Lou Platt – Artist Wellbeing Practitioner

Psychotherapist and artist wellbeing practitioner Lou Platt was brought up by her Avon Lady mother and her nuclear engineer father, who also created sets both for their local theatre, and for Lou to perform at home. Basking in her role of the second lead as the Merry Wizard in the school play, Lou went on to become a professional performer, co-founding The Other Way Works, creating playful theatre immersing audiences in their stories. Using autobiography as performance, Lou absorbed herself in a role very similar to her mother, but despite her love of performing, she also suffered deeply from performance anxiety. This, in combination with her own experience in family therapy as a child, helped inform her decision to become a therapist.  Lou has now founded her own company Artist Wellbeing, and strives to enable all types of artists and performers to not only take radical care of their mental health and wellbeing, but to also reach and maintain their fullest creative potential. Lou shares her journey with disarming honesty and authenticity, offering perspective in times of crisis and ideas for us to reflect on our past and look to the future. Please note, this episode contains some swearing.  Lou’s website is www.artistwellbeing.co.uk  The theatre company that Lou founded is: www.theotherwayworks.co.uk Podcasts on Polyvagal Theory can be found here & here The Internal Family Systems Therapy that Lou mentioned can be found here: https://ifs-institute.com/