Provider directory
About the directory
The Creatives Care provider directory helps working artists find mental health clinicians who understand the realities of a creative life.
Artists experience mental health challenges specific to their line of work. In addition, artists’ sense of personal identity and mental well-being is often inextricably linked to their creativity and artistic process. As a result, many artists want to work with clinicians who understand their particular needs.
The Creatives Care Directory is a diverse group of mental health professionals who share a connection to the arts and are committed to working with artists. Every clinician in the directory has chosen to be listed here and has affirmed our community values. Each participating clinician is accepted into the Directory following review of an application and completion of an interview with the Creatives Care Membership Committee.
How a clinician gets listed
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Apply with your directory profile
Mental health clinicians create a free account and submit a profile — credentials, specialties, modalities, locations, and how you work with artists.
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Complete interview
A Creatives Care team member will review your submission and schedule a brief interview, confirming that the profile is complete and appropriate for the community.
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Activate membership
Once approved, directory members pay a flat annual fee to maintain their listing and access member benefits. Creatives Care is a non-profit organization and membership fees go directly to supporting the organization’s work.
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Maintain your profile
Members are responsible for maintaining and updating their own profile page.
Membership requirements
Membership is open to licensed mental health professionals who have a connection to the arts, professional experience working with artists, and a commitment to working with artists at affordable rates whenever possible.
Who can join
Examples of licensed mental health professionals include:
- Psychiatrists (MD)
- Psychologists (PhD or PsyD)
- Clinical Social Work Therapists (LCSW)
- Licensed Psychoanalysts (LP)
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners (NP)
- Licensed Creative Art Therapists (LCAT)
- Marriage & Family Therapists (LMFT)
- Mental Health Counselors (LMHC)
Pre-licensed clinicians, interns, and externs are welcome to apply once they have received licensure for full, unrestricted, independent practice.
What’s required
- Completion of the membership application form
- Provide a copy of your licensure/registration to practice
- Completion of an interview
- Annual membership fee ($100/year)
- Maintain your profile page
- Provide updated licensure/registration with each annual renewal
Our values
Creatives Care aims to support artists of all backgrounds and relies on a diverse and collaborative clinician community. We are committed to maintaining a culture of professionalism, respect and inclusivity focused on our primary mission of supporting artists. Behavior inconsistent with these values, such as inflammatory, discriminatory or divisive behavior, or inappropriately self-serving conduct, may be grounds for dismissal. Similarly, clinicians are asked to submit profiles that focus on their professional backgrounds, skills and practice areas, and refrain from unnecessary language concerned with signaling individually held political or social views.
Membership benefits
- A public profile on our website
- Access to a members-only listserv for peer-to-peer professional communications, including sharing information regarding patient needs and provider availability
- Access to supervision groups and webinars
- Member meetups
- Volunteer opportunities
How we keep it fair
Creatives Care does not endorse, recommend, or refer to individual providers. The directory is a participation-based registry of clinicians who have affirmed our community values.
The participation fee is required to be listed, but it never buys placement. There is no “featured,” “premium,” or “sponsored” listing — every member appears on identical terms, sorted alphabetically, or by distance when a visitor searches by office location.