Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/12 - 09/16
5:00pm - 6:15pm
The Creative Minds group is a processing/therapy group that meets once a week for six weeks, with new groups beginning regularly. Meetings held on zoom.
This group is designed for artists or creatives looking for focus and support. This ranges from accountability on a certain project to more authentic self-expression in the workplace. We use parts work to deepen self-exploration.
“Parts work” is a type of therapy that helps identify and articulate various voices or selves inside, appreciating our natural contradictions. How does the “artist” in you relate to the “pleaser,” for instance? How does the “eccentric” relate to the “practical self”? Parts work encourages acceptance of our various selves.
Goals of the group:
-Familiarity with parts work, including increased freedom between various internal voices.
-Accountability and support for creative projects.
-Education about and work with the Enneagram.
-A closer look at who we are and how we act in groups.
Groups run for 6 sessions of 75 minutes each and cost $85/session. Your insurance can potentially cover group. I take Aetna, Blue Cross, Anthem, Beacon, Kaiser, MHN, Cigna, LaCare, Medical, and a few others.
Please feel free to reach me at ilana.simons@gmail.com to ask any questions you might have.
Ilana Simons
https://www.ilanasimons.com/creativity-group
Bio:
Ilana Simons is a psychologist who has worked in private practice for 11 years, in New York City, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe. She trained at New York University and The New School, where she earned PhDs in literature (2003) and psychology (2011). She works primarily with artists, and in fostering sustainable, creative career paths. She has taught literature, psychology, and video at New York University, The New School, the 92nd St Y, and the School for Making Thinking. Her short films have screened at The Cannes Film Festival, Hyperallergic.com, Poets & Writers website, Animation Block Party, and in Alain de Botton’s School of Life series. She writes a blog for Psychology Today and is the author of A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf (Penguin).
