Most People Who Come To Me Have Stopped Trusting Themselves.
They second-guess their instincts. They defer to external measures of worth — the credit, the approval, the room that validates them — because somewhere along the way they stopped believing that what they actually think, feel, and want is enough of a guide. So they perform. In the work and in the life. And the performance is exhausting because it’s never quite right and it’s never quite finished.
That didn’t come from nowhere. It came from something they learned, something they absorbed so early it feels like just how they are.
I work with writers, directors, actors, and creative practitioners who are ready to look at that honestly.
Emma Beech
Actor and Performer
“Our focus is on being and doing and breathing and relationship with text all at the same time.
“You give so much calm to the process, so much acceptance, that I feel completely comfortable to let those impulses out.
“And it is getting to know that impulse again, that has been squashed with years of forceful direction and fear, the impulse that stirs in my gut and comes out of my body in the way it needs and wants to.”
Ruth Natalie Fallon
Actor, Martial Artist, Fight/Intimacy Choreographer
“Working with Craig has up-levelled my practice in the best way possible. I started my work with Craig not 100% sure what I was trying to achieve, but I knew something in my auditions, and my craft, had become stale and untruthful.
“Craig found this perfect balance of guiding me back to myself, and my process, and while also working on the technicalities of building a scene that is layered and interesting.
“He is a rare breed with his years of experience and training, coupled with talent and instincts. This means his sessions are tailor-made for you as an individual. Craig will help you grow and develop in ways that feed so much positivity and self trust into your work.”
Work With Me.
Most of the people I work with come in carrying a story about what’s wrong with them. That story made sense once — it was protective, useful, maybe necessary. But over time it started to feel like the truth in ways that are hurting rather than helping.
We look at what’s actually happening — in real time, in the room. Not as a problem. As an experience, as feedback, as a message.
This helps you have a relationship to what’s happening. You see that you have these experiences and it is not the sum of who you are.
If you don’t like the experience, that’s already giving you feedback about what you do want — which leads to what you value, and how you want to bring that into the world.
And so we discover that the most important thing is where you are coming from — in your personal, creative, and professional life, and in your choices — rather than the external chase for something shiny that you’ve been told makes you valuable