YOU ARE MORE THAN YOUR LAST PROJECT.
Therapy for Creative Professionals
THERAPY IN LOS ANGELES AND ONLINE THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA
Whether you write, act, direct, compose, design, edit, or make art, the work can start to feel like a referendum of who you are.
A project wraps, and instead of relief, you feel a strange emptiness, as if you don’t quite exist until the next one starts.
You get ten good notes and one critical one, and the critical one is all you can hear for a week.
Someone you came up with books the job, lands the deal, or wins the award, and it sits in your chest for days.
You have ideas you believe in, but they stay in drafts and folders because they’re not ready yet. They never quite are.
A slow season turns into a verdict on your talent, your choices, and whether you should have done something “safer.”
Even when things are going well, you’re bracing for the moment it all stops.
Does this sound like you?
I spent twelve years in an edit bay, and it taught me what a creative career can do to your sense of self. Now I help creative people untangle the two.
I know this life from the inside: the deadlines, the long nights, the notes that land harder than they should, and the quiet panic when one job ends and the next one hasn’t shown up yet. So when you tell me about a brutal review, a pitch that went nowhere, or a project you can’t bring yourself to finish, you won’t have to explain why it hits so hard. I already get it.
How we’ll work together
When your work is personal, it’s hard not to take things personally. In therapy, we’ll explore what’s happening beneath that. Where did those impossibly high standards come from? Why does someone else’s opinion sometimes carry more weight than your own? Often, these struggles have roots that go well beyond your career. We’ll look at how your earlier experiences, relationships, and the expectations you’ve absorbed over time may be shaping the way you see yourself, both in your work and in your life.
But understanding a pattern isn’t the same as changing it. You may already know exactly why you’re so hard on yourself and still hear that familiar voice every time you sit down to create. So our work will go beyond insight.
We’ll pay attention to the feelings underneath the self-criticism, the fears that make risks so hard to take, and the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself from disappointment or judgment. Over time, you can begin to respond to those feelings differently, rather than letting them make your decisions for you.
The goal isn’t to get rid of your ambition or stop caring about your work. It’s to be able to care deeply about what you create without making it the measure of who you are.
Take in a critical note as information, without questioning your talent or abilities.
Get your ideas out of drafts and folders and into the world, before they feel “ready.”
Feel like yourself between projects, not just during them.
Therapy with me can help you
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