Therapy for Creative and Eclectic Minds
You’ve Been to Therapy Before
Your last therapist tried to make you more consistent.
They meant well. They suggested routines and wondered aloud whether your projects were a form of avoidance.
The steering was gentle. It pointed, every time, at a smaller and more manageable version of your life.
You spent the hour defending how you work. Then you paid for the hour.
Somewhere in there you stopped bringing up the thing that matters to you. Explaining it cost more than it returned.
Two Different Things Arrive in a First Session
Some of what you brought in as a flaw is simply how your mind works. Part of it is genuinely costing you something.
Telling those two apart is where the first sessions focus.
I Have Spent My Life Around People Who Make Things
My doctoral work at Alliant International University studied filmmaking as a clinical intervention.
I teach in that graduate program now.
Long before that, and ever since, I have been around people who make things.
So you will not have to justify why the work matters before we can talk about it. That part is already understood.
We Can Use Your Work Directly
Music, images, and writing come into sessions with people who think in those languages.
You show me the sculpture you are forming that is creating a roadblock or photography you’ve taken that tells you a story.
You play me the thing you have been circling for a month. We start there, in the actual material.
Sometimes, a song can get closer than a paragraph.
I Would Rather You Use the Hour
You should not have to translate yourself in therapy.
What is genuinely costing you gets attention. What is simply how you operate gets left alone.
The projects stay yours. The hour becomes usable.
I Keep Your First Call Short
Book a free 15-minute call to describe how you operate rather than how you are ‘supposed to.’
Sessions are by video in California, 55 minutes each, with adults 18 and older. Make that first call: (805) 635-2153.
Start with 15 Minutes on the Phone
Before you commit to anything, you tell me roughly what is going on. I ask a few questions. Then I tell you honestly what I think, including whether I am the right person for it.
If I am not, I will try to point you toward someone who is, and I would rather do that in fifteen minutes than in six weeks. You are also interviewing me.
We will talk about what is not moving, and what it would take to move it.