Therapy for Actors, Musicians, & Creatives in Los Angeles
Support for creative people navigating pressure,
passion, and uncertainty
As a creative or artist, you have access to wonder, beauty, and a unique way of seeing the world — but that depth doesn’t always feel good. Creative work often comes with uncertainty, pressure, emotional exposure, and long stretches of self-doubt.
Many artists and creatives are big feelers. Your empathy, passion, and sensitivity shape your work and allow you to connect deeply with others. They can also be exhausting, especially in competitive, unstable, or high-demand creative fields.
At Kindman & Co., we offer therapy that makes space for both the gifts and the challenges of creative life. Through therapy, we support artists and creatives in understanding their emotional worlds, navigating pressure and burnout, and reconnecting with meaning, freedom, and inspiration in ways that feel sustainable.
creativity & big feelings
Many artists are deeply attuned to the world around them. Creative work often grows out of emotional sensitivity, curiosity, and a capacity to notice subtle shifts in mood, meaning, and experience.
Many of the creatives we work with also identify as highly sensitive, noticing and feeling subtle shifts in their environment, relationships, and inner world more intensely than others.
That same openness can mean feeling things more intensely than others. The beauty, pain, and complexity of the world can land deeply, sometimes fueling creative expression and sometimes becoming emotionally exhausting — especially when you’re trying to simply live your life, not make art.
Therapy can offer support in learning how to care for your emotional world with more intention. Rather than dulling or suppressing feeling, our work with creatives focuses on helping you relate to your emotions in ways that feel more sustainable, so your sensitivity can remain a source of depth rather than depletion.
Our approach to therapy centers emotional depth, relational care, and sustainability for creative lives.
Challenges artists and creatives often face
Creative work touches many parts of your life, not just the time you spend making art. While every artist’s experience is different, there are common challenges that bring creatives and performers to therapy. Below are some of the experiences we often hear about in our work with artists, musicians, actors, and other creatives.
When creative work feels draining
Whether your art is visual, written, performative, or anything between, you likely relate to feeling drained by your work at times.
When creative work starts to feel draining, it can be confusing and discouraging. Many creatives come to therapy feeling exhausted by their relationship to their art, or stuck in cycles of avoidance and loss of motivation.
Whether creativity is your livelihood or something you make time for alongside other responsibilities, exhaustion can make it hard to stay connected to your work or to yourself.
The work we do encourages creatives to dive deeper into their expressive medium. Therapy can offer support during periods when creativity feels inaccessible, helping you explore what’s beneath the fatigue and reconnect with your expressive self with more care and compassion.
When creative block sets in
Creative block is a very real experience for many artists. It can feel sudden and disorienting, especially when you’re no longer able to do something you’ve practiced or relied on for years.
Some people compare this experience to “the yips” in sports, when a trained body seems to forget what it knows how to do. For creatives, this can look like nothing feeling right on the page, the canvas, or the stage — no matter how hard you try to fix it.
Therapy can offer support when creative block starts to feel isolating or discouraging.
Together, we can explore what may be contributing to the block and develop ways to gently reconnect with your creative flow, without forcing or pushing through.
you feel anxious & doubt yourself
Creative work often exists in a confusing cultural space. Artists are frequently told their work isn’t serious or valuable unless it brings recognition, money, or fame. Living inside that contradiction can quietly fuel anxiety, comparison, and self-doubt.
We also work with creatives who are outwardly successful & well-known — yet still struggle with anxiety, imposter syndrome, or a persistent feeling of inauthenticity. Achievement doesn’t necessarily bring clarity or ease, and it can raise new questions about purpose, identity, and whether your work still feels like yours.
Therapy can offer space to unpack these pressures and reconnect with what feels meaningful to you. Together, we can explore what brings a sense of fulfillment, alignment, and joy, and support you in making choices about your creative life that feel more grounded and authentic.
Your creative expression matters, whether it’s shared widely or held privately. You and your art are valuable.
struggles within artistic partnerships
Creative partnerships come in many forms, and not all meaningful relationships are romantic. Artistic collaborators like bandmates, co-stars, creative partners, or crews are central relationships that deeply shape both the work itself and your daily life.
When collaboration starts to feel tense, disconnected, or conflict-ridden, it can affect not only the creative process but also your sense of trust, safety, and enjoyment in the work. Relationship therapy can offer space to explore communication patterns, power dynamics, unmet needs, and shared goals within artistic partnerships.
Whether you’re navigating ongoing conflict, creative differences, or a sense of drift from collaborators you once felt aligned with, therapy can support you to find clarity, repair, and ways of working together that feel more sustainable and respectful of everyone involved.
A therapeutic space for creative lives
At Kindman & Co., we understand that creativity isn’t just something you do — it’s a way of relating to the world.
Many of the artists and creatives we work with experience life with depth, nuance, and emotional intensity, and we see these qualities as meaningful strengths.
Our work is grounded in relationship, curiosity, and respect for your unique perspective.
Therapy isn’t about dulling your sensitivity or pushing you toward productivity. It’s about creating space to understand yourself more fully, tend to what feels heavy, and support a creative life that feels sustainable and aligned with who you are.
When you’re ready
If you’re looking for a space where your creative life is understood and taken seriously, you’re welcome here.
If you’d like to explore working together, you can schedule a free info session to ask questions and get a feel for our approach, or reach out when it feels right.
A low-pressure space to ask questions and get a feel for our approach.
