A space for those who experience the world through image, symbol, and story
to navigate emotional intensity, identity conflict, relational instability, and addictive tendencies.
Sounding the depths of the unconscious to reveal the source of creativity.
Therapy for artists in San Francisco and Los Angeles is psychotherapy that inspires unique insights and shifts in perspective, clarifying the vision that drives your innovative work in daily life.
Many artists seek therapy when creative blocks, burnout, addiction, or identity crises begin to interfere with their ability to create.
Rather than using art as a therapeutic technique in session, I offer therapy for creatives — contemporary artists, writers, musicians, founders, tech innovators and visionaries — designed to deepen your practice and enrich your work.
Whether you’re a poet or an entrepreneur, this work is for those who want to explore their inner world and the meaning behind their creative work.
If you’re searching for “art therapy” but want a therapist who gets that creative people see things differently, you’re in the right place.
Move beyond problem-solving into deeper layers of meaning, integration, and creative awakening.
Therapy for artists in San Francisco and Los Angeles — or creative nomads and remote tech founders with geographic independence — is offered in person and online. If you’re ready to get to work, book a session.
For creative people who approach life itself as an unfolding work of art, psychotherapy can become part of a conceptual art practice — a space to examine perception, question assumptions, and explore the symbolic language that shapes your inner world.
Therapy for artists integrates psychotherapy with the creative process through reflection, curiosity, and imagination.
For many artists, moments of heightened emotional sensitivity offer openings to make meaning from chaos and translate your unique perspective of the world in ways that are transformative for both yourself and others.
The journey of self-discovery in psychotherapy nurtures the foundation for deeply meaningful work, whether you’re an architect, filmmaker, actor, director, or designer.
In therapy for artists, I use the word artist broadly to describe imaginative people whose experience of being alive is intense and vivid, and who may not feel they fit inside conventional social structures.
Many artists and creatives wrestle with questions of identity, belonging, and purpose.
Insight-oriented therapy offers an exploratory space to move through creative blocks that arise when the one thing we most need to address refuses to go away. Energized by possibility and still discouraged by self-doubt, periods of authentic inspiration may alternate with uncertainty, burnout or imposter syndrome.
This essential work of self-examination addresses the insistent presence of what feels too difficult or painful to confront alone.
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.
Depression and low self-esteem can make accessing and expressing your innate gifts feel almost impossible, at times.
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 work that is uniquely yours, however it takes shape.
Here is an invitation to listen closely to your own subtle undercurrents as you explore your creative impulse. In therapy for artists, this deepened self-awareness becomes a portal to creative expression.
Depth therapy for artists invites the images, thoughts, and fragments of memory or dream that surface when experience is slowed down and real listening begins. Exploring 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.
Creative 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 as 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 becomes richer, more nuanced, and more alive.
Therapy for artists 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.
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, I offer addiction therapy for artists — a discreet, trauma-informed space for recovery that doesn’t ask you to abandon your creative self.
Because the same sensitivity and porousness that makes your work a poignant translation of experiences that others miss or gloss over makes you more susceptible to addiction. To put it bluntly, artists and addicts are often the same people — it’s the dark and light of the moon, if you will.
Addiction treatment for artists explores the underworld of the self, prepares the ground for an old identity to be surrendered, and plants a seed in that fertile dark — nurturing the conditions for renewal all along the way.
From this slow and intentional transformation, inspiration begins to stir — rising gently through the gate, awakened after a long and necessary slumber.
What you may notice as you re-emerge into the sunlight is that your senses are even more acute than they were before — and that your addiction was a source of confusion rather than inspiration.
Check out the addiction therapy page for more focused information about substance abuse treatment for artists.
I am a therapist with a past life as an artist. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, 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 and recovery story, 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 depth 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 help artists and writers, makers and seekers, explore the constellation of words, images, memories, and sensations that comprise their own personal symbology.
Integrating personal exploration with the creative process by reflecting on who you are and what your work means — to you, your audience, and contemporary culture — can open new dimensions of resonance in your work.
It is my privilege to walk beside you along the circuitous and magical path of the artist’s way, as you unearth your gifts and breathe new life into your work.
I offer therapy for artists, writers, and founders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and throughout California. My office is located on the border of the Mission District and Potrero Hill, near California College of the Arts (CCA).
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