Justyna Cichonczuk Is Turning Hair Into Healing

Some artists create with their hands. Others with their hearts. Justyna Cichonczuk? She does both — often at the same time.

When I sat down with her, I expected to talk about hair. What I didn’t expect was to leave the conversation feeling like I’d just walked through a ritual. Justyna isn’t just a stylist. She’s a healer, sound alchemist, energy reader, and woman of deep, deliberate presence. She refers to herself as an artist, dreamer, and doer — but she says she's a healer at the core of it all. And after talking with her, you believe her.

“Hair is the medium,” she told me, “but the healing is the art.”

Justyna’s journey into intentional, soul-based beauty didn’t begin in a textbook or trend cycle — it started with noticing. Over the years, her clients didn’t just thank her for their hair; they also appreciated her for her guidance and support. They thanked her for how they felt about her. Again and again, she heard the same thing: Your energy shifted something in me. At first, she brushed it off. But eventually, she started to listen.

“They’d say, ‘I just needed to see you today.’ Or, ‘I feel like I exhaled for the first time in weeks.’ And I thought… this isn’t about hair anymore. This is something deeper. Something sacred.” So she pivoted. She designed her services to honor that sacredness — building a private, concierge-style experience where beauty isn’t rushed, but received. She brings the tools, the music, the presence. The client brings their truth.

And what unfolds over hours — often four to five — is more than a transformation. It’s a recalibration.

The Chair as Confessional

There’s something remarkable about how Justyna speaks about her craft, not with ego, but with reverence. Her chair becomes a threshold in private sessions at clients’ homes or within the serene, community-driven space at Kin House in SoHo. In this space, people often share stories they didn’t know they needed to tell. “I don’t ask. It just happens,” she says. “There’s this trust. This release. We start the appointment, and by the end, we’ve worked through the emotions as much as we’ve worked through the tangles.”

She describes it as a complete narrative arc: the beginning, the unraveling, the resolution, and the glow-up. Clients don’t just walk out looking different; they walk out feeling different. “There’s a weight that lifts. And then they see themselves in the mirror — and it all clicks. It’s physical, emotional, and energetic. That’s why I keep doing this.” But Justyna didn’t stop there. What began as intuitive energy work evolved into a full-spectrum sensory experience. Now, her sessions are soundtracked by carefully chosen music — frequency-based tracks, soul music, melodic Afro house — all selected based on the mood, the weather, or what she’s feeling intuitively in the room.

“I realized I could shift energy just by playing the right music,” she tells me. “Without saying a word, I could change the emotional temperature.”

After styling, she often ends with a sound bath. She rolls away the chair, lays out a mat and crystal bowls, and plays specific tones aligned with the chakra points she has identified throughout the appointment. Sometimes, her clients cry. Sometimes, they see visions. Invariably, they leave lighter.

“One client said, ‘I came in for hair and walked out reborn.’ That’s when I knew — this is it. This is the work.”

Justyna’s healing practice is shaped by her story of survival, adaptation, and unlearning.

Born in Poland, she immigrated to the U.S. at age eight. She quickly became the translator, navigator, and problem-solver for her parents. “I was doing government paperwork at 13 and making calls and booking appointments. I was a mini CEO,” she laughs. “It taught me strength — but it also taught me control.” Years later, a close friend asked her a single, disarming question: Do you think you have a control wound? “That cracked me open,” she says. “I realized I was living in a hyper-masculine energy — always holding everything, managing everyone, never resting. That wasn’t the healer I wanted to be.” So she began to soften—too slow—to root in feminine energy. These days, she starts her mornings in stillness: silent meditation, breathwork, journaling, lemon water, and celery juice before noon. There is no rush, no frenzy.

And if the energy around her becomes too much? She disappears — into nature, into silence, into herself. “I give myself the same permission I give my clients: to be.”

The Bigger Vision: A Creative Healing Commune

When I ask her where all of this is leading, she doesn’t hesitate.

“I see a healing warehouse by the water. One open space with couches, art, and music. Different rooms for different modalities — plant medicine, movement, creative therapies. A full salon setup, of course. And a stage.”

Yes, a stage. Because Justyna is also a DJ, music, she says, is her second language of healing. “I want to host shows that start with a collective sound bath — cleanse the energy before we receive the sound. No chaos. Just alignment.”

It’s not a salon. It’s not a studio. It’s a sanctuary for full-spectrum becoming. As we wrap up, I ask her what part of her identity feels most alive right now: artist, healer, dreamer, or doer. She smiles. “They all flow into one. But if I had to choose? Healer. Everything else — the art, the beauty, the music — flows from there.” Witnessing Justyna's work is to watch a transformation happen in real time. She meets you where you are and then gently guides you to where you belong — inward, upward, and forward.

And perhaps most beautifully, she does it without pretense.

“I’m not trying to be anything,” she says. “I’m just being me.”

That’s the magic. That’s the medicine.