What Diane
Reardon brings to Creativity Coaching
Diane Reardon is an artist, a licensed psychologist, and a creativity
coach.
She specializes in helping visual artists
break through to their next creative level. Drawing on over 20 years of
expertise as a psychologist she helps people overcome obstacles to change.
She inspires artists, from beginners to professionals, to clarify their goals and move
toward them.
As a working fiber artist,
she brings a practical understanding to
creativity coaching. She knows the territory of juggling artmaking with
other life responsibilities. She believes it is up to the artist to find ways
to deepen trust in one’s inner sources of creativity. This is often difficult in the face of cultural
pressures to tune
outward to the needs of other people, the moods of the market, and the
latest "in" technique.
Following a lifelong love of fiber arts, she completed a City and
Guilds Design Certificate with Gail Harker (9/97 to 12/99). She is
personally familiar with midlife changes, multiple "jobs", and the
concerns of those that come to their art and craft later in life. Since
1999, she has been creating and learning in this medium with a passion.
She is familiar with finishing and not finishing work, getting her work
seen and not seen, and the risks and joys of the path from creative spark
to having one’s work out in the world.
As a licensed psychologist, she brings a background in research,
and in individual and group psychotherapy. She earned her doctorate at Claremont Graduate School and then spent 10
years in clinical research on the faculty at UCLA. Since 1977, she has
had a psychotherapy practice on Whidbey Island, WA., working with adults
to make changes in their lives.
As a creativity coach, she offers
 | Sensitivity to the inner sources of creativity,
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| A broad background in people-helping skills |
| Experience in navigating the difficulties of
decision making and stress management |
| A solid grounding in the importance of
confidentiality when supporting others |
| Up to date psychological research on creativity, decision making,
and peak performance translated into practical applications for visual
artists |
| Assessment tools to identify individual artist’s
values, strengths, and working styles |
| Experience helping each client build a unique repertoire of skills
for managing inner and outer critics and inner and outer distractions. |
