Wordsworth once said good poetry is “spontaneous overflow of feelings”, coming out of “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. Music as art is a form of poetry- capturing an audience through personal storytelling. 

​

Writers block and the inability to articulate the feelings from a time in a person’s life can halt creatives in their tracks. While inspiration can strike at any time, exploring some of the defining themes and events in your life can help you create songs which are wholly authentic to you.  With 9 years working within the music industries hearing singer/songwriters discuss some of their artistic processes it has enabled me to recognise that working with people exploring themselves helps.

​

Having worked alongside those in the music industry. I have come across singer/songwriters who have discussed their artistic processes. As a creative, therapy with someone familiar within the industry can lend emotional and directional support in finding, homing in on their message, and using that focus to bring their vision to life.

Therapy helps people process emotions and feelings of guilt, remorse, grief and sadness. Counselling and talking therapy facilitate people to dedicate time to facing and confronting these feelings. 

​

For a creative it is an important balance between letting the art create itself and good direction. Homing in on life events or experiences can allow a client to explore how an event or time in their life made them feel making it easier for them to articulate it.

​

When there is a set appointment with a person, you’re committed to them for a period of time, meaning you can’t put off or run away from facing your feeling. Equally you are less likely to be distracted whilst you are facing those feelings.

​

What I aim to do is facilitate clients to get in touch with these feelings and in the case of creatives allows them to access those feelings by bringing them from the unconscious into the conscious enabling them to get these down on paper.