Psychology Consultation for Writers, Novelists, and Artists
Unlock your creative potential and
create from the depths of your soul.
As we examine your creative process and your artistic projects, we deepen your connection to your work and help you find a harmonic relationship to your art.
With 25 years working in the field of psychology and over a decade of writing and visual arts experience, I love supporting creative minds with their artistic process.
Why do I love working with artists so much?
Because you are ALREADY involved in a deep and profound therapeutic process: Art making. This creates a highly specialized space for us to make clear and translatable progress in your work.
You might be:
A writer:
seeking greater depth in your voice and clarity in your message.
A musician:
desiring to infuse more authenticity and flow into your process.
An artist:
struggling with identity, creative blocks, or imposter syndrome.
A creator:
working on a project that requires a trauma-informed approach or mental health sensitivity.
A deep-feeling creative mind:
uncovering your own traumas or limiting beliefs coming up during your process of creation.
A novelist:
looking to develop psychologically-accurate characters with a realistic journey towards healing - or complete collapse!
Use my unique blend of therapeutic, spiritual, intuitive, and creative experience to help you own your artistic identity, unapologetically.
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Address your limiting beliefs and help you establish a healthier mindset to approach your work.
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Deepen your understanding of how your life is mirrored in your art and how your art mirrors life back to you. We can examine your art and listen to what it is telling you.
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Develop a harmonious relationship with your creative process that helps you find a stable baseline of creation.
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Provide mental health and psychological education about human behavior to help craft fictional narratives that feel real, alive, and emotionally captivating. Our work will help you feel more confident in your story's design, message, and arc.
Examples of what I can do for you:
Options for working together:
Option One: One-Time Creative Consultation over Zoom
Let's meet and talk it out! In our one-on-one session, we will dive into your creative project, process, ideas, and goals. After excavating soul's desires and identifying your expressive needs, you will leave with reflections, feedback, ideas, and direction.
Option Two: Five-Session Creative Intensive Package over Zoom
For creatives who want to work in a progression of sessions, the Five-Session Creative Intensive Package allows us time for your art to deepen and unfold while we work together. A Creative Intensive Packages ensures you get the support you deserve and the tangible changes you desire.
Option Three: Tarot Spread for Creative Exploration
Need something a little bit different to get the energy flowing? Try a Tarot card reading for your project! Tarot is a beautiful intuitive and artistic practice that can be used as a prompt to guide you back to your creative self.
Why Tarot?
A visual medium can work better for some artistic minds than just talking alone. Tarot cards reflect the hero's journey that is so often referenced in our creative projects.
The cards represent different stages of birth, growth, obstacles, triumphs, learning, completions, and deaths/new beginnings.
Tarot can help you:
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Remember who you are as an artist and name your core obstacles, strengths and themes.
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Sink deeper into your fictional character's full personality, strengths and struggles.
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Feel inspired with support, options, guidance, prompts, and renewed excitement.
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Try on different options for your projects, story, or process to see how each path feels for you.
All Creative Consultation services are intended for short-term, targeted work.
For longer term explorations, healing, and discovery, consider Therapeutic Coaching.
When we use this visual depiction of the hero's journey with a touch of art therapy, and a dash of intuition, we can help you out of your logical and liner brain and back into alignment with your natural creativity.
Endorsements
"I highly recommend teaming up with Liz for your fiction projects. She has an incredibly attuned ability to give insight into character motivation and is able to help you tease out those “aha-moment” ways to strengthen characterization. Her support can make your story come alive through uncovering its depths.
Liz is deeply intuitive and is trained in, and knowledgeable about, both psychology and fiction writing. These brings these experiences and strengths together to artfully guide you to producing the best, most rounded version of your work."
- Liza Monroy, author of The Distractions and Writing Instructor at the Stanford Continuing Studies Novel and Memoir Certificate Programs
"I was struggling to find a believable rationale for my protagonist’s extraordinary behavior. By delving into the character’s psychological profile, Liz helped me fine tune her story in a way that both justified her actions and made her more complex and interesting. Because Liz is a writer herself, she understood the importance of helping me through this process without stepping on or sacrificing my vision. I would recommend Liz to any creator who is looking to understand their characters on a psychological level."
- Jen Martin, Novelist and Stanford Novel Writing Certificate Graduate