You’re a Creative
I work with creatives who are hungry to transform their lives. My former career as a personal manager to artists, musicians, and producers led me to the therapy profession after spending 15 years advising and supporting clients in the entertainment business. I understand the unique circumstances that entertainers, actors, musicians, artists, executives, and others involved in similar industries face.
While tour managing high-profile rock bands worldwide, I became familiar with the complexities that come with life on the road, including the toll it takes on one’s physical and emotional well-being. Learning to successfully navigate day-to-day inconveniences while keeping a level head can be extremely difficult. Challenges like sleeping well in a coffin-sized tour bus bunk bed, exercising on a regular basis, managing social or general anxieties, finding food you actually want to eat, finding time to be alone, or simply laying off the substance (which always seem to be around) are constants of tour life. Therapy and coaching can help you cope with these adversities so that you can continue doing what you love.
Your passion and creative spirit are important assets; you just need practical ways to utilize them so they help you move towards a life you’ve dreamed about.
If you’re holding yourself back because of self-doubt, fears, lack of trust, or unhealthy habits, then you’ve come to the right place.
Issues We May Address:
Coping with work overload and burnout, career anxiety, lack of career mobility, irregular working hours, physical injury, low financial rewards, sleep disruption, perfectionism, low self-esteem, identity crises, financial insecurity and sporadic work opportunities.
Dealing with disappointment of being overlooked for an audition or not getting a coveted part.
Being confronted with an inability or challenges starting (or finishing) a creative project you’d been dreaming about.
Choosing between your career and the demands of your romantic or familial life. Perhaps contemplating leaving a profession that has defined your identity.
Managing extreme stress, employment uncertainty, low income, inaccessible health care and easy availability of alcohol and other mood-altering substances.
Social isolation, social anxiety, poor social skills and difficulty forming intimate relationships.
Feeling uninspired and unmotivated.
Not putting your identity at risk when your work is subject to uncertainty and devaluation.
Staying humble and true to yourself during times of success, excess, and attention.
Managing the constant deluge of information and expectations from the media and your peers.
Taking good care of yourself amidst the pressure to never stop working/producing.