Spotlight: Margaret Stretch, Licensed Family Therapist

This episode highlights improviser Margaret Stretch, who is also a Licensed Family Therapist. She speaks about improv as a therapeutic activity, holding boundaries as an improviser, and also, why a therapist would make a great improviser!

Check out her improv set here.

If she can convince you to come and play, contact us!

(0:00) Introducing Margaret

(1:34) Margaret's 5 Slashes

(2:48) Surprising adventures

(6:16) Margaret's path to becoming a therapist

(8:16) Margaret's reframe when plans went astray

(10:17) On "holding space" for others as a therapist

(10:58) Improv as therapeutic, but not therapy; boundaries

(15:35) Self-care

(16:46) Why a therapist would make a great improviser

(18:42) What improv teaches us: connection, social cues, letting go