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

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

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 sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

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 dawned on me and I felt more compelled one way or the other. So I gave it a few years and then after two years it was really clear that deep down I missed being a full time creative artist. Ironically, I started getting clients who were all in the entertainment industry and a lot of them were in comedy!

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 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].

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