ARTISTS AND CREATIVES
We put the world, identity, and lived experience of creatives at the heart of our therapy approach, to help you build a better relationship with your creativity.
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Who is Creative?
Everybody! We all use creativity every day. But this therapy experience is for those who have a creative identity, whether as a hobby or a profession.
This includes:
- Artists and musicians
- Performance and sports
- Business owners, scientists, and academics
Are you a highly-creative person? Read more about creative identity here
Creatives Have Specific Mental Health Needs
Creatives are led by a strong, but often cloudy, desire to create. Whether or not it's a source of income, it's the passion and identity that make one a creative.
Though creativity is vast, we've found specific challenges that exist across creative fields. Our therapy dives into the nuance of the spaces, identities, and experiences that creatives navigate.
This could include the following:
- Managing creative blocks and burnout
- Navigating the highs/lows of the creative process alongside mania or depression
- Reducing performance anxiety or performance ambivalence
- Handling systemic issues with your field, such as abusive power dynamics, toxic competitive relationships, or harmful body image expectations
- Using your unique creative skills to build trauma resilience
- Redefining who and what your creativity is for, so that your self-worth doesn't suffer from public appraisal
Read about some common mental health challenges that creatives and artists face
OUR MISSION
Traditional therapy is largely uninformed of the clinical needs of creatives. That creativity is often both the source and solution of mental health challenges is fascinating, and yet not explored enough.
At Wellspring Connection, our mission is to help you develop a better relationship with your creativity. We do this bringing an informed clinical approach that brings clarity to what is, often, a very messy process.
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