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Counseling For Creative People

Counseling for Creative People is a private therapy practice based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.

Currently I am providing online therapy to clients.

07/05/2025

This series of posts explores healing through creative work.

How do people heal through creative expression? Many approaches and examples highlight art as an integral part to one’s healing journey.

Bessel van der Kolk’s work, a leading expert on trauma, emphasizes that healing from trauma involves making it safe for individuals to inhabit their bodies, tolerate their feelings, and accept their experiences.

Part of the healing power of therapy is that we organize our experiences in a coherent way. We can make meaning through storytelling, writing, picturemaking, and poetry. All of those creative expressions can act as a structure for meaning making. The practice of these and other creative modalities can help someone access resilience and peace by way of processing and building tolerance around feelings and sensations.

02/05/2025

How do people heal through creative expression? Many approaches and examples highlight art as an integral part to one’s healing journey. As a therapist and creative person, I am inspired by humans’ impulse to create and make meaning of their experiences. This series of posts will concentrate on how healing intersects with creative expression.

One piece of the puzzle is the world of sensorimotor art therapy. What is it? Sensorimotor art therapy is a “bottom-up” or body-centered approach to art therapy. It focuses on helping individuals become more aware and work through physical sensations, emotions and experiences by engaging in artmaking that is often tactile oriented. This can look like working with materials like clay, finger painting or fiber arts.

13/01/2025

Hello, in response to the unprecedented fire events, I have immediate openings for therapy. Sliding scale and insurance is accepted. I accept the following insurances: Aetna California, Carelon California, Cigna California, Anthem Medi-Cal and Kaiser Permanente Southern California.

Please email me with any questions: michael@counselingforcreativepeople.com

23/10/2024

What makes people happy? And what makes artists and creatives happy? Strong social connections, meaningful work and physical health I explored these topics on the CCP blog this week

14/08/2024

As I spend more and more time doing therapeutic work with clients, I’ve learned how important it is to develop a sense of acceptance and compassion for the different parts of ourselves. Self-compassion helps us find more inner harmony. This week, I explored some creative writing prompts that are an entry point to exploring self-compassion. Visit the website for more.

24/07/2024

Hello! This week I wrote about boredom - a little bit of etymology and thoughts regarding working with it.

The article is posted on my website.

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5619 North Figueroa Street
NJ
90042

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http://www.counselingforcreativepeople.com/

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About CCP

Counseling for Creative People is a private therapy practice based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California. My name is Michael G. Bauer and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Art Therapist, artist, and founder of Counseling for Creative People. Counseling for Creative People helps people improve their lives through creative therapeutic action. I work to provide quality, well-informed care, and do it in a way that advances creative expression.

We encounter many challenges during the course of our lives. Whether it be difficulties in family, peer, or romantic relationships, isolation in a new city, or a shift into a new life phase, we can work together to find a greater sense of resolve. If it is a professional impasse, or grieving the loss of someone or something, suffering from depression, anxiety, or experiencing obsessive-compulsive thoughts and rituals, our time together will be both explorative and grounded in ways that help you apply the tools you need to move through difficult times.