Therapists Quotes

• Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

  100 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Bad Day, Challenges

  49 Copy quote

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

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

  168 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Claire Danes

  Realizing, Problem, Claire

  15 Copy quote

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

  Jay London

  Worry, Nuclear, World

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Fitness

  13 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Office

  37 Copy quote

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

  Jed Diamond

  Acceptance, Unconditional Love, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

  Haylie Duff

  Kids, Random Things, Speech

  3 Copy quote

• When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  People, Parent, Scared

  "Exclusive Interview: Glee's Harry Shum, Jr." by Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 11, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

  Susie Orbach

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  Laura Benanti

  Jobs, Dad, Thinking

  3 Copy quote

• I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  School, Going Back To School, Considering

  3 Copy quote

• I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

  Neve Campbell

  People, Know How, Knows

  3 Copy quote

• I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.

  Stephen Furst

  Children, Degrees, Counseling

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2017.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sex therapist claims that the most effective way to arouse your man is to spend 10 minutes licking his ears!! Personally, I think its bollocks!!

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  9 Copy quote

• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Advice, Know It All

  3 Copy quote

• I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

  Alex Gaskarth

  School, Helping Others, Ideas

  Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

  John Waters

  People, Workaholic, Share

  3 Copy quote

• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Broadway Theatre, Feelings

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

  Karen Scalf Linamen

  Who Cares, Chance, Whining

  Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.

  Virgil Miller Newton

  Skills, Progress, Problem

  "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

  Alain de Botton

  Teacher, Writing, Careers

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Pete Wentz

  Kids, Parent, Firsts

  3 Copy quote

• There was the period where I wanted to be a therapist, if the acting thing didn't work. That was pretty much it. I don't know why. I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, People, Acting

  "Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd WANDERLUST Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 20, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source