Quotes About Counseling

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.

The personal costs of counseling also remind us why it is so necessary for a counselor to experience continuous renewal through Scripture, prayer, and the sacraments. Only when one's own spiritual batteries are being continuously recharged can one hope to have something to give to others. And only in one's own personal walk with the Lord can one find the strength to bear not only one's own burdens but also those of others.

It is not enough for a professional to be right: An advisor's job is to be helpful. David

Así como el vínculo inicial de apego permitía el desarrollo del niño, es en última instancia el nuevo vínculo de apego con el terapeuta el que propicia el cambio en el paciente. Parafraseando a Bowlby (1988),

God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.

I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play.

I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.