Creativity Analysis
Return Your Creativity to Life.
Psychoanalytic Reflection for Direction and Renewal.
A clinically supervised, research-led consultation restoring creativity as the primary function by which we live, perceive, and invent.
Creativity Analysis is a distinct, specialist practice, intentionally separate from coaching or traditional therapy. It is for those seeking depth and permission to engage the unconscious impulses, resistances and instincts that shape their work and life, and that are so often overlooked in conventional helping practices.
Uncover and reanimate the unconscious forces shaping your creativity — not as a product, but as a process of meaning and discovery.
It’s time to reclaim your creativity and return it to life.
What is Creativity Analysis?
Creativity Analysis is a specialist, research-informed practice. It supports exploration of creativity as a fundamental meaning-making function — the unconscious processes through which we perceive, interpret, and engage with the world. This is not coaching, mentoring, or therapy; it is a reflective, psychoanalytically and philosophically grounded inquiry into the impulses, resistances, and patterns that shape how you create and live.
Where conventional creative guidance often focuses on goals, skills, or outcomes, Creativity Analysis begins elsewhere: with the underlying drives and subtle dynamics shaping your creative life. This work is reflective and deeply attuned, supporting insight, clarity, and growth on a fundamental level. Through careful listening, research-informed dialogue, and patient observation, deeper shifts unfold naturally and at your own pace. This fosters sustainable, resilient ways of working, thinking, and being in the world.
At its core is a simple but radical idea: creativity is not only what we produce, but the function through which we make meaning and orient ourselves in the world.
All prospective clients complete an intake form and a brief informal conversation before beginning, ensuring a personalised and rigorous process tailored to your creative and life context.
How it works:
Sessions move at your pace, centred on the questions and concerns you bring. Through psychoanalytically-informed dialogue, we explore the unconscious dynamics shaping your creativity — the tensions, impulses, and patterns that both enable and obstruct your capacity to invent and live meaningfully.
The aim is not prescriptive advice or strategies, but a process of re-attunement, restoring clarity, resilience, and freedom in how your creativity unfolds across your work and life.
Creativity Analysis is clinically supervised, combining the oversight of clinical practice with the depth of philosophical inquiry.
Who is it for?
- Creatives feeling blocked or disconnected from their work.
- Professionals looking for a sense of meaning and personal alignment.
- Individuals navigating change, uncertainty or burnout.
- Leaders and organisations seeking resilience and sustainability in creative work.
- Helping professionals seeking CPD that explores the role of creativity and the imagination in relation to wellbeing.
What makes it unique?
- Research-led: Rooted in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and over a decade of academic and creative research. This is not borrowed wisdom or opinion, but a rigorously developed and clinically supervised practice.
- Distinct: Neither therapy nor coaching, but a clinically supervised consultation with creativity at its core. This is a practice by creatives, for creatives.
- Relational: You are not treated as a project to be “coached,” but accompanied through a sustained, personalised, and reflective process.
- Creativity as foundational: Here, creativity is understood not as output, but as the meaning-making function by which we live.
About me:
I’m Dr Cameron Dodds, a Creativity Analyst, researcher, and artist. With a PhD exploring psychoanalysis and applied philosophy within creativity, I have spent over a decade working at the intersection of research and practice. I have taught and lectured in universities, supervised doctoral projects, supported organisational projects, and mentored artists and professionals at advanced levels.
This breadth of experience has shaped a rare practice: one that treats creativity not as output, but as the deep function through which we make meaning and orient ourselves in the world.
This work combines clinical supervision with philosophical inquiry to create a reflective, research-led space for understanding creativity as a fundamental human function. Each engagement is carefully tailored, ensuring a rigorous and personalised process aligned with your creative and life context.
Dr Cameron Dodds, PhD
Artist, Researcher & Creativity Analyst
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I provide a space where creativity can be explored without pressure, judgement, or the imposed definitions of productivity and success. This is not about techniques or strategies, but about uncovering the deeper conditions that allow creativity to emerge as a source of meaning in your life.
This work is rooted in a clinically supervised practice that integrates psychoanalytic insight with philosophical rigour — a rare combination that offers both clarity and compassionate challenge.
My approach draws on over a decade of focused research and more than twenty years of interdisciplinary creative practice. This means you benefit from both advanced scholarship and lived creative experience, distilled into a specialist practice found nowhere else.
Each process is deeply personalised. There is no programme, no formula — only a careful, responsive dialogue shaped around your creative blocks, resistances, ambitions and life context.
The aim is not surface-level fixes, but sustained transformation. Together, we work to clarify the unconscious impulses and meanings that drive your creativity, enabling new freedom, resilience, and a more authentic relation to your work and your life.
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I partner with organisations committed to deepening their creative capacity and leadership through a reflective, research-informed approach. Combining clinical supervision and applied philosophy, I help leaders and teams uncover hidden dynamics, foster resilient cultures, and align creativity with long-term purpose.
Unlock deeper creative potential
I take organisations beyond surface-level innovation by attending to the unconscious patterns and cultural resistances that shape creativity. This work reveals new possibilities and fresh perspectives that conventional approaches often miss.
Bring rigour and depth to leadership
Through clinically supervised, philosophically informed dialogue, I support leaders in cultivating reflective, nuanced decision-making that integrates creativity with organisational values and vision.
Foster resilient, experimental cultures
I help teams move beyond conventional constraints, cultivating practices that sustain experimentation, resilience, and bold thinking in the face of complexity.
