CREATE

Making things is meaningful work. It's also exhausting, exposing, and often invisible in how much it takes from you.

Whether you're a freelance artist, a performer, a maker, director, or someone who leads creative work within an organisation — the emotional and psychological demands of that work are real. And they're rarely talked about.

The Create strand of Create Support offers two things: direct support for individual artists, and consultancy for arts organisations who want to bring therapeutic, trauma-informed, inclusive thinking into their work.

FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS

Support for the emotional weight of creative work.

Creative work asks a lot. It asks you to be vulnerable, to keep going through rejection, to sustain a practice — often without financial security or institutional support. Over time, that takes a toll.

Artist wellbeing support offers a space to:

•       Explore burnout, creative block, or loss of connection with your practice

•       Work through the identity questions that come with being an artist — who you are when you're not making, what happens when the work dries up

•       Process the particular grief of projects that didn't happen, careers that changed, or creative relationships that ended

•       Reconnect with why you make things, on your own terms

Sessions draw on integrative arts counselling and are tailored to you. We might work creatively together, or we might talk. We follow your lead.

Fees: £60 per session (1 hour). Reduced rates available — get in touch to discuss.

FOR ARTS ORGANISATIONS

Therapeutic arts consultancy for organisations doing meaningful work.

Arts organisations increasingly understand that the wellbeing of their artists, participants, and staff matters — but knowing how to approach it thoughtfully is another thing.

I offer therapeutic arts consultancy for organisations — including small independent organisations and NPO-funded arts charities — who want to:

•       Embed wellbeing thinking into creative projects and programmes

•       Support artists and facilitators working with vulnerable or marginalised communities

•       Develop trauma-informed approaches to community arts work

•       Provide reflective practice or wellbeing support for creative teams

•       Think through the therapeutic dimensions of a specific project or commission

I understand arts budgets, funding language, and the particular pressures of project-based work. I bring therapeutic knowledge to creative contexts without medicalising them — keeping the work grounded, human, and connected to why arts practice matters.

Artist Wellbeing & Consultancy