My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that.".

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily..

If you can see yourself more than just a victim, aha, now you've got the place to move into that is much more vital and creative and is resourceful t….

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly..

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what..

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor..

I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maure….

The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine..

I remember going on vacation for two weeks once and one of my clients who was very clinically depressed really could not handle it, really unraveled ….

Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans..

You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions tha….

With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to stud….

There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we over-identify with it. If we laugh at it, ….

I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism..

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it a….

I didn't think I'd be a good therapist. I didn't think I could do both at the same time. Maybe some people can, but I wanted a bigger spotlight and I….

I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life..

If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If ….

Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thi….

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist]..

This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make a difference in the world. Lately I've com….