These Trees Grow offers coaching and counseling services to artists and creatives of all disciplines from middle school through their twenties in order to help them gain clarity, purpose, and direction in their creative lives.
Life as an artist is both deeply rewarding and challenging. Together, we’ll make sense of it all, with empathy, lots of humor, and compassion. Whether you’re a high schooler trying to make sense of your creative identity and what artistic careers are possible, a recent college graduate dealing with the reality of making a living as an artist, or a concerned parent looking for answers about your creative child’s artistic ambitions, These Trees Grow is here to support you.
Together, we will:
Clarify artistic goals and dreams and make concrete plans to achieve them
Explore the artistic careers that are possible for your interests, including ones you haven’t thought of
Help jack-of-all-trades creatives who lack clarity about their options see real career possibilities
Assuage concerns over the marketability of artistic backgrounds and degrees
Think holistically about what life as an artist can and should be, including self care techniques
Learn the things you didn’t know you didn’t know about being an artist
Connect to artists and professionals with specialized knowledge
Get broad-based support through your artistic college application process
Examine and audit non-artistic interests, whether for college or for future plans
Get professional coaching for artistic prerequisites, including music theory and ear training
Polish and critique your CV and application portfolio for undergraduate and graduate programs
Get help with all things fundraising, including crowd funding, fiscal sponsorship, and applying to grants
Conquer creative blocks and move forward with your projects
Find your artistic community, or strengthen the one you already have
Discern together what drives you creatively and then find the motivation to do more of that
Do an empowering self-critique of your current craft and presentation
Explore impostor syndrome and how it inhibits all of us
Handle the inevitable rejection that goes along with artistic life
Help work out problems with collaborators, ideally before they happen
Be the knowledgable sounding board that parents need for their artistic youngster