Musicians and Artists
Therapy for musicians, artists, and creative professionals. Performance anxiety, creative identity, and the psychological weight of making work. In-person in Northbrook and online across Illinois.
Therapy for musicians and artists in Northbrook, IL
Bedrock Psychology Group offers therapy for musicians, artists, and creative professionals dealing with performance anxiety, creative identity, and career pressure. Three of our clinicians are working musicians. Sessions are in person at our Northbrook office or by telehealth across Illinois, and in PSYPACT states with select clinicians. We're in-network with BCBS PPO and Aetna. To start, call (773) 389-2352 or send us a message.
Who this is for
Musicians, visual artists, writers, performers, and creative professionals dealing with the specific psychological challenges that come with a creative life. Performance anxiety. The gap between your taste and your current output. Identity confusion when the work isn't going well. The particular exhaustion of making your living from something that also defines who you are. The mental health consequences of an industry that is genuinely difficult — unstable, high-rejection, identity-consuming.
This service is also for people who don't work full-time as creatives but for whom creative work is central to their identity — the weekend musician who takes their music seriously, the visual artist who has a day job and a practice.
Why this practice
Dr. Paul Losoff played guitar professionally before becoming a psychologist. Ted Ribbens was a professional musician and commercial pilot before graduate school. Blake Zweig is a singer-songwriter. Three of our six clinicians are working musicians — not former hobbyists, working musicians. They understand the particular psychology of a creative life from the inside, which produces a different quality of clinical engagement than reading about it.
The Bedrock name itself comes from a particular relationship to what's underneath — the stable ground beneath the performance, the persona, the output. That orientation is relevant everywhere in the practice, but it's especially relevant here.
How we work
Therapy for musicians and artists at Bedrock draws on the same evidence-based approaches used across the practice — CBT, psychodynamic, humanistic — applied to the specific challenges of creative work and creative identity. Performance anxiety, imposter syndrome, the psychological dynamics of creative block, the identity disruption that comes from career transitions — all of these are addressable. The work doesn't require you to choose between your mental health and your creative life. It's typically the opposite.
Meet our therapists
What happens when you reach out
Schedule a free consultation
A quick call or email so we can hear what’s going on and answer your questions. Then we’ll match you with the therapist who fits best. No cost, no commitment.
Schedule directly with your therapist
From there, your therapist reaches out personally to get you set up on our client portal and book your first session. Going forward, you’ll work directly with your therapist, not a call center or front desk.
Begin treatment
Start working with your therapist, in person in Northbrook or online. The first few sessions are for getting to know each other and understanding what you want to work on.
You've been thinking about this long enough
Tell us a little about what's going on. We usually reply within a few hours, and always within one business day.
