{"id":562,"date":"2017-04-26T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/?p=562"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T21:16:56","slug":"touring-is-hard-and-band-therapists-are-here-to-help-vice-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/voice\/touring-is-hard-and-band-therapists-are-here-to-help-vice-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring Is Hard and Band Therapists Are Here to Help &#8211; VICE Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_564\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM-580x265.png 580w, https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM-768x351.png 768w, https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM-1536x703.png 1536w, https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-13-at-5.24.56-PM.png 1548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These mental health professionals know what it feels like when the van breaks down, when the booker shorts the fee, or when your drummer is just being a dick.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am proud of the work I do with artists, musicians and bands and how I\u2019ve been able to blend my previous career as a music industry executive with my current career as a psychotherapist.<br \/>\nLife on the road takes a huge toll on artists and musicians not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. Although rewarding in some respects, touring can be a tough life.<br \/>\nLuke Winkie from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/3a8n98\/meet-band-therapists-the-pros-musicians-turn-to-when-their-mental-health-is-suffering?fbclid=IwAR23sJ5Tp8LwXZ1eK8bnXLonDpJY8z2zuraf5UMlYZDCJg687JEBf2a7uco\">VICE <\/a>interviewed me as well as a colleague of mine, <a href=\"https:\/\/embletonpsychotherapy.com\/about\/\">Tamsin Embleton<\/a>, for the article bel<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ow about touring musicians and therapists who work with musicians and bands. Tamsin started an incredible organization called <a href=\"http:\/\/musicindustrytherapists.com\/what-we-do\/\">The Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC)<\/a>. We are a very specialized group of therapists and coaches who were all previously in the music industry.<br \/>\nMore awareness and accessible resources are needed for musicians, artists, and bands in order to provide essential mental health and substance abuse support. We are collectively working to make that happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"background-details\">Click this link to read the VICE Article:\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/3a8n98\/meet-band-therapists-the-pros-musicians-turn-to-when-their-mental-health-is-suffering?fbclid=IwAR23sJ5Tp8LwXZ1eK8bnXLonDpJY8z2zuraf5UMlYZDCJg687JEBf2a7uco\">Touring Is Hard, and Band Therapists Are Here to Help<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click here to learn how RockStar Therapy helps musicians and bands: <a href=\"http:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/musician-and-artist-support\/\">RockStar Therapy Artist Support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am proud of the work I do with artists, musicians and bands and how I\u2019ve been able to blend my previous career as a music industry executive with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,7,22,47,55,8,53,54,31,5],"tags":[17,33,14,35,21,48,56,34,18,52,30,58,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockstartherapy.com\/Entertainment-Industry-Therapist-and-Counselor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}