Quotes About Counseling

Only a minority of people who are unhappy in their marriages today still feel that way even five years later. Unhappy marriages can and often are turned around when couples learn better communication skills or get helpful counseling, or even when they just stick it out and wait for the stresses that are preying on their marriage to subside. And divorce often brings new, unexpected stresses.

A psychiatrist is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

If a person finds that he doesn't know himself very well, often he can rely on the help of another person who has known him and has been able to observe him over several years.

When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Athletes are people too, we go through a lot of things, but it all became easier when there was someone who could guide and counsel.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?

If, however, we make our needs and desires known in the form of a request, we are giving guidance, not ultimatums.

We no longer enjoy being with each other. We don't meet each other's needs." Their stories bear testimony that adults as well as children have "love tanks.

Could it be that deep inside hurting couples exists an invisible "emotional love tank" with its gauge on empty? Could the misbehavior, withdrawal, harsh words, and critical spirit occur because of that empty tank?

It also should not be assumed that a marital crisis—the kind where one or both partners feel as if they "can't take it anymore" and seriously consider splitting up—inevitably leads to divorce.

This really makes sense," Mary said. "Thank you," Dave said. They took each other by the hand and walked toward their car. I said to myself out loud, "I think this is what church is all about. I think I am going to enjoy being a counselor." I have never forgotten the insight I gained under that chinaberry tree

WE EXPECT COUNSELING centers with their commitments to healing and their high degree of training to be community oases. When those values are violated, it strikes us as very strange. Other organizations dealing with social breakdown and crime often hire less trained employees and sometimes the combustible fumes in the air explode.

What is ironic is that we recognize the need for education in all other pursuits of life and fail to recognize that need when it comes to marriage. Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage.

This was the upshot of twenty marriage-counseling sessions at the feet of a fat older Jewish woman who looked like half of Barry's relatives from the Bronx, the Cohens' ancestral seat before his father had struck out for Long Island with its burgeoning collection of pools in need of cleaning.

Now that I have told you by whom you should be counseled, now will I teach you which counsel you ought to eschew. First, you must avoid the counseling of fools. For Solomon says, 'Take no counsel from a fool, because he can offer no advice but that which follows from his own desires and his own interests.' The Book says that, 'The condition of a fool is this: he easily believes evil of every person, and easily believes all goodness is in himself.

Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.

Therapy and counseling can do wonderful things for people. But they have emerged so far as what are sometimes called 'cottage industries' - that is, as individuals or small groups offering generally quite expensive services to a few clients.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

The best thing about it is getting it all out there. Whatever you have on your chest, it just feels really good to talk to somebody who you have no ties to... so I think therapy is great. I think everyone should try it out.