Vivien in Conversation with Batya Srolovitz – Choosing Autonomy

Our guest today is an interior decorator and a psychotherapist. A combination that I personally find utterly fascinating, because to me, my psychology is the composition of my personal interior. So from exterior spaces to interior spaces, let’s welcome Batya Srolovitz.

 Audio Transcript:

Hello and welcome to The Schapera Show. Our guest today is an interior decorator and a psychotherapist.

A combination that I personally find utterly fascinating, because to me, my psychology is the composition of my personal interior. So from exterior spaces to interior spaces, let’s welcome Batya Srolovitz.
Batya, thank you for coming on the show.

Hi, thank you so much, it’s so nice to be here.

Wonderful. Batya, let’s begin with some landscape and some history. I always enjoy giving a context. So how about you tell us about your background?

Sure. Um I grew up in Los Angeles. I moved to New York City for college with the intention of becoming both an artist and a therapist. I had wanted to be an artist since I was five, so that was set in stone, and then I decided to add in being a therapist. So I majored in visual arts, I minored in psychology, and after graduation I worked as an artist, as I had planned for eleven years, um mainly making kids who both, which are marital agreements. And they’re usually art pieces hung on the walls.

Um since ancient times they’ve sort of been decorated. And I would you know meet with couples and I would design them based on their love story, their interests, their hopes, their dreams, what brought them together. So that was sort of my first um entree into working with couples and I loved it.

And then I slowly started becoming an interior decorator. Um I was found by mainly middle aged men who needed a female voice to redecorate their apartments and help them with renovations. And then after a little while doing that, um I was pregnant with my second child by that point, and I sort of had this inkling, this um yearning inside saying like it’s it’s either time to further commit to the interior decorating or it’s time to go back to school to be a therapist.

So I actually did something that I helped clients do now, which is I envisioned myself in the life of what I thought an interior decorator would be, you know meeting, with clients at stores, meeting with them in their apartments, talking to them about colors and fabrics.

And then I envisioned myself sitting in an office with lots of books behind me, talking to people about their lives, and my body just said immediately, that’s it, that’s right, that’s what you should be doing. 

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