Quotes about Therapists

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. Votes: 6

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Votes: 4

Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction. Votes: 4

Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist, Votes: 4

Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist. Votes: 4

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. Votes: 4

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that. Votes: 4

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! Votes: 4

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness. Votes: 4

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power. Votes: 4

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Votes: 4

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world. Votes: 4

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. Votes: 4

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. Votes: 4

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy. Votes: 4

My therapist says I'm afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would REALLY cut into my sitting-around time Votes: 4

In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives. Votes: 4

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. Votes: 4

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. Votes: 4

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4) Votes: 4

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. Votes: 4

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own. Votes: 4

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it. Votes: 4

Frank Farrelly. . .must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'. Votes: 4

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17) Votes: 4

The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust... Votes: 4

Acupuncturists Chiropractors Massage Therapists Dentists and more! Votes: 3

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. Votes: 3

Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states"”negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book. Votes: 3

I've been to therapists my whole life. Votes: 2

People need medicine and they need therapists. Votes: 2

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.' Votes: 2

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew. Votes: 2

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors. Votes: 2

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet. Votes: 2

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. Votes: 2

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable. Votes: 2

The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill. Votes: 2

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range. Votes: 2

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then. Votes: 2

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements. Votes: 2

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive. Votes: 2

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. Votes: 2

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures. Votes: 2

You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and that people would go to a therapeutic meeting before plastic surgery. I think that should be part of the FDA requirement. Votes: 2

My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together. Votes: 2

If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone. Votes: 2

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous. Votes: 2

There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like. Votes: 2

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work. Votes: 2

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. Votes: 0

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists. Votes: 0

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted. Votes: 0

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change. Votes: 0

Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet. Votes: 0

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love. Votes: 0

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance. Votes: 0

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. Votes: 0

We can change the lives of autistic children. We can make a difference. There are hundreds of families in Florida who can't afford the therapists. Votes: 0

J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike. Votes: 0

Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity. Votes: 0

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from. Votes: 0

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives. Votes: 0

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. Votes: 0

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. Votes: 0

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . . Votes: 0

The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. Votes: 0

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately. Votes: 0

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is. Votes: 0

Boy lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers... are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their staid morality onto the young people in their custody. Votes: 0