197 Quotes About Counseling

Facing one’s past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the counselor.— André Chevalier

Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. André Chevalier

Sure you’re all right?”The nurse. Maybe she was some kind of counselor, Chip thought, with some special kind of training, who gets sent around to deal with it when they find people staring out of windows.

INCESSANT READING IS THE LIGHT THAT APPREHENDS DARKNESS IN LEARNING

The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.

Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.

If you work with spiritual therapist, your chances are slim to relapse, but if you work with social therapist they tell you "Once your addict, you are always addicted," that is a set you up for relapse, but is guaranty business.

When you have deep insights about someone, you are being very matured by trying to help this person to fulfill his or her potentials by having a deep understanding about his or her strengths and weaknesses.

Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.