The Unhappy Professional

Therapy for Creatives

The mind that makes can also carry a lot.

Creative work isn’t just output—it’s personal.

Whether you’re making art, content, brands, or stories, creative work often means navigating:

  • Deadlines that collide with inspiration

  • Performance or production pressure in uncertain markets

  • Constant self-evaluation or public feedback

  • A need to protect your originality while staying commercially relevant

  • Working alone, freelancing, or shifting between gigs

  • Over-identifying with work, or not knowing where work ends and you begin

The process can be deeply rewarding—and quietly draining.
Especially when there’s no separation between your output and your identity.

Outside of work, other things can feel complicated too.

  • Relationships impacted by emotional cycles or late nights

  • Feeling misunderstood by people who value stability over creativity

  • Difficulty switching off your brain or managing emotional intensity

  • Internal standards that are hard to meet—and hard to stop chasing

These aren’t signs of failure.
They’re signs that you’re carrying a lot—and that it might help to have space to sort through it.

How Therapy Can Help

Therapy doesn’t take away your edge.
It helps you work with it—so it doesn’t work against you.

Common goals include:

  • Managing stress without numbing or shutting down

  • Supporting creative flow by regulating your nervous system

  • Building stronger emotional boundaries around your work

  • Processing feedback, rejection, or instability with less volatility

  • Feeling less reactive in relationships without suppressing your voice

  • Reconnecting with your creativity without burning yourself out

Our Approach

  • EMDR therapy to help calm the nervous system without shutting down your creative instincts

  • Psychodynamic work to understand internal patterns and self-concept

  • Sessions designed for introspective, high-functioning professionals

  • Judgment-free. No clichés. Just intelligent support for people who think and feel deeply

Details

  • Private-pay only — no insurance

  • $250 per session

  • 30-minute video consultation available at no cost

  • Virtual sessions available in NY, VA, DC, CO, NC, and WA

You make a lot of space for expression.

This is space for you.

Our Claim:

We help high-achieving professionals succeed by becoming authentic.
When they stop living behind armor, their work and relationships come alive.

What clients say:

“Zack was a patient and caring guide through a difficult time.

He provided a therapeutic relationship that offered a balance of support and challenge, helping me build a stronger foundation from which to live my life.

Through EMDR I was also able to travel to the root of many beliefs that were stifling my growth — making core changes to how I see myself and my world — opening up more love in all directions.

I’m grateful.”

-AB