Creativity as meaning-making
Rather than treating creativity as productivity or output, I help organisations recognise it as a fundamental process of meaning-making — strengthening engagement, purpose, and cohesion across the whole culture.
Research-led insight, tailored to context
Drawing on more than a decade of research and two decades of creative practice, I offer rigorously developed insight and bespoke support. This is not a standard consultancy service, but a specialist practice designed to transform how creativity functions within your organisation.
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As a CPD-accredited practitioner, I offer therapists, counsellors, coaches, and wellbeing professionals a rare opportunity for deep reflective practice, grounded in post-Jungian psychoanalysis and applied philosophy. This is not a skills workshop or standard training — it is an intensive, research-informed space for cultivating sustained professional and creative insight.
What this work offers:
Rigorous exploration of unconscious dynamics
Examine the patterns that shape not only your clients’ processes but also your own creative and professional practice.Creativity as a core meaning-making function
Gain insight into how creativity underpins perception, decision-making, and transformative work — enriching your capacity to support clients in profound ways.Clinically supervised, research-led reflection
Develop nuanced, reflective approaches to your practice, addressing creative blockages, professional challenges, and complex dynamics with rigour and clarity.Personalised mentorship
Sessions are tailored to your developmental needs, supporting sustained growth as a creative and professional practitioner.Integrating creativity into practice
Learn to apply creativity as a transformative function within your professional life, enhancing both your work with clients and your own professional development.
This work is ongoing, intensive, and deeply reflective — designed to cultivate resilience, clarity, and the capacity for meaningful, sustained insight in both professional and creative dimensions.
What I Can Offer You
Book with me today.
The Great Work Begins.
Before booking, please note that all new clients must complete a brief intake form. This ensures that what I offer is a good fit for your needs. If booking multiple sessions, I suggest booking one session every two weeks. Discounts are available under Packages.
Sessions are available online or in person in Godalming, Surrey.
I may also offer in-person sessions in London in the near future, depending on interest and demand.
If you’re curious about how creativity, philosophy, and psychology intertwine in everyday practice, I share deeper reflections and essays over in further reading and on my Substack.
Testimonials
Dr Douglas Thomas, Creative Psychotherapist and Author
“As an established artist and philosopher, Cameron Dodds is well acquainted with the many pathways of the creative life. If you are seeking guidance and support in developing your own creative potential, you will find Cameron possesses a rare talent for empathic listening, perceptive creative analysis, and intuitive understanding.”
Roseanna Dunn, Composer
“Working with Cameron has completely shifted my relationship with my practice. I came to mentoring feeling drained and disconnected from my values and output as a creative. With Cameron’s careful guidance, I have found joy in my art again. Having the space to work with someone so informed, patient, and with shared values has given me the confidence to break free of assumed trajectories of progress and success. Cameron’s person-led approach and the space of growth and safety created in our sessions have enabled me to make the cognitive shift toward living a more fulfilling, creative life.”
Lewis Hammond, Occupational Therapist
“Cameron has a real gift for listening, not just to what you’re saying, but to what’s between the lines. He created a space that felt grounded, safe, and completely free of judgment. His gentle, thoughtful approach, mixed with a creative edge, made it easy to open up in ways I didn’t expect. It felt less like a clinical session and more like being truly seen. He’s the kind of practitioner that people hope to find.”
Q: What is Creativity Analysis?
A: Creativity Analysis is a specialist, research-informed consultation practice. It supports exploration of creativity as a fundamental meaning-making function in your life and work. It is not coaching or therapy, but a reflective, psychoanalytically and philosophically informed inquiry into the impulses, resistances, and unconscious patterns shaping your creative life.
Q: How is this different from coaching or therapy?
A: Unlike coaching, which focuses on productivity and goal-setting, or therapy, which addresses clinical mental health, Creativity Analysis explores the deeper structures of your creative and meaning-making processes. It prioritises insight, attunement, and the conditions that allow new ideas and perspectives to emerge.
Q: Who is this for?
A: This practice is for professionals, artists, creatives, academics, and helping practitioners seeking depth and reflective insight. It is intended for those who feel blocked, disconnected, or seeking greater alignment between their work, life, and creative instinct. Creativity Analysis is a CPD-accredited, safe, and inclusive space for all, including LGBTQ+ clients.
Q: What can I expect from sessions?
A: Sessions are 55 or 85 minutes long, typically held every two weeks. They provide a space to explore your creative life in depth, uncover underlying patterns, and reflect on the processes shaping your work and decision-making. All guidance is research-informed and tailored to your individual context.
Q: Are sessions confidential?
A: Yes. Sessions are fully confidential within the boundaries of professional ethical standards. Privacy and safety are central to the practice.
Q: How do I begin?
A: Prospective clients start with a brief, free 20-minute intake conversation and complete an intake form. This ensures the practice is appropriate for your needs and allows us to define a personalised, rigorous approach.
Q: Is this suitable for clients with severe mental health conditions?
A: Creativity Analysis is not a clinical intervention for severe mental health concerns. Clients experiencing significant mental health issues should seek appropriate therapeutic support; referrals can be provided.
Q: Are group sessions available?
A: Yes. Group sessions offer a reflective environment to explore creative processes alongside others. They can complement individual consultation but are designed to preserve depth and attunement.
Q: What qualifications and professional oversight do you hold?
A: I am Dr Cameron Dodds, holding a PhD in psychoanalysis and applied philosophy within creativity. I have over a decade of research experience and two decades of interdisciplinary creative practice. All sessions are clinically supervised, and I hold public liability and professional indemnity insurance. Creativity Analysis is a CPD-accredited practice.