Social media is so much part of our everyday lives. For artists and creators, social media can feel essential for promoting your work, building or presenting your artistic ‘identity’, staying up to date with collaborators, jobs, labels, promoters, agents,...
Are you a musician aged 18 or over? Do you use, or have you used beta-blockers for performance anxiety? Would you like to take part in a research project and receive a £10 Amazon voucher? Researchers at University College London (UCL) are recruiting...
Serena Paese is a PhD student at the University of York conducting research on the use of meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety. Serena is recruiting participants for a study on the effects of meditation on music performance and music...
Our guest blog is from yoga teacher and flautist Veronika Klirova who joins our Community Drop In on 1 February teaching Musicians’ Yoga to Manage Anxiety. Nearly eight years ago, I started a new job at one of the symphony orchestras in the UK. I was fresh out of...
By Dr Charlie Easmon Performers may be perfectionists and perfectionists are more prone to mental health problems and included in this are eating disorders. In at least 50% of people with eating disorders there is an existing mental health disorder of depression or...
As Christmas approaches and many offices including our own close for a few days to end 2020, we are very much aware that the need for mental health support amongst performers won’t change. Indeed at BAPAM during the course of this year we have seen a big...
Over this lockdown period, as an additional support for creative practitioners with mental health concerns, BAPAM piloted offering a short online group therapy programme. Following these sessions, we spoke with Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, a GP and BAPAM Assessing...
This Thursday, 17th September, BAPAM GP, Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, joins Mig Burgess of the Association of British Theatre Technicians for a Facebook Live panel session with the Mandy Network centred on mental health in the creative industries. Tamara and Mig will...
Our Summer 2020 Newsletter is now available to read online. This edition features: Free Online Healthy Practice Training Sessions and Community Drop-in Covid-19 Advice Anxiety Management BAPAM 2019 Annual Review Updated Factsheets Articles and Press You can read all...
In this guest blog, BAPAM counsellor and therapist, Fiona Macbeth, offers practical advice for arts workers experiencing anxiety about work during the Covid 19 pandemic. There’s a lot that people who work and create in the performing arts could be doing, and should...
Even at the best of times, maintaining good mental health while sustaining a career in the arts presents unique challenges. The current pandemic disrupts our communities, creative practices and ability to earn a living, and brings significant...
Consultation Paper BAPAM is pleased to have brought together a working group of clinicians and performing arts organisations interested in addressing challenges to the mental health and wellbeing of those who work in the sector. The group has produced guidance to...
BAPAM has convened a Psychosocial Working Group to bring together clinicians including doctors, clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, charities working with performing arts professionals to support mental health, and academics conducting key...
At BAPAM we work with mental health specialists who have the knowledge and experience to help performing arts clients. On 17th November, Clinical Psychologist Dr Anna Colton will be speaking at our training day about the Performance Environment, covering anxiety, how...
The pressures of performing in today’s social media culture means more and more therapists are working backstage to support performers in need according to an article in the Sunday Telegraph. BAPAM registered psychotherapist Helen Brice who is featured in the article,...
Read our August 2018 Newsletter here Scotland clinics Arts Specialist Psychologists and Psychotherapists PPL CEO Peter Leathem Appointed BAPAM Chairman BAPAM Training Day: The Performance Environment Forthcoming Events
