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Aaron Corte LMSW Founder and Clinical Director Hardly anything is more discouraging to highly creative people than burnout. Our generative energy gets sapped, and we encounter those dreaded “creative blocks.” These times are challenging if our job requires us to keep up our performance. And for more personal projects, this burnout can harm our self-worth. Creative burnout may also spiral into existential suffering. The more that we identify as a creative person, the stronger

Aaron Corte LMSW Founder and Clinical Director The creative experience can be messy, many in the arts and entertainment industries are at risk for substance use, bipolar, and depression disorders. Yet creativity also exists in many places outside the arts, like business and academia. And while we can't generalize the mental health experience of all creatives, there is one specific struggle that highly creative people across fields face. But before exploring that struggle, let

Aaron Corte LMSW Founder and Clinical Director I've been working on a research study of creativity and trauma for two years, and recently had a setback with the project. Things had been very busy, both at work and in my personal life, and I found myself wondering - can I even do this? I was stuck. I had reached new levels of growth, yet it didn't look how I'd imagined. It's like climbing a mountain and reaching a precipice, where the winds blow hard and the heights are daunti

There's a paradox within the creative arts: artistic expression appears to be both beneficial and harmful for mental health. What's going on here? Though neuroscience shows that creating art helps with issues like trauma, grief, and depression, professional artists often have higher rates of bipolar disorder, suicidality, and substance abuse. So, if creating art is supposedly healthy then why do artists struggle more? We'll explore this contradiction and share tips for how cr