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….

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

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 didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a….

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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

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 ….

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..

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….

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

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….

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

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it..

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 ….