Performer’s Support Group

“In order for all of us to experience the full breadth of team human, we have to communicate. Talking about how you’re feeling is the first step to helping yourself.” — Kristen Bell

The performance arts are mentally challenging. Performers are constantly putting themselves out in front of others to be judged and compared. Their work requires continual stretching, changing, and putting on new personas. This can lead to discouragement and fatigue at disappointing outcomes. It can lead to a challenged sense of identity and self-worth. It can contribute to significant anxiety, perfectionism, and emotional distress. It can impact relationships and functioning in other areas of life. Because of the sometimes competitive nature of the work, it’s easy to feel like everybody else has it figured out and you are the only one struggling.

You are not alone.

Connect with other performers

Sometimes it’s helpful just knowing you aren’t the only one who is experiencing this. This group will also be an opportunity to learn strategies for dealing with some of these issues including:

  • performance/audition fatigue

  • anxiety, which may be related to identity, performing, auditioning, finances, relationships, etc.

  • comparison and perfectionism

  • relationship struggles

  • time and resource management

  • body image and self-esteem

The group is facilitated by a licensed therapist

Group Information

  • Performers at all levels who want to take an opportunity to connect with others and focus on their mental fitness and emotional health

  • Groups will be one hour per week for an open-ended duration, with a recommended commitment of at least 2 months.

  • A new group will begin when we have at least 5 interested participants. There are several available time slots during the day Tuesday through Thursday, and you can indicate which times you are available on the signup form.

  • Groups will take place through a secure video link that participants will receive. Participants should plan to be somewhere private during the sessions.

  • Groups cost $25 per session, paid monthly.

““When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.””

— Fred Rogers