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I'm a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Toronto. After years working with musicians and other creative professionals in a traditional practice, I got specifically interested in one thing:

helping people make what they're actually trying to make.

 

What only they can make, because it's a reflection of who they are, at the deepest level. But being seen is both the thing you want and the thing you fear. Luckily, we already have a way to navigate this ambivalence, and it comes from psychotherapy.​​​​​

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The psychological barriers to creativity can be addressed using the same tools developed in traditional psychotherapy, but aimed at the creative process itself.

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I've come to believe that art is the true self made tangible, visible and public. That's why art moves us, and why it's so hard to make. It's why some of us are compelled to make it and seek it out, why we know immediately when it's true or when it's just a performance of truth, a facade.

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"An artist is someone driven by the tension between the need to communicate and the need to hide."
— D.W. Winnicott