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..

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 ….

When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sen….

For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination ….

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….

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of pr….

I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my mind. What happens when the jokester is no….

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….

There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn ….

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….

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a ….

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

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

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

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….

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

Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Kare….

The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people….

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for her to love me and to make me whole….

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

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much..