Therapy for Actors Therapy for Artists in Irvine, CA

Therapy for Actors & Artists in Irvine, CA

You Are Still Carrying The Things You Thought You Had Outgrown

You keep circling your journal like it might bite you. The blank page feels like the one scene partner you can’t fake it with. No applause, no direction, no costume to hide in. Just you, scratching words that might not make sense. You think maybe journaling can help you figure this out and you can skip therapy. You wonder if there really is such a thing as therapy for actors or artists.

You have spent years turning wounds into art, forgetting they are still wounds. You have sung them out, written them down, painted them, built them, acted them out. People say it is brave and moving. But when the stage goes dark, the ache is still here. The applause does not stitch it together. The story is not the same as healing.

The things that hurt most often give you your gift. If you had not carried loneliness, would you know longing? If you had not swallowed anger, would you know how to summon it on stage? Your art came from all of it, like flowers pushing through cracks in concrete. But the concrete is still here.

Expression is not the same as healing. You can bring an audience to tears but can’t remember the last time you cried for yourself. You can write a scene that makes people feel seen but struggle to let someone see you. You can paint heartbreak but go numb when it is your own. You wonder if art is the only place you allow yourself to feel.

You built a life around channeling pain into art because you did not know where else to put it. You thought creating would transform it into wholeness. Some of it has. It has given you purpose and joy. But there are parts of you art cannot reach.

When you were a kid, you learned early that what you felt was not always welcome. You were told you were too dramatic or too sensitive. Or told you were not enough. You saw the adults in your life pull away when emotions ran too high. You learned to stay small. You found another outlet. And you did. You turned it into performance, words, melody, and color. People praised you for it. They never saw that it was your safest way to speak.

The body remembers. The heart remembers. And even now, after all the performances, there are places that still ache like they did back then. Places that do not want a spotlight, only holding.

That is why you are reading this. Because you are ready to try something different. You are ready to reach out. Not to fix yourself or become less of an artist, but to explore the parts that never healed.

You do not want to lose your art. You want your life to hold that same depth. You want to know what it feels like to bring tenderness, rage, grief, and joy into the room with someone you love without fear it will drive them away.

Imagine a space where your art is not performance but process. Where you can sing, write, role play, or paint not for an audience but for healing. The same tools you use to express could finally be used to restore. That is the therapist you hope to find. Someone who understands what it means to live in the world of art and to need more than art alone to heal.

These wounds are not shadows to escape. They are threads woven into who you are. They shaped your voice and your craft but also left gaps where connection feels uncertain and safety feels fragile. The goal is not to erase them, but to tend to them.

Healing means letting someone else into the studio of your soul. Letting them see you stumble, improvise, forget lines, and start again. It means learning that you do not have to carry this alone. The parts of you once thought unlovable are the ones that need the most care.

You might freeze when it is time to call. You may tell yourself you do not need help, that you can just keep creating. But you have been doing that for years and the ache is still here. The longing is still here.

You are tired. Tired of pouring everything into roles and songs while the quieter parts of you keep waiting. Tired of telling yourself that if you just create one more piece, sing one more song, or write a little more, the healing will come.

You want something different. You want to be cared for, not just clapped for. To be seen without performing. To be held, not just heard. You want the courage you bring to your art to be the same courage you bring to your own healing.

You want someone to meet you where you are, artist and human, gifted and wounded, expressive and still aching. If you stay with it long enough, you will learn what it is like to let the healing come too.

Not just the art. The healing.

Hi, I’m Karl 

I bring more than 15 years of experience as a therapist with specialized training in trauma, attachment, Brainspotting, and EFT, and I bring lived experience.

In our work, you will not get surface-level validation or a script to follow. You will get presence and reflection. A space where your artistry and humanity are both welcome, where the same courage you bring to your craft can be turned inward, not for performance, but for healing.

You do not need to become someone else. You need a place safe enough to be fully yourself, artist and human, gifted and wounded, creating and healing. That is the space I hold, and I would be honored to walk with you in it.

Contact me for a free consultation for Therapy for Actors & Therapy for Artists

If you’re an artist who’s ready to explore the wounds beneath your work—not to erase them, but to finally tend to them—I’d be honored to walk with you.

Call me at 949-922-0734 to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. Reach out today to begin finding a space where your art and your healing can meet

Use your art to heal.