Quotes About Counseling

It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.

Because therapy, Laurence, is the religion of the new millennium. And we're the priests.

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.

When the authorities disagree among themselves regarding the correct approach to psychological problems, where does the troubled person turn for help? In view of the opposed and apparently irreconcilable views represented by the different schools, he faces a serious dilemma: He is trapped between choosing a therapist blindly and trusting to luck or trying to cope with his psychological difficulties by himself.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

Family breakdown is blighting the lives of far too many children.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and they kept asking me 'What can I read to try to know what I'm about to be in for,' and while I did have some good suggestions, I figured... I don't know that that book is out there, and that's sort of why I had to write it.

Suicide is not a remedy.

I've been working for a while with a Scottish suicide prevention charity called The Joshua Nolan Foundation that brings the conversation about mental health into schools and provides free counseling for those who need it.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it.

It is a measure of our enculturation that the various acts of ministry (for example, counseling, administration, even liturgy) have taken on lives and functions of their own rather than being seen as elements of the one prophetic ministry of formation and reformation of alternative community.

Both Ruth and Ted visited him together and in separate sessions.

Every brain is different. And so must be every course of therapy.

As a counselor I have been taught, and I hold it to be a fundamental truth of human nature, that when someone withholds something traumatic it can cause great damage. When

Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.