In working with writers, actors, artists, and musicians, I’ve found this dance of opposites is often served well by narrative, somatic, psychoanalytic, and Jungian approaches.
Creativity and the creative act, the notion that everything is intimately connected to its opposite, the need for plumbing our depths through imagination, dreams, play, and art in every form – these lie at the heart of narrative, psychoanalytic, and Jungian thinking and practice.
In working with the creative and the parts of ourselves that animate our creativity, we often discover that chorus of many different parts of ourselves. Sometimes this can create harmony, just as often there can be a roar that shows up as creative depletion, performance fears, imposter syndrome, distraction and stuckness, or the feeling that our gift has finally deserted us.
I have extensive training and background in somatic, psychoanalytic, and Jungian analytic techniques, as well as personal experience of my own creative practice and engagement.