409 Quotes About Therapy

YOU GET A GOOD COMBINATION OF RESENTMENT AND ARROGANCE GOING YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU'LL END UP IN SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY MUCH INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM HELL AND ALSO THAT FEELS LIKE IT LASTS FOR AN ETERNITY...

I once had a burning desire to become a therapist. Then I realized I am not altogether impressed with the field. All they really had to do was get me to stop drinking, and after 8 years, they are still failing miserably. I still Love Booze... and Now I get the secondary payoff of 'beating' my substance counselor. hehehe. Idiots.

[C]lients seen in public mental health centers and general clinical practices are often more complex and potentially more challenging to work with than those who are screened and selected to participate in randomized clinical trials (RCTs; Briere & Lanktree, 2011; Lanktree et al., 2013; Spinazzola, Blaustein, & van der Kolk, 2005; Westen, Novontny, & Thompson-Brenner, 2004) and may be less responsive to RCT-developed treatment methodologies (Zayfert et al., 2005).

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

and the answer to why they're mad about the shoes is because they should change jobs

Had she, like a good therapist, helped me reach back in time to turn the dial on the locked safe of who I am? I had spent many hours with counsellors trying to remember, or to guess, or to chance upon or to deduce, the combination that would make it click and the door swing open.

Smile as often as you can, it's free therapy

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.