Therapists Quotes · Page 2

Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.

— Jed Diamond

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

— Mary Pipher

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

— Beth Ditto

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

— Jack Kornfield

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

— Anonymous

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

— Greta Gerwig

Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

— Karen Horney

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

— Ilona Andrews

“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his…

— Randolph M. Nesse

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't…

— Dick York

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

— Thomas Moore

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

— Albert Ellis

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more…

— Jesse Eisenberg

He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear…

— Karen Marie Moning

“No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don’t believe them.”

— Ruth Dugdall

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have…

— Todd Rundgren

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to…

— Ellie Goulding

“Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish.…

— Gwyneth Lewis

With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic…

— Sharon Stone

I know. So, I was angry with you. I didn't know why. I was angry with the world. I did know why.…

— Gayle Forman

“Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued…

— Shannon L. Alder

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a…

— Merrill Markoe

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose…

— Rollo May

Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has…

— Gary A. Kowalski

She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the…

— Tom Perrotta

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how…

— John Dufresne

People are often very frightened of their anger. They feel it will cause them to do something harmful. If you have this…

— Shakti Gawain

Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up…

— Albert Ellis

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the…

— James Hillman

I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said,…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

— Mary Pipher

If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world.

— Demi Lovato

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— Shirley MacLaine

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

— Noelle Scaggs

Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist,

— Andie MacDowell

My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

— Anonymous

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

— Susie Orbach

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

— Gail Sheehy