Quotes About Counseling

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

I have started seeing a psychologist to try to help me think positively.

My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

I don't feel bad about telling somebody I see a psychologist. I don't feel that you should feel bad about improving yourself.

I was going to college. But to be, like, a psychologist, wanting to help people but also just kind of not being my parents.

I want to be a psychologist.

The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.

I write relationship columns for a couple of publications.

As my mentor in Medical School, Dr William Strong taught me: Never wear a white coat; it separates you from a fellow human being. I never have from that day on. You are your patients guide, counselor, and defender, not their ruler and dictator.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

If I was counselling an individual, and my purpose was to help that individual, the most important thing would be that you should save more. Because don't expect that your retirement will follow those trajectories that some advisers are telling you.

I told my psychiatrist, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.

the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt. Even within the Four Horsemen, in fact, there is one emotion that he considers the most important of all: contempt. If Gottman observes one or both partners in a marriage showing contempt toward the other, he considers it the single most important sign that the marriage is in trouble.

Gottman has proven something remarkable. If he analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent.

Gottman is far more selective. He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

this is why Gottman has couples talk about something involving their marriage — like their pets — without being about their marriage. He looks closely at indirect measures of how the couple is doing: the telling traces of emotion that flit across one person's face; the hint of stress picked up in the sweat glands of the palm; a sudden surge in heart rate; a subtle tone that creeps into an exchange.