Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old therapist quotes, therapist sayings, and therapist proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Always remember that for each patient you see you may be the only person in their life capable of both hearing and holding their pain. If that’s not sacred, I don’t know what is.Corner Canyon Counseling
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Success as a therapist is not found in doing something for the client, but rather in being something for the client.Ili Rivera Walter
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Someone's therapist knows all about you.Dominic Riccitello
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Want to get paid for watching daytime soaps? become a therapist!Paul MacAlindin
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Sometimes the night can be your best therapist. For the moon is free, and always there to listen.A. Y. Greyson
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The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes, was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness.Fritjof Capra
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The idea is to improve somebody's day. That's how I've always viewed my job. I'm a distraction therapist. I make people's problems go away for just a little bit.Steve-O
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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
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As a therapist, I've worked with many high-achieving people who don't feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.Amy Morin
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It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist.Dan Reynolds
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.Truman Capote
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Warning: Therapy can be dangerous to your health. Especially if you are the therapist.Suzy McKee Charnas
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Psychotherapy has become a branch of applied biochemistry.Poul Anderson
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Every therapist on Earth was also in therapy; it was part of the job.Kim Stanley Robinson
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Healing is a somewhat automatic by-product of self-expression, not a goal per se. This fact can confuse some people—particularly therapists, who want to "understand" the workings of a process that is both mysterious and spiritual.Julia Cameron
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My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.Dave Barry
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Why, if it wasn't for psychoanalysis you'd never find out how wonderful your own mind is!Susan Glaspell
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Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.Eda J. Le Shan
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.Abigail Van Buren
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.Sigmund Freud
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Psychotherapy has taught us that in the final reckoning it is not knowledge, not technical skill, that has a curative effect, but the personality of the doctor.Carl Jung
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We serve the patient in various functions, as an authority and as a substitute for his parents, as a teacher and educator.Sigmund Freud
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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.Viktor E. Frankl
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A good therapist really listens, assesses your life and asks questions for you to reflect on. It's like they hold up an invisible mirror so you can see yourself better and find your own answers.Anne Neill
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All therapists have the inherent drive to reach in and help turn on the shining brilliance of each person with whom we work.Lisa Ruth Mitchell
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A therapist is a trained medical professional with the ability to absorb and process complex ideas about human emotion.Janet
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I am gonna graduate go and be a therapist / Open up a practice for CP, that’s imperative / I don’t wanna talk about the money or awards no / I am gonna make an impact give ‘em the support so / Kids with disabilities have someone who’s available / Who can have a conversation ‘bout the unexplainable.Jake Darus
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The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.Carl Jung
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Many modern psychotherapists have adopted as their credo, Socrates' declaration that "the unexamined life is not worth living." But for modern man that is not enough. We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.Thomas S. Szasz
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The psychotherapist tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world of social convention but not of the world.Alan Watts