Quotes About Counseling

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling.

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

My biggest concern in counseling is not that God won't guide us into truth, but that either I or the counselee will get in His way through rigidity, pride, blind spots, defensiveness, and the like.

The current plethora of psychotherapeutic approaches can offer temporary relief from emotional pain, but they can never meet the deepest need of the human heart. Therefore, all secular counseling approaches fall short of truly meeting a hurting person at the deepest level of their need for God. Secular approaches cannot meet sacred needs.

We see Humble Inquiry as primarily about reducing one's ignorance, making sense of complicated situations, and in that process, deepening relationships. In contrast, the primary role of helping inquiry is to influence—to teach, coach, counsel, and heal.

Share your helping problem. More often than I care to admit I have found that when I was supposed to be helping someone, I suddenly did not know what to do next. When this happens, the best thing to do is to say to the client, "At this point I am stuck—I don't know what to do next to be helpful.

I know, when a man's best friend is his dog that man needs help - professional help. I understand that and I acknowledge it and I say to hell with it.

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That's just me being cocky like I am.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

We've all listened to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, haven't we? We all know how not to play a psychiatrist.

I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.

I used to see a psychiatrist in New York but I got bored.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.