Therapy for Creatives: Where Art and Inner Life Meet
It has been one of the great honors of my career to work with artists and creatives—musicians, dancers, writers, actors, painters, directors. As an artist myself, I know how easily the creative life can become entangled with emotional life, and how generative—and confusing—that entanglement can be.
We live in a culture that romanticizes creativity but fears complexity. Therapy for creatives is not about diagnosing the muse or clearing the way to productivity. It is about discerning what the symptoms, the self-doubt, the blocks, and the obsessions might be trying to say. Sometimes a so-called block is grief in disguise. Sometimes a pattern that looks like resistance is the soul’s way of keeping art honest.
The etymology of psychotherapist is soul attendant—and for creatives, therapy is often where the soul speaks in its native tongue: symbol, longing, ache, beauty, mystery. My aim is not to pathologize your art or your life, but to help you live them more deeply, more truly, and more connected to one another. The creative life, after all, is not tidy. It is holy. And it deserves to be accompanied with reverence.
