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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….

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….

Coming out of graduation, I didn't immediately know what direction I wanted to do so I decided to just stay as an intern until it really kind of dawn….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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]..