Quotes About Counseling

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

That makes three suicides without logical explanations. Now, for people like Fitzhugh and the senator, with their kind of financial base, there's counseling at the snap of a finger. Or in cases of terminal illness—physical or emotional—voluntary self-termination facilities. But they took themselves out in bloody and painful ways.

I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

One thing marriage counseling instilled in Hilton was a compulsion for open communication. Whether at home or at work, he knew that anything left unsaid was far more dangerous than spoken words could be, no matter how hurtful.

if you're interested in learning more about his schema model, read Reinventing Your Life).

My observation after thirty-five years of school administration, parenting, pastoral work, and counseling is that children generally do not resist authority that is truly kind and selfless.

I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I'm good at listening to people's problems.

My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.

Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.

discipulado en consejería es un intento de ir al encuentro de la persona allí donde está y ayudarla a resolver sus conflictos personales y espirituales de manera que pueda quedar establecida en la vida y la libertad que tiene en Cristo.