Therapy for Creatives and Performers

Are you a musician, artist, writer or performer who is struggling but finding it hard to talk to someone who truly understands your world?

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Creative life can be deeply fulfilling. It can also be relentless. The pressure to achieve, to prove yourself, to keep producing — while also trying to make a living in an industry that offers little security and even less stability. That tension doesn't just affect your work. It gets inside you.

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You might be dealing with:

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• The constant pressure to perform, achieve, and justify your creative choices

• Financial anxiety and the precariousness of a life built around your art

• An injury or physical difficulty that's affecting your ability to do the work you love

• Feeling undervalued, unseen or exploited within the hierarchies of your industry

• Self-doubt and self-esteem that rises and falls with external validation

• Burnout - the exhaustion of giving so much of yourself to something that doesn't always give back

• The difficulty of balancing creative work, relationships and the rest of life

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These aren't small things. And they're not things you can easily explain to someone who hasn't spent time in that world.

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I have that experience.

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I spent 20 years working in music and arts education before training as a therapist. I understand the specific pressures of creative life: the hierarchies, the power imbalances, the way identity and work become inseparable, the grief that comes when your relationship with your art becomes painful.

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That background shapes how I work. I don't need the world explaining to me. We can get straight to what matters.

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I'm an integrative therapist, which means I work in a way that fits you rather than applying a rigid method. I combine a warm, person-centred approach with psychodynamic thinking, helping you feel genuinely heard while also making sense of the patterns that keep showing up. My practice is also LGBTQIA+ affirming, inclusive and anti-oppressive.

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I work online and in person in London, at London Bridge (SE1) and Golders Green (NW11).

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Ready to talk? I offer a free 20-minute introduction call — a chance to talk about what's bringing you to therapy and see if we feel like a good fit.