about
Nick Fonarev, LCSW
Certified IFS (Level 3), KAP, Trauma Therapist | Psychedelic Facilitator & Trainer
Anycolor Wellness was founded by Nick Fonarev with a focus on helping people heal from trauma, anxiety, depression, addictive processes, and other persistent patterns that can be difficult to shift. His work is grounded in the belief that each person has an innate capacity to heal when given the right conditions.
Nick specializes in trauma-focused therapy, including complex trauma, mood disorders, OCD, and substance use. He supports clients in reconnecting with their inner healing resources and integrating difficult experiences in a way that fosters greater balance, clarity, and resilience.
path
Nick began his work supporting people through challenging psychedelic experiences with the MAPS Zendo Project. Being present with people in highly intense states - and witnessing both the potential for healing and the lack of support for integration - led him to pursue clinical training and eventually earn his MSW from Rutgers University.
Over the past decade, he has remained deeply involved with Zendo, now serving as a supervisor leading teams that provide psychological and medical support in high-intensity environments.
Alongside this work, Nick worked in outpatient settings and co-led recovery groups at SMART Recovery. While cognitive approaches were helpful in building awareness, he found that insight alone often wasn’t enough to create lasting change. Many clients could understand their patterns, yet still feel stuck in them.
This led him to seek out approaches that work more directly with the nervous system and deeper layers of experience.
Prior to becoming a therapist, Nick studied economics at Columbia University and spent over a decade working across the finance, technology, and music industries, designing and building ventures in those spaces. He is also a music producer, a photographer, and has spent extended time traveling, drawn to explore layers of the human experience.
This background continues to inform his work, shaping how he understands patterns, behavior, and the ways people organize their inner worlds.
approach
Nick’s work is rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and informed by modalities such as Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Somatic Experiencing, and Humanistic approaches.
At the core of his work is a simple idea: healing doesn’t come from fixing yourself, but from developing a compassionate relationship with the parts of you that carry pain, protection, and survival strategies, and allowing them the space to be understood, transform, and release what they carry.
Rather than focusing only on thoughts or behaviors, Nick helps clients access deeper emotional and physiological processes. This includes work with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic integration, where appropriate, supporting access and release of what's no longer needed.
His approach is collaborative, non-pathologizing, and grounded in meeting people exactly where they are, allowing change to emerge organically.
select certificates & trainings
Nick has trained extensively in trauma-informed and psychedelic-assisted therapies, including:
rates
Nick's rate is $240 for a 60-minute session. He offers monthly superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. He also maintains a limited number of sliding scale spots.
schedule a free 30 min consultation
Finding the right therapeutic fit is an important part of the process.
Reach out by email to schedule a brief consultation and explore whether this work feels like a good fit.
Contact
+1-347-470-5199
nickfonarevsw@gmail.com
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