Joe Guppy

Seattle native Joe Guppy, an award-winning writer and performer, worked in theater and television from 1980 to 1995. In 1996, he switched careers and trained to be a psychotherapist at Seattle University's existential-phenomenological master's program. He was a community mental health counselor for seven years and currently has a private practice in Seattle. His book, "My Fluorescent God: a psychotherapist confronts his most challenging case--his own," chronicles his experiences as a 23-year-old mental health patient in 1979. www.joeguppywriter.com