“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.” PeopleMatterJobsFrontsSeriousTrainingProgramAcademicClientsTherapistsPsych Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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.” PeopleThinkingWantKindWantedBiggerClientsTherapistsSpotlight Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.” DifferentStoriesInterestingStudyPsychologyProgramRegardMythologyTherapistsArchetype Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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].” IfsRealArtistNeededSkillsCapacityReal LifeTherapistsPart TimeLife Skills Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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 deeper way.” WayKindPathCallingDeeperLife ExperienceTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.” NeedsUsedTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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 thinking.” ThinkingFirstsHelpingUseJobsCreatingToolsSafetyFollyTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.” PeopleHandsToo MuchSeriousTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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 who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time.” PeopleImportantWantedCareersEssentialsDecidedPerformancesDecadesPursueTherapistsImportant Work Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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 Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.” ThinkingKnowsKindArtistImaginationLove IsInterestingKnownCreativityAnd LoveDepthPhotographerEngagedDancerGraduatesInstituteTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“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 their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.” FeelsFirstsKindRealEnoughMomentsJobsTurnsStuffLinesWalksVisionSafeShameSafetyCarefulClientsTherapists Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
