Quotes About Counseling

the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as poetry or relationship counselling.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

One day in the Little Theater of Hurt Feelings the husband announces that he would like to try a separation. The wife is stunned. He has said nothing to her until now. But the shrink discourages it. "You might as well just get divorced," she says.

I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

The Jesse Duplantis Counseling Program: Admit it...Quit it...and Forget it... NEXT!!!

Nu subapreciez sinuciderile atunci când le numesc sl?biciuni, subliniez c? oricine se gânde?te s? fac? un astfel de lucru are nevoie de ajutor. Nu cred c? o persoan? normal?, s?n?toas? mental, poate s? se sinucid?.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

A friend is by definition an unpaid therapist.

Every one needs to talk to some one, the woman said. Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.

Today in the West most of us are going to have two or three significant long-term relationships or marriages. And some of us are going to do it with the same person. When a couple comes to me in the aftermath of an affair, I often tell them this: Your first marriage is over. Would you like to create a second one together?

MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor.

The process of motivational interviewing can help you figure out what you want to change in your life, why you might change it, and, finally, how to make that change.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

There are different techniques - some interventionists are really loving, others are very tough.

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.