the intersections of identity, trauma, (in)visibility, and connection. Onyx lives with type 1 diabetes, fibromyalgia, and multiple secondary autoimmune issues, including hypothyroidism and gastroparesis; as well as C-PTSD, anxiety, and depression.

 

Asher Pandjiris, LCSW, MA is a queer, white, non-binary parent, an art-maker, an activist, a psychotherapist, a podcaster, a group facilitator and supervisor to newer clinicians. Asher was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 14, Endometriosis in their mid-20's and is also navigating a possible additional autoimmune related diagnosis. Depression and Anxiety are also a consistent presence in their life, both related to ongoing medical unpredictability but also as a survivor of persistent childhood trauma. They currently reside on unceded Nipmuc and Pocumtuc land. 

Asher believes 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 Asher offers are aimed at supporting folks in these challenges. They love hosting the Living in this Queer Body podcast and 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.

Visit www.kintsugitherapistcollective.com to learn more.

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

*The conference is co-sponsored with the Insight Center, who will be providing the Continuing Education credits. A CE certificate for this workshop is issued for a $10 charge. Instructions for purchasing CE certificates will be emailed after registration is completed and certificates are issued after the workshop is completed. Continuing Education Certificates must be purchased within thirty (30) days after the event.

Psychologists: The Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This workshop provides 1.5 CE units.

MFTs / LCSWs / LPCCs: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA CEs. This workshop provides 1.5 CE units.