ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS
Rate: $95/ (53 min session). Bennett is able to work on a flexible sliding scale if needed. Please contact us to learn more about working with one of our interns. At times, our intern program may have a waiting list.
Graduate Program: West Chester University Department of Social Work
Areas of Interest: EMDR, IFS, Psychodrama, Harm Reduction, Somatics, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Social Movements, Peer Care, Teens and Up, Philosophy, Music & Expressive Arts
I am Bennett Kuhn (he/him), a clinical intern at the Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy and a third-year graduate student at West Chester University’s Graduate Department of Social Work. After almost two decades as a musician, multimedia artist, record label owner, community organizer, educator, and journalist, I made the choice to return to school and become a clinical therapist in 2023 in order to respond to lived and vicarious experiences with trauma and healing. I blend evidence-based practices like EMDR together with practice-based evidences drawn from movement work in community with fellow artists, organizers, and queer and/or neurodivergent people.
Therapeutic Approach & Clinical Style
My role as a therapist is to help you guide yourself in the direction of balance and right relationship with self, other people, and the more-than-human world. Sessions may take dramatically different forms week to week. The basis of my trauma work is in EMDR, psychodrama, IFS, somatics, and styles of talk therapy incorporating existentialist philosophy, gestalt therapy, psychoanalysis, and anti-oppressive cultural theory. As a harm reductionist, I fight for the dignity and destigmatization of all health-related experiences and behaviors while also promoting your attempts to use therapy in charting and directing the intended social impact of your life with accountability.
It takes bravery to step to a new therapeutic relationship. If for any reason you are on the fence about starting therapy, please use the contact links on this page to set up a free consultation with me. Whether or not you and I are a good fit for the long term, I may be able to refer you to another professional or community resource that better suits your needs and desires.
Professional Background
I studied philosophy and the Spanish and Arabic languages as an undergraduate at Tufts University. My professional work has combined music, journalism, education, and community organizing in New York, Nicaragua, and Philadelphia. Soon after moving to Philly in 2015, I co-founded Creative Resilience Collective, a health justice collaborative, and its Creative Resilient Youth program, which offered resources and mentorship support to teen artist-activists working on projects related to mental health. Today, my professional research and public artistic output deal with sound, music, power, mental health, and grief. I began graduate social work studies at West Chester University in 2023 in order to extend these professional roots into becoming a formal provider of clinical care for the first time.
