Performers & Creative Artists

Working as a performer or creative artist has its own unique set of challenges. These may present themselves in numerous ways, such as creative blocks, performance anxiety, career worries, low self-esteem, an unhelpful inner critic, compulsive behaviours and addiction, procrastination, problematic relationships, retirement, illness or injury. In sessions I will work together with you to explore and process your own unique experiences, help you to understand what may be holding you back and keeping you stuck as we uncover the underlying issues and discover healthier ways of coping with the stresses, doubts and fears.

 

Having spent many years in the music and theatre industries, performing, writing and working in collaboration with creative artists, I experienced my own share of the highs and lows of the business. As a performer I was confronted, through injury, with having to give up my life as a musician, something which had seemed unimaginable to me.

 

Working with a therapist gave me the opportunity to find acceptance of my loss, but also to get to know myself at a much deeper level and gain an understanding of the patterns of behaviour which had often held me back. This experience inspired me to train as a therapist, and I now feel passionate about helping others to find their own ways through their own challenges, uncertainty and change.