Performance Psychology for High-Achieving Creatives

High-level creative work involves persistent visibility, complex decision-making, and continual originality. Many of the people I work with lead teams, carry public work, and bring ideas into markets and culture at scale. When the creative process is overextended, success becomes physically and psychologically unsustainable.

Burnout, creative fatigue, stalled projects, or reduced access to your creative genius are not deficits of talent or ambition. They indicate that the creative process requires recalibration and support.

Mastering the Creative Process

Traditional performance psychology often focuses on practice and product—habits, discipline, metrics, output. The most powerful leverage point exists earlier: process.

Process includes:

• Nervous-system capacity in conditions of pressure

• Attentional style and cognitive load

• The function of perfectionism and precision

• Identity in relation to public work

• The lived foundation of a creative life

When process is stabilized and understood, established methods, exercises, and research-based tools become consistently effective, even in high-stakes environments.

The Work

This work engages high-achieving creatives who value rigor, stamina, and continuity in their practice. The emphasis is on:

• Sustained creative capacity

• Dependable momentum

• Precision without depletion

• Endurance in environments of visibility and responsibility

The outcome is a repeatable, individualized creative process capable of supporting ambitious work over time.

What You Gain

• A sustainable creative process that reduces burnout risk

• Increased capacity as projects, teams, and stakes grow

• A clear framework for your personal creative process

• Confident decision-making without chronic overwork

• Work that remains strong without being punishing to produce

• Reuniting with the joy of being a powerhouse creative

This is performance psychology oriented toward durable change.

Orientation

This is not productivity or motivational coaching. The work is clinically informed and centered on the realities of high-level creative performance.

The practice integrates:

• Performance psychology

• Creativity research

• Nervous-system regulation

• Meditation and energy work applied in grounded, precise ways

Ambition, intensity, pace, and high standards are treated as essential attributes of your work, not pathologies.

About Lisa

I bring more than 25 years of experience with creatives as a licensed psychotherapist, fine artist, founder, and author. My work combines clinical practice with ongoing study in performance psychology and creativity research, with a focus on creative professionals whose work reaches wide audiences.

Who This Work Serves

• Design and creative executives. Work at IDEO? You’ve got a home here.

• Founders and creative entrepreneurs

• Artists, musicians, actors, and writers whose work reaches large audiences

• Leaders in innovation-driven organizations

Across fields, clients share a commitment to serious creative work and the wish to sustain it with clarity, stamina, and depth.

Format

• Six-month minimum engagement

• Weekly meetings, with the option to move to biweekly

• 60-minute individual sessions conducted virtually

• Executive retainers available

• Customized team work available on request

Consultation

This work is intended for individuals engaged in ambitious creative lives who wish to refine process, preserve capacity, and maintain strong work over time.

Discovery calls are available by appointment below.