Therapy & Coaching for creative lives
Move through the patterns that get in the way of making, sharing and sustaining your creative work.
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When your self-expression, livelihood, visibility and identity are closely intertwined, creative work can bring its own pressures. Sonia works with artists, musicians, performers, writers, directors, designers and other creative professionals.
You can bring perfectionism, creative blocks, performance anxiety, fear of visibility, self-doubt despite significant ability, inconsistent output, career direction and the difficulty of balancing creativity with structure or business demands.
Therapy & Coaching gives you space to understand what inhibits you, meet difficult feelings with more steadiness and develop practical ways to make, share and sustain your creative work.
If attention, sensory overload or ADHD is part of your experience, explore support for neurodivergent lives. You do not need to separate your creative work from the rest of your life to begin.
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When perfectionism becomes a barrier
You may have a clear idea and the ability to make it, yet keep revising, researching or waiting until it feels safe to share. A commission, audition, launch or public response can begin to feel like a judgement of your whole self. You can explore the anxiety underneath that pressure while making room for practical decisions about your work.
Explore private online anxiety therapy →A creative life you have capacity to inhabit
Periods of intense output, financial uncertainty and responsibility for your own business can leave little space to recover. You may be producing work while feeling increasingly disconnected from it, or carrying pressure home to the people closest to you.
The work makes room for the person behind the practice. You can look at boundaries, fear of disappointing people, the relationship between your work and your worth, and what a more sustainable rhythm would ask of you.
Explore online burnout therapy →Personal support with practical depth
A session can begin with the moment you are avoiding: sending a proposal, naming a fee, receiving feedback or returning to a project. Sonia helps you explore the feelings and assumptions around it, then consider a response you can try without needing to become a different person first.
This is support for your inner health, mental health and wellbeing. It is not portfolio advice or a promise of commercial success. Sonia brings training in personal counselling, relationship counselling and life coaching to a process shaped around you.
Explore Sonia’s therapeutic qualifications →When being good never feels good enough
Perfectionism can feel like care for your work while leaving you unable to finish, share or rest. Understanding that tension can be part of making space for a different response.
Read about therapy for perfectionism →Take the first step at your pace.
In your free 20-minute online consultation, you and Sonia talk about where you are, what is happening and where you would like to get to. Together, you decide whether working together feels like a good fit. You do not need to have everything worked out before you begin.
Individual Therapy & Coaching sessions are 45 minutes: £95 per session by Direct Debit, or £110 for a one-off session.
“I take a lot away from every session I have, more than I could have imagined.”
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