Therapy for Creatives
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.
The etymology of psychotherapist is actually “soul attendant,” and the process of therapy as it unfolds does this: more than symptom resolution, more than creating efficiency or overcoming roadblocks, it honors and leans into the soul of the individual, what it calls for, what trouble it may seek, and what it means to call it forward, in our lives and in our creative output.
