When your creativity underpins your sense of self, your understanding of the world and your reputation (and income), a block or a life obstacle can feel like a full-scale, operational shutdown. When, as an artist, you have a public profile or you’re seasoned creative with high expectations of delivery, it can feel like there is no one to offload to.
Having a confidential, informed space to explore what’s going on is invaluable — somewhere you can unpack the pressure, gain fresh perspective on your process, and reconnect with the themes, conditions and headspace that powers your work. I understand patterns of creative practice and what cultivates them. I help creators streamline their working habits, manage modern-day noise, unlock inspiration, and break through even the most persistent of dry periods. With a blend of insight, support, and sector understanding, I partner with you to elevate your craft and make the very best of your distinctive talent. I also work with those moving their creative skills to a professional level – whether that is for an income or just so that is where your creative craft operates – I can support you to work out where to take your creative career.
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WHAT I CAN HELP WITH
- Balancing inspiration and creative output.
- Creative blocks.
- Burnout caused by isolation, overwork, or perfectionism.
- Emotional fatigue from rejection or slow recognition of work.
- Challenge of sustaining originality.
- Need for structured support, mindset tools, and future-focused strategy to turn talent into practice.
- Support to move work to the next level.
As someone who has loved creative writing throughout my life, I lacked confidence in taking the next (giant, for me!) step towards sharing with a wider audience. I always felt I wasn’t good enough and this, as a result of my coaching with Jess is no longer the case. I ended up with a structure to work to for my book, plans to submit work and I have made huge steps towards spoken word events and most of all the belief I am a writer – the experience was brilliant and enlightening. Jess is a fantastic coach who understands the creative brain, she has a calm, intuitive coaching style that is both supportive and gently challenging. I always leave out sessions with greater clarity and confidence in my direction.
SAM – WRITER, DErbyshire
6 x 1 hour Coaching Sessions.
A simple, 6 session course which is designed to open your creative thinking and help you prioritise. Perfect for those who have never tried coaching or who just need a little extra help. These are delivered over roughy twelve weeks and support you to dig into what you need to do as a creative to develop your ideas and unpack limiting beliefs about your work.
What you’ll get —
- 1 hour in person Introductory session.
- 1 Hour post coaching reflection session.
- 6 x 1hr coaching sessions
100% of our clients said that Damson Coaching understood their creative needs and that coaching itself had exceeded their expectations.
6 Week Support Package
This an online only, quick burst of support for when you need a quick fix. Perhaps you’ve been managing a deadline which has become waylaid or you need to get back on track in the middle of a big task. It could be you are preparing for a big project or would like to move something on quickly. This is a concentrated period of coaching to move you through a challenging period, restart your momentum or get your work finished.
What you’ll get —
- 2 hour in person Introductory session.
- 2 Hour post coaching reflection session.
- 6 x 30 minute – set the week calls
- 3 x 1hr coaching sessions
- x 6 emails/ WhatsApp/ texts/ voice notes a week.
100% of our clients said that coaching with Damson supported them to change their mindset and behaviours.
13 Week Support Package
Perhaps you want to explore your way of working or feel some support would be helpful to give you a kickstart for a new project. If you are looking for a change in the way you view your creative process or to shift the way you practice, this is the perfect package. Enough to enact change and support your to achieve your goals.
This is is designed to give you the space to reflect on your goals, focus on them and shift procrastination to allow you to move into a more productive and confident space.
What you’ll get —
- 2 hour Introductory session – I come to you.*
- 2 hour reflect and reset session – I come to you.*
- 2 Hour post coaching reflection session – I come to you.*
- 13 x 30 minute – set the week calls
- 6 x 1hr coaching sessions
- x 10 emails/ texts/voice notes a week
- 3 month post coaching reflect and reset session
*Please see travel policy
100% of clients said they felt coaching had changed how they worked.
26 Week Support Package
This is the package designed to give you support for just over six months. It is designed to igniting creative flow, strengthen a professional discipline, and build the confidence needed to thrive in a competitive landscape. Through our intensive work together, we’ll turn instinct into action, align creative identity and ethos with practical delivery, and use psychological insight to deepen resilience and sharpen creative decision-making. Our weekly sessions act as a high-value checkpoint for focusing goals, expanding capability, refining craft, and accelerating the momentum behind your body of work while the coaching sessions help you challenge assumptions and This is a partnership designed to amplify your creative voice, future-proof your practice, and empower you to operate with purpose, pace, and impact.
What you’ll get —
- 2 hour Introductory session – I come to you.*
- X 4 – 2 hour reflect and reset sessions – I come to you.*
- 2 Hour post coaching reflection session – I come to you*.
- 26 x 30 minute – set the week calls
- 11 x 1hr coaching sessions
- x 15 emails/ texts/voice notes a week.
- 2 x 2 hour follow up reflect and reset sessions 3 and 6 months post coaching.
* Please see travel policy
“My creative life had started to become a very expensive hobby. I had ideas about possible changes but needed to explore them. Jess was brilliant at listening, allowing me time and space to explore ideas and reach practical solutions which I would not have reached without her. Thanks to Jess’s coaching style, I recognised being forthright and valuing myself is not a barrier to more work. I am no longer booking or saying yes to unpaid events – respecting my craft; confidently making my work pay. Jess is a fantastic, non-judgemental listener. She has great skill at picking out little things about my way of thinking. This allowed me to see principles that have actively worked against me, holding me back. It has helped show me that how I operate does not have to be set in stone and should be something that evolves over time, allowing me to let go, develop who I am and recognise how changes will give me a better chance of achieving what I want. If you have the experience I had, you will be in a strong position by the end to make the desired changes.
MARK, ARTIST, NORTH-WEST ENGLAND.