Life Quote by Edward Teyber

“A therapist has to have clear boundaries, even with former clients. People already get into our heads—if they also get into our lives, there’s…

— Louise Penny

“Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to…

— Louis Cozolino

“Therapists are never “done” with growth, they are simply people who should be dedicated to learning as much about themselves and others as they…

— Louis Cozolino

“We have also seen that they give clients feedback about the impact they are having on the therapist—and others. It can be a gift…

— Edward Teyber

I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.

— Rollo May

“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

“Later on, I see how often therapists keep patients coming to them, not so much for the benefit of the patients but to satisfy…

— Marie Balter

“The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional…

— Louis Cozolino

“The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial location in the room, not his exquisitely…

— Thomas Lewis

“These unwanted performance pressures are generated when new therapists frame what they don’t know or can’t do yet as a “deficit” or as evidence…

— Edward Teyber

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he…

— Sheldon B. Kopp