Quotes by Kelly Carlin-McCall

Kelly Carlin-McCall

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

Needs

Therapists

Used

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

Hands

People

Too Much

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

Creative

Essentials

Successful

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

Art

Integrating

Matter

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!

Artist

Two

Years

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.

Creating

Jobs

Thinking

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 and a response to the environment, as you know. So they’re both very similar in that way because it’s about one’s inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that.

Art

Creativity

Imagination

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.

Jobs

People

Psych

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.

Calling

Path

Way

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.

Clients

People

Thinking

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Artist

Artwork

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Calling

Careers

Circles

Class

Clients

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Dad

Different

Dream

Essentials

Firsts

Form

Grey

Hands

Healing

Heavy

Imagination

Important

Integrating

Interesting

Jobs

Kind

Knowing Who You Are

Laughing

Long

Love Is

Matter

Mean

Medicine

Mother

Moving

Needs

Negative

Pain

Painful

Past

Path

People

Perfectionism

Powerful

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Quotes by Kelly Carlin-McCall

Kelly Carlin-McCall

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

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

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

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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