A. Onyx Fujii, LCSW
Therapist, Supervisor, Consultant & Facilitator

I am a queer, non-binary, chronically ill, mixed race clinical social worker in private practice in Philadephia (on unceded Lenni-Lenape land). Healing justice is at the 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 am the co-founder and co-director of the Kintsugi Therapist Collective, a virtual community for care workers dedicated to embodied and liberatory visions of care. My other professional affiliations include Manhattan Alternatives, Multiracial Mental Health, and National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network.

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 significance of identity, trauma, (in)visibility, and connection.

PA LCSW License #: CW019008

 

Why ‘Kintsugi’?

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer combined with precious metals. The intention of this method is to highlight the beauty of brokenness and repair, identifying both as important aspects of the history of the object, rather than flaws to hide or disguise. The significance of kintsugi has roots in wabi-sabi, the Japanese philosophy of radical acceptance of the inherent nature of imperfection in life. With kintsugi, by emphasizing the cracks in the repair process, there is a valuing of the wear of an object and a recognition that being broken is simply a part of its story, rather than its end. Kintsugi as metaphor has been a touchstone in my work with folks impacted by oppression, chronic illness, disability, and trauma. As a mixed-race Japanese American, I hold these concepts as foundational to the perspective I bring to my practice.