Inviting innovative minds who think deeply, dream expansively, and see the world differently to explore your inner landscape with psychotherapy that honors the unconscious, the imaginal, and the soul of creativity.
Emotional sensitivities can offer exquisite openings for experiencing and translating your unique perspective of the world, in ways that are transformative for both the artist and the viewer.
The journey of self-understanding in psychotherapy nurtures the foundation for work that feels deeply meaningful.
Creative blocks often arise when the essential work of self-examination is set aside, and the flow of inspiration is interrupted by the insistent presence of what feels too difficult or painful to confront alone.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy offers a supportive, exploratory framework for meeting the void—that sense of “nothingness” that arises when the one thing we most need to address is ignored but refuses to go away, occupying the space where creative ideas might otherwise flow.
Because the creative process is so deeply personal, and often intimately linked to your sense of self-worth, periods of struggle or perceived failure can feel devastating. Depressive tendencies and poor self-esteem can make accessing and expressing your innate gifts feel almost impossible.
Therapy for artists is an invitation to engage in self-reflection, allowing your authentic creative spirit to emerge in all its multiplicity, so you can manifest the work that is uniquely yours, however it takes shape.
Here is an invitation to listen closely to your own subtle undercurrents as you slow down to explore your exploring your creative impulse. In therapy for artists, this deepened self-awareness becomes a portal to creative expression.
To descend the psychic staircase and meet your shadow — as artist, writer, thinker, or seeker — is to approach the threshold of meaning.
Many artists dance at the edge of intensity, beauty, and collapse — in the pursuit of inspiration or relief. If you’re navigating that terrain, my private addiction treatment program offers a discreet, trauma-informed space for healing — without abandoning your creative self.
In the underworld of the self, the old identity is surrendered and, eventually, composted. A seed is planted in that fertile dark. And from this slow transformation, inspiration begins to stir — rising gently through the gate, awakened after a long and necessary slumber.
Within the psychodynamic inquiry that characterizes therapy for artists, there will be moments when an image, a thought, a fragment of a memory or a dream will show up without effort, appearing almost of its own accord. Slowing down to listen to and explore the meaning of this new material can be an expansive process for the spirit and intellect, making the work of art an endeavor of enlightenment.
Creativity therapy helps you explore your inner landscape — the symbolic, emotional, and ancestral layers — to create a life and body of work that feels resonant and meaningful. In this process, healing and creative realization are deeply intertwined, each informing and expanding the other.
To know yourself — your history and your potentiality — is to know the future direction of your work a a thinker, maker or writer. The more personal the descent, the more universal the work becomes. And as self understanding deepens, the tapestry of your creative vision often becomes richer, more nuanced and more alive.
Therapy for creative minds is a path not just of healing, but of creative awakening. In the process of coming to know yourself more fully, psychotherapy can help you access the source of your creative potential and expand your capacity to produce work that is authentic, resonant, and impactful.
I am a psychodynamic therapist with a past life as an artist. Prior to becoming a therapist, I earned an MFA in a graduate program at the International Center of Photography in New York City that emphasized photography as conceptual art — a medium of inquiry as much as expression.
When I arrived in San Francisco to begin the work of my own personal healing, one of the most transformative realizations was this: my creative insight had the power to light the way for others to heal through the work of psychotherapy.
Since then, I have had the privilege of working with painters, photographers, designers, poets, filmmakers, conceptual artists and advertising creatives — supporting personal exploration, insight, and healing in service of a creative life that is vital and deeply meaningful.
I love nothing more than to co-creating the process of awareness with clients who use words and images to think deeply about who they are and what their work means — to themselves, their audience, and contemporary culture. Integrating the process of personal exploration with the creative process has the power to dramatically improve the quality of your work.
It is my honor to walk with you along the circuitous and magical path of the artist’s way, helping to unearth your gifts and breathe new meaning into your work.
Offerings include individual therapy for artists and creative minds, with creative therapy intensives, private workshops, and retreats on the horizon.
My office is in Tiburon, CA with easy proximity to San Francisco. I see clients for therapy in person and offer online therapy throughout California.
