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

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

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 don't think that's right for clients to have a therapist who wants that kind of life.

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

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 serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

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

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