Season 1, Episode 10

Today’s Guest: Hallie Lincoln, LCSW, MFT, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist based in Denver, CO, and is a Co-Founder of Backline. Hallie is a clinician who uses a strengths-based, friendly, and inclusive approach to provide individual, couple, and family therapy to clients of all ages and from all walks of life. Before redirecting her efforts toward private practice, Hallie worked at various non-profits and has extensive experience with case management and client care coordination. Hallie has been exposed to the unique challenges and stressors faced by those in the music industry, first by way of her brother, who is a touring music industry professional. She also serves as the Director of Backline’s Case Management program and treats clients from the music industry in her private practice.

SHOW TOPICS

• Curating a platform to help connect music industry professionals to therapists and mental health resources
• How the pandemic served as a time of reflection and evaluation about lifestyle demands
• How the lifestyles of musicians and music industry professionals differ, and how to meet their therapeutic needs based on those differences​

Season 1, Episode 8

Today’s guest: Ann Taylor McNiece is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Southern California. She comes from a family of creatives and loves using out-of-the-box methods to help people with different kinds of minds find success and healing. Ann hosts the Soul Grit Podcast, which covers faith and mental health. She is an extrovert who loves tacos and the beach.

SHOW TOPICS

• Finding new modes of expression as we become busy adults
• How the artist’s brain functions differently 
• Adapting common therapeutic methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for creative clients (with a demonstration of how it works!)
• The 4 C’s of where we want to be 
• Discussing the advantages of having a creative background when working with creative clients​

Season 1, Episode 6

​Today’s guest: Laura Kay is an award-winning operatic soprano and voice teacher based in New York City. She’s been seen on stages across the country in operas like Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” and Verdi’s “La Traviata,” but her true love is modern American opera. She collaborates regularly with some of the most exciting composers in the U.S. to develop new works for the operatic and recital stages. As a recitalist, she’s known for her series introducing new compositions to audiences in unique ways, comparing them to mainstream works of stage and screen. As a teacher, she’s worked with students ranging from the seasoned professional to the first-time singer, and she holds positions on the faculties of NYU and Temple University. Her students have performed on Broadway, been featured on TV series, and have placed in competitions around the world. She holds degrees from Penn State University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and NYU in operatic performance and vocal pedagogy. She also is currently pursuing her PhD in voice performance and pedagogy at NYU, where she’s focusing on teaching the whole student — bringing psychology into the voice studio.

SHOW TOPICS

• What does it look like to bring psychology into the voice studio?
• The interconnectedness of the physical body and mental health, and how this can especially impact vocalists
• How do our subconscious fears and worries impact our performances and art-making?
• How to face panic and mistakes in a constructive way​

Season 1, Episode 1

Today's Guest: Brian Zirngible, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with a solo private practice in Burnsville, Minnesota. He is an actively working musician and performer based in the Twin Cities. His passion and specialty is helping other musicians and creative artists live more authentic and balanced lives. Brian's focus is on self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and turning pain into possibility. Clients find it helpful that he understands and is currently living with some of the unique challenges within the entertainment industry. Colleague Ernesto Segismundo Jr., LMFT, says this about Brian: "He is, in my opinion, a blend between David Bowie and the modern-day psychoanalyst."
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SHOW TOPICS

• Welcome to the first full episode of Beyond Artist’s Block!
• How a teacher helped Brian overcome his frustration by saying: "You’re not quitting. We’re just starting over"
• What to do when clients attend a therapist’s performance
• Brian talks about his path to becoming a therapist and how he focused on working with artists and highly sensitive men
• Rachel discusses why "being in the audience" is an important part of creativity
• Brian and Rachel talk about boundaries and how to manage expectations as a performer and a therapist, as well as how the idea of boundaries may mean different things to different cultures
• Rachel recalls a time she paid dueling pianists to stop playing a song — it didn't go over as well as she'd hoped
• Brian offers this final advice to listeners: Be kind to yourself, especially now