on letting things separate
Over the past year, I’ve been figuring out how my work actually fits together. I’m a psychologist, and I’m also an artist. Both are real parts of my life, and for a long time I felt like I needed to either integrate them here, or choose between them.
But the truth is, I don’t want to do either.
I spent many years training as a psychologist, and I take that work very seriously. I work with therapy and coaching clients, and that part of my life isn’t going anywhere—if anything, it deepens with time. At the same time, I’m not fulfilled unless I’m creating—photography, print, time outside, working with light and color. That’s just as essential for me.
If you’re someone who feels pulled in more than one direction, you probably understand what I mean. Life might feel simpler if you chose one, but fulfillment doesn’t always work that way.
And then there’s modern life. Social media. Trying to take something layered and real and fit it neatly into an Instagram container.
In the past, I tried pulling my creative work into its own separate space—new accounts, new websites—but it never really stuck. It always felt like I was forcing the wrong thing to move.
What I’ve realized is that these parts of my life don’t need to exist in the same place—but I had it backwards. It wasn’t my creative work that needed to be moved. It was my psychological work.
Using Instagram to share my creative work has always felt natural. Using it to share my psychological work never really did. That work isn’t meant to be showy or aesthetic, and it doesn’t need to live here. So I’m letting things separate.
I debated even saying anything, because in reality, nothing has changed about what I do—only where things live, and how I choose to show up here. I don’t feel called to talk about pain points or sell a coaching container online. That side of my work is a little more like it was in the 90s—quiet, referral-based, built on doing good work with real people.
If you’re someone I already work with in a therapy or coaching capacity, nothing is different. I’ll see you this week. And if you’re new and feel drawn to that side of my work, it’s still there—just in its own place now, at drhavlicek.com.
This space, and @bylindsayhavlicek, is simply my creative work. I’m looking forward to continuing to share what I’m making, what I’m noticing, and the work that’s taking shape—along with opening up photography bookings for 2026 and a few new offerings in the coming months. If you’re here for that, I’m really glad you are.