Keen & Daring | The Daring Do.
Therapy for Creative People
Creative lives are rarely linear. They often involve risk, sensitivity, self-examination, economic uncertainty, public evaluation, unconventional relationships, and an ongoing negotiation between who we are privately and what we make or present to the world. After decades of working closely with creative people, I came to understand how deeply our work, relationships, histories, identities, and emotional lives are intertwined.
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy offers a confidential space to slow things down and look more closely at what is happening beneath the surface of everyday life.
Together, we may examine the connections between your thoughts, emotions, relationships, past experiences, and present circumstances.
Life Transitions & Reinvention
Some periods of life ask us to reconsider ideas about ourselves that may have been in place for decades.
Career changes, changing relationships, aging, professional success, professional disappointment, grief, creative evolution.
What do I actually want for my life now?
Relationship & Couples Therapy
Relationships often bring our deepest needs, expectations, vulnerabilities, and fears into focus.
Couples and relationship therapy can help partners move beyond the question of who is right or wrong and begin understanding the dynamics developing between them.
Suzanne Alicia Walsh
Marriage and Family Therapist | #165140
Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 20 years working in the fine art world as a gallery director, curator, writer, and creative consultant. During that time, I worked closely with artists, collectors, designers, writers, musicians, and other creative professionals, often accompanying people through periods of intense ambition, uncertainty, reinvention, success, disappointment, and change.
That experience profoundly informs the way I practice therapy.
My clinical training gave me another language for something I had already spent much of my professional life observing: people are complex, adaptive, relational, and constantly making meaning from their experiences.
As a result, I do not approach clients as a collection of symptoms. I am interested in understanding the whole person: your history, relationships, environment, work, strengths, contradictions, coping strategies, and the experiences that have shaped how you understand yourself and others.
My approach is informed by humanistic, narrative, relational, cognitive-behavioral, and systems-based perspectives. That being said, I do not believe there is one therapeutic method that works for everyone. Therapy should respond to the person in the room.
IF YOU NEED SUPPORT WITH:
- Anxiety, chronic stress, or feeling overwhelmed
- Depression or emotional disconnection
- Major life or career transitions
- Relationship difficulties or recurring relationship patterns
- Grief and loss
- Burnout or professional dissatisfaction
- Family conflict
- Difficulty regulating emotions
- Questions surrounding identity, purpose, or direction
- Creative blocks or loss of creative confidence
- The pressures of creative or unconventional professional lives
- Reinvention at midlife or during other periods of significant change
- The feeling that you understand your patterns intellectually but continue to repeat them
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Finding the right therapist matters. If something here resonates with you, I invite you to reach out. I make time for 15-minute consultations as well as full 60-minute sessions.