DAVE BLANCO, MA, AMFT
Now Accepting Clients in-person in San Diego, CA, and via Telehealth Throughout California.
(949) 371-5125
Works With
Adults/teens
Visual and Performing Artists (Actors, dancers, musicians, artists)
Veterans
ADHD
Poly/ethical non-monogamy
Life transitions
Grief
Trauma
Board Certified Music Therapist (#15861)
MARI Practitioner
About Me
I work with performers, professionals, and overthinkers who appear high-functioning but feel stuck in repetitive relational or emotional patterns. Whether you're navigating anxiety and depression, relational ADHD, creative burnout, or integrating a significant life or psychedelic experience, therapy can become a place to understand how past experiences shape present reactions. My work integrates EMDR, narrative exploration, and experiential approaches to help you respond with greater clarity and choice.
Here is a suggested niche that I'd like to focus on for now.
Performers are often disciplined, driven, and deeply self-aware, yet privately navigating perfectionism, anxiety, comparison, or burnout. In performance culture, worth can become tied to output, rejection becomes routine, and injury can shake identity at its core. I work with dancers, musicians, actors, visual artists, writers and athletes to understand how past experiences, embodied patterns, and creative pressures shape both performance and relationships. Therapy becomes a space to move from self-criticism and reaction toward clarity and choice. My work integrates EMDR, narrative exploration, and experiential approaches to help you untangle perfectionism, process embodied stress, and reconnect with agency, both on and off the stage.