Khemenec Pantin, LCSW

I seek to create and offer spaces for individuals to heal from trauma, prioritize their self care, and dismantle inequitable systems that are often generational, systemic, and experienced in the lives of their families and significant others.

My work is guided by my belief in the healing journey that is transformative and never duplicative. My style is derived from relational therapy, racial trauma and generational trauma informed care, evidence based practice, and solution based therapy.

As a Black man in America who is West Indian and also a father, it’s important to me to think about the histories and traumas that inform identity: What would it look like to be healed? What is healing? How does healing ourselves help heal others and heal the world? Asking questions that honor where you came from and where you want to go—even when it’s hard—is how we move forward in a therapeutic space.

My background is within policy and practice, reducing the jail to prison pipeline, and supporting historically marginalized communities in education and criminal justice. I value being a public servant and making sure that people who don’t normally get a seat at the table have their needs represented. It’s important to me to help people both individually and systemically, so as a Sixth Street Wellness therapist, it’s a privilege to practice person-to-person care—people sharing their lives with me is always a humbling experience that I approach with gratitude. My most meaningful experiences have been sitting kneecap to kneecap with families experiencing grief, young people processing change and men of color redefining their lives and their roles in their families.