Lisa A. Riley, MA, LMFT

Lisa is a Creativity Coach and licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She has spent the last nine years working with creative individuals such as artists, actors, designers, musicians, writers, and actors. She has helped to empower clients to take steps towards enhancing their creativity and move closer to becoming the artist they envisioned themselves to be.

"I believe everyone was born with the innate desire to be creative beings and has the ability to tap into their creative potential."

Prior to her career as a Creativity Coach, Lisa received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Upon graduating she worked as a graphic designer for over 17 years with clients like Toyota, Nestle, Disney, Kaiser Permanente, Nissan and Deloitte & Touche, to name a few.

Having years of experience working in a corporate environment as well as being an entrepreneur, she understands the challenges of running a creative business and pursuing an artistic profession.

Deciding to return to one of her original passions, she obtained a Masters in Psychology. Since then she has integrated both creativity and psychology by providing Creativity Coaching to other artists and creative individuals.

Her background in psychology has increased her understanding of the creative personality and how the artist’s ongoing creative expression is essential to their well-being.

With her background as an artist, dancer, designer and writer along with her exploration of the creative process, she understands the unique challenges of pursuing an artistic life and profession.

Lisa is also currently a member and instructor at the Creativity Coaching Association where she has studied and trained under established Creativity Coaches Beverly Down and Eric Maisel.

She has also written various articles on topics pertaining to creative process and living a creative life. Her articles have been published on sites such as Creative-Portal.com, Goodtherapy.org, EmptyEasel.com, SelfGrowth.com, Highlysensitive.org and TalentDevelop.com.

Lisa continues to express her own creativity through her oil painting, visual journaling, photography and writing.