In high school Jill Morris read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams In college she interpreted her college friends' dreams at the breakfast table. Although a psychology major, she had her mind set on being a writer. After graduation, she landed her first job at Mademoiselle Magazine, then continued to write on magazines for another ten years.

Until... on a plane trip from Madrid to New York, she had a strange waking dream. She envisioned the figures in a famous surrealistic painting moving into various configurations. What was this dream telling her, she wondered, and then she knew. The process of painting, she realized, was the most direct way to express the unconscious mind - just like a dream. In fact, dreams and paintings were similar; both are visual and can reveal unconscious content.

When she got back to New York, she gave up her writing job, and immersed herself in painting. During this time, while continuing to paint, she accepted an assignment to write a book on LSD. The hallucinogen intrigued her because it induced dream-like states and brought forth repressed memories. One day a friend who was a psychoanalyst invited her to sit in at a case presentation at her institute. This was it! Psychoanalysis was now the path she wanted to pursue, and would not interfere with her other interests, in fact, psychotherapy, dreams, painting and writing are all related and can enhance one another. She enrolled in the training program at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies.

Today, although her practice is her number one priority, she continues to write, paint and teach when time permits. She also has trained and become certified in two other modalities: Imago therapy and Integrated Feeling Therapy. Her ambition is to keep learning and opening herself up to new ideas. She has been practicing 25 years in her Greenwich Village office, and has found it a ceaselessly enriching and rewarding experience.