Creative environments demand emotional vulnerability, long hours, and high performance under pressure.

Without intentional support, artists and crews can move into survival states—impacting wellbeing, creativity, and the overall production.

When people are safe & feel safe, they create better work.

Trauma-informed Care is KEY

Mental Health Coordination and Support is particularly vital in the  “relationship intense professions and industries” like the entertainment industry, healthcare, social services etc. 

A Mental Health Coordinator ensures that your production is not only artistically strong, but also psychologically sustainable.

INFO SHEET Mental Health Coordination Here

Why This Matters Now

There is a growing recognition across the arts and entertainment industry: the way we work needs to evolve.

People are no longer willing to accept burnout, emotional harm, or unsafe dynamics as “part of the job.” Productions that prioritize mental health are not only supporting their teams—they are helping shape a more sustainable future for the industry.  Psychological safety is not a luxury—it is a necessity.

The Bottom Line

When people feel supported, they do better work.
When they feel safe, they take creative risks.
When care is built into the process, the entire production benefits.

This isn’t about limiting art—
it’s about creating the conditions for it to thrive.

Productions that invest in mental health support:

• Experience stronger retention and morale
• Reduce conflict and crisis-related delays
• Lower the likelihood of HR and legal escalation
• Build reputations as ethical, forward-thinking workplaces

FOR PRODUCTIONS:

Consultations available for Production: Producer, Directors & production team to support practical tools for Mental wellness & positive workplace culture including accessible, impactful tools to use for pre-production, rehearsal & production.

 

Mental Wellness & Resilience Workshops/Webinars available: 

• Holding it All- Resilience tools for team- live events

• Psychological Safety & Mental Wellness in Creative Industries

• Take 5! For Actor Wellbeing (Set Protect) 

• Cue Your Mental Wellness- Tools for Theatre

• Cultivating Safer Spaces (Cultivating Safe Spaces Certified Facilitator Level I)

• Employee Mental Wellness & Resilience Series (Lunch & Learn)

• Mental Wellbeing & Psychological Safety on Set

• CJ for Self Care & CJ: Self Care for Helping Professionals (CACCF Approved)

FOR INDIVIDUALS:

My counseling/ coaching approach is strength based, forward focused approach and featured in the book, The Coach’s Guide to Completing Creative Work (Routledge Publishing, 2023) and is called the “Cycle of Creative Care”. This cycle is a customized action plan, a 3 phase cycle that is specially designed to move at the rhythmn, care and comfort for your personal, artistic or production goals.

This plan includes new tools, strategies to prevent stress, burn-out and current resources to support healing, productivity and longevity.

 RECENT CLIENTS

  Youtube Video Testimonial here  

” Nicolle was one of my early mentors and coaches when I was a young teen and just starting my film and television journey. She taught me how to protect my artistic energy. I felt that I was so bombarded by intense rules of the business and how to look and how to break into it that I often thought of the art form as secondary, but I loved that Nicolle kept the focus on creative expression. That still guides me today and I am grateful to have encountered her compassionate approach early on in my career.” Jacki Gunn, Actor, Comedian, Writer

” I wanted to thank you for the Take 5 workshop you facilitated through UBCP. Over the last month I’ve been going through the end of my engagement with someone who employed emotionally abusive tactics that left me questioning my identity and my worth.The sessions were so incredibly helpful and supportive, and I’m so thankful to have had that community, encouragement and those tools while I was navigating a heartbreaking situation. I’m doing better now and I’ve been using a lot of what you shared to care for myself.Thank you for the work you do. It’s so vital and important”  Participant, Take 5! for Actor Wellbeing Webinar, UBCP/ACTRA & Set Protect