Therapist Quotes

“Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.”
― Laura Munson, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness

“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”
― Michael Adzema

“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was upsetting to think people could do stuff like that — they were not disjointed They were not repetitive in terms of "I've heard this before". It was not just she'd someone trying consciously or unconsciously to get attention. really processed them out and was done with them. She didn't come up with them again [after telling the story once and dealing with it]. Once it was done, it was done. And I think that was probably the biggest factor for me in her believability. I got no sense that she was using these stories to make herself a really interesting person to me so I'd really want to work with her, or something. Or that she was just living in this stuff like it was her life. Once she dealt with it and processed it, it was gone. We just went on to other things. 'Throughout the whole thing, emotionally Cheryl was getting her life together. Parts of her were integrating where she could say,"I have a sense that some particular alter has folded in with some basic alter", and she didn't bring it up again. She didn't say that this alter has reappeared to cause more problems. That just didn't happen. The therapist had learned from training and experience that when real integration occurs, it is permanent and the patient moves on.”
― Cheryl Hersha, Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country

“In psychoanalytical theory there is a phenomenon called transference. The therapist becomes a blank screen, onto which the patient projects some incident or feeling that began in childhood... it would not be a far reach for someone to look at my feelings for Jess and assume that, in the context of our relationship as tutor and pupil, I am not in love. I'm just in transference.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life.”
― Katrina Radke

“People speak of therapy as if it is some failsafe ordeal with a 100% success rate when it clearly isn't.

Its a really strange, childish and reductive way to see the world”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Women who see a therapist who is also a woman is destined to be unhappy and will have endless jargon that can easily be warped and restructured to keep them walking circles in the desert thinking they've crossed the horizon every session.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“If you feel comfortable enough to spill your guts to a stranger you pay per hour to do that with, then you'll be receptive to the idea of taking pharmaceutical dry ice with side effects that range from egregious to deadly.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Jesus is not at war with mental health professionals. You can walk hand in hand with both Jesus and a therapist. In fact, you are doing the bravest thing of all by allowing someone in who can walk you through the hard things. We were never meant to go on this journey alone.”
― Tabitha Yates, Jesus and Therapy: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health

“Dr. Jason Walker is a practitioner with many years of mental health care experience. He is working as working full-time as a college professor. Dr. Jason Walker has previously taught psychology to graduates and undergraduates in Canada, the UK and the United States.”
― Dr Jason Walker

“Jason M Walker is a member of the American Psychological Association and is a certified College Psychology Professor. In the future, Jason M Walker plans to expand his private practice while also establishing himself as a full-time tenured professor in psychology with a local university.”
― Jason M Walker, Crosby vs. Ovechkin vs. McDavid vs. Gretzky

“One of my doctors was always talking about insight- or being aware of your illness. Knowing you're nuts when you're nuts is way better than being nuts but thinking you're sane. Accepting help is better than pretending you don't need it.”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“I will not date a lady that has a therapist.”
― Steven Magee

“I was in a relationship with a lady for a decade that had a therapist. It did not end well!”
― Steven Magee

“I gave up hypnotic treatment for this very reason, because I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient’s own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient’s dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes. In this exchange with Freud, it dawned on me for the first time that before we construct general theories about man and his psyche we should learn a lot more about the real human being we have to deal with.”
― Carl G Jung, Man and His Symbols: A Popular Presentation of the Essential Ideas of Jungian Psychology with Over 500 Illustrations

“Frank Zebzda, a friendly and tenacious individual with aspirations of becoming a therapist and paramedic.”
― Frank Zebzda

“Shame-based clients require the kind of security-giving relationship that has been lacking in their lives.”
― Gershan Kaufman

“I called every therapist my insurance claimed was accepting clients, most of whom were not—a few specialized only in children. One told me she only spoke to dying people and did not think it clever to retort we were all terminal cases.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“Nature, like a broom in a swift hand, sweeps anxieties away, and floods the heart with stillness.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Even therapists need therapists!”
― Tammi Miller, Paperback Therapy

“When we produce art of any kind, it almost always contains hidden meaning: metaphors and symbols that help to identify emotions that we may feel but haven’t yet named.”
― Tammi Miller, Paperback Therapy

“It’s frustrating when your issues become too much for the therapist.”
― Niedria Kenny

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”
― Dr. Poison King

“I dare Bet that People whose Names I don't even know, talk about me with their Therapists.”
― Sino Melo

“A Psychiatrist who isn't a Therapist simultaneously, is worthless (in his Job).”
― Sino Melo

“Every scar tells a story. Let’s accept it with compassion, embrace it with love, and wear it as a symbol of our willingness to stand strong.”
― Ambidextrous Anmol

“Becca hesitated, as if contemplating a move on a chessboard. "Do you know what Stockholm syndrome is?”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance

“The purpose of therapy is to authenticate the therapist.
Skeptical Intelligencer (4), 2005”
― Michael Heap

“My therapist taught me once that the best way to deal with panic-inducing flashbacks is to think of them as scenes from a horror movie. Jump scares are terrifying the first time you see them because they catch you off guard, and because you don't know what to expect. But once you watch them again and again, once you know exactly when the demon-possessed nun jumps out from behind the corner, they lose their power over you.”
― R. F. Kuang

“My therapist taught me once that the best way to deal with panic-inducing flashbacks is to think of them as scenes from a horror movie. Jump scares are terrifying the first time you see them because they catch you off guard, and because you don't know what to expect. But once you watch them again and again, once you know exactly when the demon-possessed nun jumps out from behind the corner, they lose their power over you.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface