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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that." — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life. — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make a difference… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
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