Explore the unconscious flow that fuels your creative work. Engage the depths of psyche to unlock vision, clarity, and authentic expression.
Seeing Differently: Manifesting New Perspectives
Emotional sensitivities can offer exquisite openings for experiencing and translating your unique perspective of the world in a way that is transformative for both the artist and the viewer.
The work of self-understanding in psychotherapy is critical to making impactful work. Creative blocks arise when the essential work of self examination is neglected and the issues that most need attention require confrontation that feels too difficult, disruptive or painful to attempt.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy offers a supportive exploratory framework in which to confront the void—that sense of “nothingness” that comes up when the one thing we really need to address is ignored but refuses to go away, occupying the space where creative ideas would otherwise flow freely.
Because the creative process is so deeply personal and often intimately linked to an individual’s sense of self worth, perceived failure or lack of productivity can feel devastating. Depressive tendencies and poor self-esteem can make accessing and manifesting one’s innate talent a challenge that might seem insurmountable.
Therapy for artists is an opportunity to engage in self reflection that allows your authentic creative spirit to come to light in all of its multiplicity so you can manifest the work that is uniquely yours, however it takes shape.
Finding Your Voice & Clarifying Your Creative Vision
Learning to listen to oneself is crucial to identifying and exploring one’s artistic voice.
By understanding ourselves better in psychotherapy, we come to understand our creative potential and expand our capacity to produce work that feels authentic, unique, and impactful, which in turn makes our lives more fulfilling and meaningful.
Confronting our wounds as individuals, artists, writers and thinkers is a necessary precursor to the subsequent opening of inspiration.
For people who are drawn to create and invent, share their stories, and translate the world via their unique perspective, the intersection of personal and professional is the place where innovation comes to fruition.
To know ourselves, our histories and our potentialities, is to know the future direction of our work as thinkers, makers, and writers.
The more personal the depths to which we delve, the more universal the work becomes.
During the analytic process of psychodynamic psychotherapy, 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 through which we come to know ourselves better, making the work of art an endeavor of enlightenment.
The deeper our self understanding, the richer our work becomes. The more nuance with which we see our work, the fuller and more dynamic the picture of our humanness becomes.
The Journey of Self Discovery
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.
When I arrived in San Francisco to begin the work of my own personal healing, one of the most transformative things that happened was the realization that my creative insights had the power to help others heal through the work of psychotherapy.
In the years that have followed, I have worked with painters, photographers, filmmakers, conceptual artists, sculptors, poets, and advertising creatives to facilitate personal exploration, healing, self awareness, and insight all with the goal of contributing to an art career that is vibrant and meaningful.
I love nothing more than to work with clients who want to use words and images to think deeply about who they are and what their work means to them, to their audience, and to contemporary culture. Integrating the process of personal exploration with the creative process has the power to exponentially 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, revealing your unique gifts and breathing new meaning into your work. I offer:
My office is in Tiburon, CA with easy proximity to Mill Valley, Sausalito and San Francisco. I see clients for therapy in person and online.
Making the Invisible Visible.
Expand perception. Invite transformation. Realize your vision.
