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
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Who is it for?
Artists: performers, writers, directors, dancers, musicians, designers, visual and socially engaged artists.
Collaborators: producers, crew, stage managers, technicians, venue staff and anyone holding space for creativity.
Community: Visual artists, Musicians or other creative facilitators working or wanting to work in community arts or schools.
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Social arts
Holding stories You may be holding personal, social, or political stories within your creative work and want a safe space to reflect, process, and grow.
Connecting with communities If you’re stepping into community arts for the first time, or may already offer creative wellbeing or social prescribing workshops but want to explore mental health accessibility or guidance on maintaining boundaries.
Exploring issues Looking for a sounding board to explore your connection to your creative content, how the work you do could effect the groups you are aiming to work with, we can work together to explore your arts impact.
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Autobiographical work
Your creative work is deeply personal and if you’re working on a project based on personal stories or issues that hit hard, we can take time to explore outside of the writing process or rehearsal room to ensure psychological safety along with planning for a containing creative process.
Looking at personal context and emotional boundaries can help you safely deepen connection to or explore how audiences may interact with the work and what this means to you.
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Reflective time
We can work together:
Individually with 1:1 support (online) for example if working on autobiographical work or exploring emotionally triggering text.
On-location sessions in rehearsal rooms, workshops, or project spaces to support, or co-facilitate the process.
Team reflection: group debriefs, restorative practice & reflective time using creative exercises for another perspective and start to think about how and what you leave behind, understand the challenges and what you carry on into your next steps.
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Elevate your Artist Wellbeing
Safeguards mental health in creative projects.
Builds resilience and psychological safety.
Supports deeper artistry and connecting content, without creative and emotional burnout
Frequently Asked Questions
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I draw on my therapeutic approaches but is tailored to the specific contet of your creative practise. If you are looking for clinical therapy for artists or your creative staff team, I can also offer that through the Explore page - or help you find the right referal.
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Yes - consultancy can take place online, and I’m open to travel for in-person work depending on the project needs.
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Get in touch, I understand the realities of arts funding and am happy to have an honest conversation about what’s possible for your project.
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This is something we could discuss as part of a consultancy agreement - get in touch to talk it thorugh.
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A free 30-minute call to talk about what you’re working on, what you need and whether I’m the right person to help.
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You can reach me anytime via my contact page or email cescamylescreativecounselling@gmail.com.
I aim to respond quickly around a dynamic working schedule where I am delivering activity in various locations, please highlight if your request is urgent.
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Individual artist wellbeing
£60 per 1 hour. Reduce rates available - get in touch to discuss.
Arts org Consultancy
Half day (up to 3 hours) £300
Full day (up to 6 hours) £500Per project / retainer - get in touch to discuss
Free 30-minute initial call for all organisations
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I’m an MBACP-registered integrative arts counsellor, physical theatre practitioner, and experienced arts facilitator specialising in inclusive practice, psychological safety, and creative wellbeing in visual arts and performance contexts. I have a background spanning devising, writing and performing for fringe and professional theatre, youth theatre, community performance, and therapeutic arts facilitation — and lived experiance of a developed disability — offering a uniquely grounded perspective for arts organisations, directors, and producers looking to improve accessibility and inclusion in the rehearsal room, approach emotionally or psychologically demanding creative work with care, or provide a trained holding presence for staff and creative teams during challenging projects. Whether you're developing your organisation's inclusive practice, navigating sensitive subject matter in a production, or seeking trauma-informed support for the people making the work, I’ll bring both artistic fluency and the therapeutic training to meet you where you are.