53 Quotes About Counselling

Psychotherapy is not a method of repairing problems or fostering personal happiness. That is psychotechnique. On the contrary ... it is fundamentally an ethical and a political task.

I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.

Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research.

In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is not the way forward.

Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Inner beauty doesn't try to be seen, it's obvious to all that choose to look

Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.

When therapy becomes something so structured in its formulation that it's the same, whoever does it, then the humanity of it will have been lost and artificial artificial intelligence may well be the logical replacement for our therapeutic disciplines.