A Self Care Map, Part 1
Houston is a pretty big city. Large enough to make the top 10 in the US! So it makes sense that it can be a little hard to navigate at...
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Shea McTaggart, Psy.D.
- Apr 28, 2022
- 5 min
Feeling Disconnected?
Having recently attended a wedding and experiencing an opportunity to witness and speak to a newly wedded couple as well as all the...
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Dan Workman
- Oct 31, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 14: Creating Art vs. Doing Therapy
A creative’s inner narrative can be externalized in therapy --using the client’s process as a way to discover hidden emotions.
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Dan Workman
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 13: 'Broadcast Suffering'
A look at the phenomenon of "broadcast suffering" -- a need for our trauma to be recognized and validated by an audience on social media.
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Dan Workman
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 12: You’re Not Your Diagnosis
Diagnosis is something the patient and I work on together. Our narrative of the problem—diagnosis—become
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Dan Workman
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 11: Selective Attention & Making Sense of the World
The creative person has an extra set of 'mental muscles' that are exercised each time novel solutions are formed.
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Dan Workman
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 10: Creative-Informed Therapy
Creative-informed therapy may lead to better and quicker therapeutic outcomes
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Dan Workman
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 7: Hacking Creativity
There are times when we just get stuck. In the creative world, the phenomena has many names: writer’s block, freezing up, stage fright, etc.
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Dan Workman
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 6: Positive Distraction
Therapists & psychiatrists have found ways to use ‘positive distraction' to focus feelings and thoughts to our benefit.
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Dan Workman
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
Therapy for Creatives, Part 4: The Myth of the Broken Muse
Finding a creative flow does not require partnering with a broken Muse.
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