Brent Maguire, PhD
Yes, It's Called "Writers on the Couch."But this isn't therapy. It's coaching for writers who've tried everything except figuring out why nothing worked.
Who This Is For
You've rewritten the same opening line more times than you'd admit in public.
You finished something once, sent it out, got a "no," and haven't opened a new document since.
You call it procrastination, but "researching" for two hours doesn't feel lazy — it feels like avoiding something.
Somebody once said something about your writing that you never quite got over.
Ringing any bells? Keep going!
What You GetNot writing advice — plenty of people already do that better than I do.What I do is help you figure out what's actually stopping you, and get you unstuck. Fear of failure, perfectionism, impostor stuff, the freeze that looks like laziness from the outside but doesn't feel like laziness from in here — that's my lane.
How it works
1. You complete an assessment. This helps us to understand your current needs and map your specific patterns before we ever sit down.
2. We talk. Real conversation about what the assessment turned up, no fake friendliness.
3. We work it. One-on-one, weekly or so, until you're writing again.
No set program length. No pressure to sign up before you know if this helps.
ABOUT MEI've spent over four decades as a clinical psychologist, working with people who wanted to change something in their lives.I've spent years talking with writers at conferences, too — leading discussions and presenting workshops on the psychological and behavioral issues that show up in writing. I write myself, so I know what it's like to sit down and face the blank page.Turns out writers, like everybody, build habits that keep a problem going instead of solving it — and there's no single fix, because what works has to fit the person. "Just sit down and write" doesn't touch it.It's not therapy. It's coaching with some serious clinical horsepower behind it.
Get in Touch
Tell me what's going on.
I write back myself — no funnel, no assistant, no 12-part email sequence.
