Therapy for Artists, Performers, and Creative People

Therapist for artists and performers Oklahoma City: you make things. Or you used to, before the block set in. Or you still do, but you spend more time dreading the work than doing it. You compare yourself to everyone else and come up short. You finish something and immediately see everything wrong with it. You wonder if you have any right to call yourself an artist at all.

A lot of creative people grew up being told, directly or indirectly, that ambition was dangerous. That wanting attention was vain. That standing out was asking for trouble. That making art was self-indulgent when there were more practical things to do. Some of that came from family. Some came from religion. Some came from communities where being different was a liability.

For LGBTQ creatives especially, the message was often even sharper: that your self-expression, your identity, your way of seeing the world was something to be hidden or corrected. That the most authentic parts of you were the most dangerous ones.

Those messages don't disappear when you grow up and start making work. They show up as the inner critic. As performance anxiety before an audition or a show. As the inability to finish anything because finishing means it can be judged. As the compulsion to compare your work to everyone else's and always find yours lacking. As the feeling that you're a fraud who will eventually be found out.

Therapy for creatives isn't about learning to be more productive or developing a better morning routine. It's about understanding where the block comes from, what the critic is protecting, and what it would mean to make work from a different place. A place that isn't fear.

I work with people in theater, stage, film, television, radio, music, visual arts, writing, and design. I work with people who are performing professionally and people who are trying to get back to work they've abandoned. I work with people who are in the middle of a creative career and people who are just starting to take their work seriously.