Therapists Quotes

People need medicine and they need therapists.

— Mickey Rourke

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

— James Nesbitt

My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.

— Jennifer Westfeldt

Thank God my best friend's a therapist.

— Amanda Palmer

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

— Susie Orbach

I really need a therapist.

— Topher Grace

I've been to therapists my whole life.

— Christina Ricci

Thieves don't usually make good therapists.

— Ari Melber

When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

— Jay McInerney

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

— Stephen Furst

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

— Cheryl Strayed

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

— Jessica Simpson

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

— Virginia Satir

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

— Gail Sheehy

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.

— Susie Orbach

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

— Neve Campbell

“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'…

— Irvin D. Yalom

J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and…

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

“As therapists our job is to see our clients, even at those times when we would rather look away. It is though…

— Louis Hoffman

“My experience with therapists is that they were no better than mental prostitutes. I paid them to listen to my shit.”

— Kristen McGuiness

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were…

— Alice Hoffman

All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition…

— Tobey Maguire

On stage and in person, I think I am nice, thoughtful, and empathetic. But for some reason when I'm online, I become…

— Joe Mande

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a…

— Albert Ellis

...but Cliff keeps pushing for the truth like therapists do, because they all have some sort of psychic ability that allows them…

— Matthew Quick

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I…

— Daphne Zuniga

Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter. (...)mental health... is not a destination but a process. It's about…

— Noam Shpancer

There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass.…

— David D. Burns

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay…

— Jack Kornfield

I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then…

— Emo Philips

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake…

— Stephanie Klein

“Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate experiences that are otherwise excluded…

— Michael Salter

Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and…

— Carl Rogers

“It is necessary to make this point in answer to the 'iatrogenic' theory that the unveiling of repressed memories in MPD sufferers,…

— Alice Jamieson

“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain…

— Michael Salter

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:…

— Irvin D. Yalom

An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or…

— Alain de Botton

“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows…

— Michael Salter