Counseling for Artists
Providing affordable counseling to artists, writers, performers, and arts educators.
Providing affordable counseling to artists, writers, performers, and arts educators.
Urban and rural Massachusetts creatives 18+ who identify as part of a diverse American subculture with shared values, language, and socioeconomic constraints. We welcome visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers. crafters, art workers and arts educators.
With knowledge of what it takes to sustain the life of a creative, we provide affordable online counseling to individuals from early through late adulthood seeking help with stress management, anxiety, depression, grief, loss, trauma, isolation, creative blocking, communication and relationship problems, and adjustment to life transitions.
My style is typically open, curious, compassionate, empathic, and humorous. With attunement to your particular background, values, beliefs, strengths, vulnerabilities, situation, and goals, interventions may include practices rooted in
Person-Centered, Existential, Psychodynamic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Jungian, Focusing-Oriented, Drama, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, all of which I am happy to discuss.
Please send a secure message or email to schedule a 50-minute phone consultation at no charge.
61 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, Massachusetts 02474, United States
In addition to private practice since 1994 I have served as a clinical supervisor and counselor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, as a psychology professor at Lesley University, and as a psychology guest lecturer in academic settings including Berklee College of Music, Emerson College and the New England Center for Existential Therapy.
Prior to becoming a therapist, I worked with artists in various roles including Director of Public Information at The Institute of Contemporary Art, writer and publicist at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, public art PR consultant at The Massachusetts Port Authority, and as a freelance arts writer for publications, including The Boston Globe. I received my M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University and my B.A. in English Literature from Boston College.
Shawn McGivern, LMHC