Top 100 Quotes About Counseling
#1. Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ...
Asa Don Brown
#2. Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.
Stefan Fatsis
#3. You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?
Chinelo Okparanta
#4. When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...
Various
#5. Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run?
Becky Freeman
#6. Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#7. Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.
Asa Don Brown
#8. But there was no gangrene or amputations like the doctors threatened, and we got a B, so I don't see what all the noise and counseling was about. Anyway,
Christopher Moore
#9. If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.
Tucker Max
#10. A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people
and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools.
John Taylor Gatto
#11. As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences.
Aphrodite Matsakis
#12. Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.
James MacDonald
#13. The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It's so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.
Rasmenia Massoud
#14. Part of the genius of (Nick) Sabin's system was that he understood that no matter the skill set, he was inheriting vulnerable kids from various backgrounds. For those times when they made poor decisions, as they invariably did, the safety net must be strong as far and wide as possible.
Jeff Benedict
#15. In 1996, I entered into pastoral counseling with Pastor David Drake from the Metropolitan Chapel on North Forest Road in East Amherst, New York.
Janet Pfaff
#16. Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#17. The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.
Hollisa Alewine
#18. The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.
Murray Bowen
#20. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.
Lundy Bancroft
#21. This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.
Philip Zaleski
#22. Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should take an opposing position.
Robert A. Caro
#23. In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.
Jim Costa
#24. Children should be taught the inner and outer beauty related to one's sexuality and personal relationship to sex.
Asa Don Brown
#25. I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me.
Lee Trevino
#26. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
David Brooks
#27. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#28. Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
Asa Don Brown
#29. The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
Kabir
#30. Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals
Asa Don Brown
#31. The Ryan White Care Act provides money for community-based counseling centers. While that may sound noble and compassionate, we know from experience that "AIDS education" becomes a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents and lure teens into a self-destructive sexual lifestyle.
Christine O'Donnell
#32. Ice cream is three times more soothing and infinitely cheaper than counseling.
Lisa Aldridge
#33. Sorry. i just can't seem to help myself. My brain is freaking out. Two predawn mornings in a row. It doesn't know what to think, how to act. I'll have a talk with it later. Perhaps get it some counseling.
Darynda Jones
#34. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.
Richard Rohr
#35. We do not have to have the correct answers to listen well. In fact, often the correct answers are a hindrance to listening well, for we become more anxious to give the correct answer than to hear.
Richard J. Foster
#36. Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?
Asa Don Brown
#37. When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.
Mark W. Boyer
#38. It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.
E. M. Forster
#39. The power a wife is not to prove her husband but to improve him.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#41. Funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.
Katha Pollitt
#42. Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.
Michele Weiner-Davis
#43. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman
#44. So next time you hear a raving demagogue counseling hatred for other, slightly different groups of humans, for a moment at least see if you can understand his problem: He is heeding an ancient call that - however dangerous, obsolete, and maladaptive it may be today - once benefitted our species.
Carl Sagan
#45. Because counseling isn't about changing someone else. It's about trying to change yourself.
Nicholas Sparks
#46. You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#47. In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.
Joseph A. Micucci
#48. He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.
Charles Dickens
#49. By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
Sydney J. Harris
#50. Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.
Elizabeth Esther
#51. Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.
Joseph A. Micucci
#52. I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.
Charles W. Colson
#53. It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.
William C. Menninger
#54. The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.
Donald Miller
#55. Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your 'work style' the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#56. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#57. Mornings in the kitchen, afternoons in the counseling room, evenings out combing streets of half-lamplight: Hermann Park, Montrose, Sunnyside, Hiram Clarke, the Fifth Ward.
Colum McCann
#58. Perception and worldview are one's summary of life.
Asa Don Brown
#59. Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.
Asa Don Brown
#60. One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Max Lucado
#61. A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ...
Asa Don Brown
#62. All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
Timothy Keller
#63. Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.
Joseph A. Micucci
#64. Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.
Ram Dass
#65. One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
Rafael Cruz
#66. In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#67. Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser
#68. You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.
Kage Baker
#69. I think counseling is really important and we always love going and feel so much better after. I think everyone should go. People are like, 'It's so expensive' and this or that, but it's more important than buying clothes or a handbag or shoes. It's your life.
Kourtney Kardashian
#70. I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#71. Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".
Davis Bunn
#72. A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.
Gabrielle Dennis
#73. Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
Irvin D. Yalom
#75. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
#76. Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. "Free" counseling. "Free" healthcare. "Free" employment services. "Free" food. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.
Ken Wheaton
#77. A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake.
Asa Don Brown
#78. There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.
M. Russell Ballard
#79. The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#80. Mankind was designed to function as a worshipper of God for eternity, and the intent was for all aspects of his life to be acts of worship to the living God.
Jay E. Adams
#81. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#82. Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.
Aspen Baker
#83. A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base ...
Asa Don Brown
#84. It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.
Dennis Adonis
#85. Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
Adam Hamilton
#87. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#88. The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
Nicole Krauss
#90. To establish a Scriptural counseling relationship, the speaker says we must know the person to the level that they feel like they are known and to the level that we are moved by the hardness of their experience.
Edward T. Welch
#91. ...Domestic violence occurs at all socioeconomic levels.
Asa Don Brown
#92. Contemporary American fiction has become cheap counseling to the bereaved bourgeois.
Anis Shivani
#93. There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.
Asa Don Brown
#94. Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.
Winifred Gallagher
#95. If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.
Mike Pence
#97. Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. "Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling." Bobby shook his head. "No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job.
Patrick Lencioni
#98. If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
Alan Thicke
#99. A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.
Andy Stanley
#100. Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.
Miles Anthony Smith
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