I help people get their creative juices flowing -- to envision new possibilities and thrive.
I specialize in working with artists, writers, designers & beleaguered executives to unleash and revitalize creative energy.
HOW I WORK . . .
My professional experience spans the fields of clinical psychology, creative and meditative arts (Mindfulness meditation), the Hollywood film industry, anthropology, impact marketing, and journalism. I blend modalities from each of these fields to help individuals release a sticky grip on artistic, personal or work-related problems -- so creative energy can begin to move again. My techniques break apart habituated thinking, illuminate untapped, innate potential, and catalyze change. My clients consider me a quiet authority with a mission to help people thrive. I work under stringent confidentiality.
Tracy Masington, M.A. is professionally trained in Post-Modern psychotherapy, Mindfulness meditation, Contemplative counseling, Transformational Arts & Art Therapy, public relations, marketing, writing, editing, and ceremony. Her background spans the fields of psychology, anthropology, the Hollywood motion picture industry, creative arts, and journalism. She utilizes modalities from each of these arenas to help clients catalyze creativity, illuminate innate talent, and map change – in work, artistic endeavors and personal challenges.
She specializes in working with artists, writers, designers, and beleaguered executives to unleash and revitalize creativity.
Her work is individually customized and strictly confidential.
As a counselor, Tracy holds a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology and favors Post-Modern counseling approaches which support creative, future-oriented thinking. Her work as a non-sectarian pastoral counselor serves those who wish spirituality to lead their course of change. And as a creativity catalyst, she helps clients break apart habituated thinking, illuminate untapped potential and catalyze change.
As a meditation facilitator and coach, Tracy is experienced in teaching and utilizing meditation for creative breakthroughs, personal growth, and chronic pain management. She publishes the ENCOURAGING WORDS meditation newsletter, providing guidance and encouragement to those new to meditation practice.
Tracy is an illustrator, writer and mixed-media artist who values and uses the Arts for personal and community transformation.
As a ceremonialist, Tracy spent 15+ years writing and performing custom ceremonies for life milestones and passages, including weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, retirement, memorials, and underserved life transitions: medical diagnoses, divorce, pet loss, empty-nest transitioning, and New Year's eve celebrations designed to truly usher in new goals (and not simply a hangover). Today, Tracy continues to design and write custom ceremonies for others to perform, and she assists couples in writing personal, marriage-sustaining wedding vows. It is her belief that "How we set in motion the things to come, may determine what becomes of those things -- and ultimately, what becomes of our lives." Tracy is a contributing author of Weddings, Funerals and Rites of Passage: sample ceremonies for Celebrants, Officiants and Ministers.
Ms. Masington is a former motion picture PR and marketing executive for Universal Pictures, Dino De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and Morgan Creek Productions at Warner Bros. Studios. Among the many publicity campaigns she served were Steven Spielbergs’ Academy Award winner “Schindler’s List” and "Jurrassic Park," Spike Lee’s breakthrough film “Do The Right Thing,” the Kevin Costner classic “Field of Dreams,” Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July," David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," "Back to the Future, Parts II & III," "Parenthood," "Kindergarten Cop," "Cape Fear" starring Robert DeNiro, "In The Name of the Father" starring Daniel Day Lewis, and "Fried Green Tomatoes." Tracy also worked in television publicity handling PR for King World, Paramount Television, and Samuel Goldwyn Television -- which, collectively, included the top-rated syndicated shows "Oprah," "Entertainment Tonight," and "Jeopardy."
catalyzing creativity and change, helping people find their muse, using art and ceremony to transform lives, clean water activism, David Whyte's poetry, Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of Introverts, Japanese aesthetics, the wisdom in nature and stillness, and addressing unjust incarceration of human beings & animals. I'm interested in: just about everything.