Coping with pressure and fear of an audience before a performance, recording, audition or release, and with perfectionism that can delay action and expression.
A Therapeutic Space That Understands the Creative World
Psychotherapy for Artists, Performers and Creatives
A creative life can bring meaning, expression and deep connection, while at the same time bringing exposure, pressure, self-criticism, competition and uncertainty. Therapy offers space to meet the person behind the work and to give attention to what happens when creativity meets an audience, a career and everyday life.
LiCBT | ACT | ADHD
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When Creativity and Life Meet
Therapy can be relevant for musicians, singers, actors, producers, artists, creatives, performers, and content and media professionals. You do not need to come because of a difficulty specifically related to creativity. You may come with anxiety, feeling stuck, self-image concerns, emotional overload, attention and functioning difficulties, or a desire for change, while also giving space to the professional and creative world that is part of your life.
Sometimes the difficulty is directly connected to working in front of an audience: performance anxiety, exposure, criticism, comparison with others, creative blocks, career pressure, uncertainty, or fear of failure and success. The aim is not to change the creative work, but to understand the experience together and find ways that allow for greater flexibility, choice and connection with yourself.
Topics You Can Bring to Therapy
The creative world is part of life, but it is not the whole person.
Working with rigid thoughts, perfectionism, comparison with others, and the connection between achievement and a sense of self-worth.
Coping with unsuccessful auditions, negative responses, professional criticism, and public or social-media reactions.
Exploring the relationship between the private person, the public persona, the creative work and the way audiences respond to it, while strengthening the ability to maintain boundaries and identity within exposure.
Space for the shifts between the heightened activation around a performance or project and the drop that can follow, alongside the professional and financial uncertainty that may accompany a creative career.
Exploring feeling stuck, burnout and the fear of losing the ability to create, without turning the therapeutic process into a lesson in creativity.
Space for fear of failure as well as fear of success, expectations, competition and the pressures that accompany a creative career.
Coping with attention, organization, procrastination, overload, motivation and follow-through within a work routine that is not always predictable.
Therapy is not limited to your career. There is room for relationships, anxiety, mood, identity, change, and whatever concerns you as a person.
A Space That Also Speaks the Language of Creativity.
As a musician, producer and creative professional myself, I know firsthand the tension between personal creative work and exposure, criticism, expectations and working in front of an audience. That familiarity does not replace the therapeutic process; it allows the professional and creative world to enter the room without needing to explain it from the outside.
My approach integrates psychotherapy with principles and tools from LiCBT, Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Depending on the person and their needs, the process can combine conversation, reflection, practical tools, and at times music, writing, color, materials or other experiential approaches.
Depending on the need and the process, sessions can also take place in a recording studio or creative space, where the environment and tools can support the therapeutic work. You do not need to know how to play, draw or create in order to use this space.
The process remains, first and foremost, therapy for the person, not for their creative work.You Can Start Simply.
You do not need to arrive with all the answers. We can begin with a conversation, talk a little about what you are feeling and experiencing, and from there find the path that fits you.
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