Therapy for Artists & Creatives
Overcome creative blocks, manage self-doubt, and thrive emotionally while pursuing your passion.
Do you feel overwhelmed or stuck with the creative process?
As an artist/creative, are you:
Struggling with creative blocks or burnout?
Facing self-doubt or perfectionism in your craft?
Balancing your artistic vision with life’s responsibilities?
Dealing with rejection, imposter syndrome, or anxiety?
Psychotherapy can help.
My Approach
Psychotherapy is a practice that has very different meanings depending on the practitioner. Many skilled therapists approach this work systematically and with methodical precision- I sometimes refer to them as “knobs and levers therapists”. For many people, that is exactly what they need. Other therapists approach therapy itself as an art, and I count myself among them. I seek a poetics of the therapeutic process, understanding that neither the psyche nor our paths through life are particularly linear.
It has been amongst the great pleasure of my career to work with artists and creatives- actors, directors, writers, musicians, dancers, collagists, and painters. As an artist myself (musician, puppeteer), I’m particularly attuned to the ways that our creative processes and our lives inform each other, and where they can become detached. Some creatives prefer to keep them that way, but both art and life can suffer as a result.
Therapy is a meaningful companion to a creative life- not to analyze creativity to the point of flattening it, but rather to locate connections we may not have noticed, or Psychologically to do the hard work of parsing out when a symptom needs to be resolved vs when it can be a mask for creative energy itself. Discernment is key here- as symptoms can act as inhibitors and obstacles to creativity as often as they can be some new generativity, twisted out of shape, hiding just below the surface.
Choosing a life of creativity is ultimately counter-cultural, and often times we can suffer as a result of walking upstream. Therapy can also help us see ourselves and our process in just that context. The poem below by DH Lawrence illustrates this well. If you are interested in this kind of therapy, reach out now.
“Healing” by D.H. Lawrence
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long, difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.
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