Explore the unconscious flow that fuels your creative work. Engage the depths of psyche to unlock vision, clarity & authentic expression.
Inviting innovative minds who think deeply, dream expansively, and see the world differently to explore their inner landscape in a therapeutic space 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 our 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.
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.
