Alison Manning
I'm a psychologist, providing phone and video-conference consultations to writers throughout Australia and internationally.
Topics that often come up include:
I help writers develop and maintain emotional well-being, find satisfaction in their work, acceptance of their own writing approach, and develop capacity to communicate their writing needs to friends, family and others so that they have the time and space to work freely.
A Mind of One's Own complements my other practice, Alison Manning Psychology. Along with psychology I've studied communication, English literature, and environmental management.
All conversations are stricly confidential.
I'm a psychologist, providing phone and video-conference consultations to writers throughout Australia and internationally.
Topics that often come up include:
- concerns about the publication process
- self-confidence
- anxiety, depression and stress
- writer guilt
- "toxic triangle' = if I write there's no money; if I do paid work there's no writing; and when I do write I'm isolated, depressed and / or anxious
- effects of isolation
- fear of failure and success
- procrastination
- being stuck
- reviewer dread
- self-criticism
- writer identity
- public speaking and media 'performance'
- peer envy
- and also, the state I term Fragmentia.
I help writers develop and maintain emotional well-being, find satisfaction in their work, acceptance of their own writing approach, and develop capacity to communicate their writing needs to friends, family and others so that they have the time and space to work freely.
A Mind of One's Own complements my other practice, Alison Manning Psychology. Along with psychology I've studied communication, English literature, and environmental management.
All conversations are stricly confidential.
