Counseling For Creative People

Counseling For Creative People Counseling for Creative People is a private therapy practice based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.

Currently I am providing online therapy to clients.

How do people heal through creative expression? Many approaches and examples highlight art as an integral part to one’s...
05/02/2025

How do people heal through creative expression? Many approaches and examples highlight art as an integral part to one’s healing journey. As a therapist and creative person, I am inspired by humans’ impulse to create and make meaning of their experiences. This series of posts will concentrate on how healing intersects with creative expression.

One piece of the puzzle is the world of sensorimotor art therapy. What is it? Sensorimotor art therapy is a “bottom-up” or body-centered approach to art therapy. It focuses on helping individuals become more aware and work through physical sensations, emotions and experiences by engaging in artmaking that is often tactile oriented. This can look like working with materials like clay, finger painting or fiber arts.

As I spend more and more time doing therapeutic work with clients, I’ve learned how important it is to develop a sense o...
08/14/2024

As I spend more and more time doing therapeutic work with clients, I’ve learned how important it is to develop a sense of acceptance and compassion for the different parts of ourselves. Self-compassion helps us find more inner harmony. This week, I explored some creative writing prompts that are an entry point to exploring self-compassion. Visit the website for more.

Hello! This week I wrote about boredom - a little bit of etymology and thoughts regarding working with it. The article ...
07/24/2024

Hello! This week I wrote about boredom - a little bit of etymology and thoughts regarding working with it.

The article is posted on my website.

Understanding intolerance of uncertainty is an important concept that helps to address anxiety. Often times someone who ...
11/17/2022

Understanding intolerance of uncertainty is an important concept that helps to address anxiety. Often times someone who experiences acute anxiety has difficulties dealing with uncertainty. They may worry and do everything they can to avoid and eliminate uncertainty in daily situations. This can lead to unhelpful behaviors such as seeking excessive reassurance or excessive list-making, double or triple checking, refusing to rely on others or delegate tasks, and procrastination and avoidance. One helpful approach to work through uncertainty is to actually build tolerance for the things we don’t always have answers for. We can address this by way of identifying certain behaviors that help us to practice better tolerating the unknown. This can be things like letting someone else make plans if you feel a strong pull to manage situations or delegating important tasks at work or at home.

In therapy we can identify these things together and come up with a supportive and helpful plan. This is one of many approaches that helps to address anxiety in a productive and meaningful way.

“Have You Been Good To Yourself” by Johnnie Frierson. Have you been good to yourself?Have you been getting your proper r...
06/28/2022

“Have You Been Good To Yourself” by Johnnie Frierson.

Have you been good to yourself?
Have you been getting your proper rest?
Have you been sleeping at least eight hours?
Have you been eating the right kind of food?
Have you been getting enough exercise?
Have you been living a righteous life?

A lot of people they work too hard
A lot of people depend on drugs
A lot of people they go too far
A lot of people don't rest enough
A lot of people not eating right
A lot of people not eating right
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If you get a chance to listen to this song I think it will brighten up your day. I discovered Johnny Frierson this year going through the Light In The Attic records catalog. I mention him because I’ve recently started to listen to lyrics more closely and realize that discovering words that deeply resonate can be a powerful space for emotional processing.

Frierson’s lyrics in this song cut to the chase. He asks some fundamental questions that I think are worth asking ourselves, especially when the world feels in flux and we need to anchor ourselves.

When I have clients struggling, we acknowledge and work to understand the emotions, thought and feelings coming up. Sometimes it can bring us to a place of asking some of these essential, foundational questions. Are you getting enough sleep? Are you eating well? Are you moving your body? Are you feeling connected to others?

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5619 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA
90042

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+18482283701

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