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Hollywood’s Mental Health Crisis: Four On-Set Therapists Offer Advice Amid Industry Contraction
Four on-set therapists spoke with Deadline recently to explain their profession and offer thoughts on how creatives can best navigate an industry in contraction.
McCaffrey, founder of mental wellness company Solas Mind, which has worked on everything from Netflix’s Heartstopper to the Hugh Jackman drama The Son and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses, says that looking to the future, “People are anxious about: ‘What will the industry look like? Los Angeles-based Barton Goldsmith, a veteran of the space who’s been working in production since 1985, notes that therapists can be of use, for starters, in navigating emotionally-charged material, whether that be a storyline involving domestic violence, teen pregnancy, or the end of life. – Noelle Adames, The Artist Wellbeing Company Zuri Pryor-Graves, an Atlanta-based therapist and intimacy coordinator who has worked on projects like Netflix’s forthcoming August Wilson adaptation The Piano Lesson, advises film and TV professionals to “know that help is available and ask questions” — to investigate the mental health resources afforded to them by the production and their union, whether they include on-set therapy or not.
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