About Us

The artistic community hasn't gotten the support it needs and many artists leave the industry or spend years struggling with dire financial and serious mental health issues. Our goal is to help our clients build sustainable careers by helping solve the problems related to their mental, relational and financial functioning which impede artistic work.

 

Kav Counseling operates with the implicit sense that a creative life can work. Dreams can find realization. Creative fulfillment and the fullest expression of one's art and life is possible and probable.

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Kav Counseling clinicians bring a diverse array of experience as professional musicians and artists to their therapeutic work. Our clinical approach is based on contemporary models and practices as well as the best of the past. Our comprehensive counseling also includes strong business and legal support that works in concert with therapeutic intervention.

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We work from an understanding that a strong community requires the strength and health of its individual members. Every instance of psychological and spiritual health emanates outwards and changes the industry for the better. We believe healthy culture workers and their contributions are necessary for a stable arts and music community.

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The word Kav is an Aramaic word that means a line, ray or thread. In Kabbalistic literature, it refers to the ray of light that descended at the very beginning of creation into the vacated space that would be the place of the world, the chalal panui. The vessels of creation were said to have shattered because of the intensity of this overwhelming light that had an uncontainable good. The Kav – a shaft of light - in its limitation is a way for light to be present in this world in a stable, sustainable way. 

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Limited light can be used and worked with. The artistic process often begins with an intense inspiration and vision that can be a struggle to fully realize. Disciplined effort, self management, and relational health are needed to sustain a creative lifestyle and bring projects to fruition. Beyond the challenge of the process of art, on a practical level the artistic community hasn't gotten the support it needs and many artists leave the industry or spend years struggling with dire financial and serious mental health issues. Kav Counseling strengthens our client’s ability to create by facilitating mental, financial, business, and relational health.