Quotes About Counselling

#1. She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my country's relationship with alcohol. How would I ever exist in the United States? I suppose I would have grief counselling instead. (77)

Peter Carey

#2. Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

Suzanne Keys

#3. Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#4. I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.

Ella Eyre

#5. Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

Stockwell Day

#6. You want them to give Batman counselling sessions?"
"It's genius. Just make Bruce Wayne get over his shit, then, presto, no more Batman. The baddies win by default.

Jay Stringer

#7. Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.

Jay Woodman

#8. Confession and ordinary counselling can satisfactorily help to resolve most of the issues that confront people on a daily basis. Some

Lazar Puhalo

#9. The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper.

Mark Haddon

#10. It's like you have some sort of breast obsessive compulsive disorder. Have you considered seeking counselling for your addiction?' He sighed, face carefully set 'nothing wrong with a man admiring a fine female chest but if you disagree feel free to hold it against me.

Kylie Scott

#11. Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Adrienne Clarkson

#13. If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.

Frank Bruno

#14. In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Harold S. Kushner

#15. Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Malcolm Fraser

#16. The great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as poetry or relationship counselling.

Alain De Botton

#17. It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

Pete Sanders

#18. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.

John Eldredge

#19. Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world.

David Smail

#20. My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

John Dolan

#21. Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research.

Barbara Temaner Brodley

#22. In a world where we seem to be beset by a trend towards 'manualising treatment modalities' the person-centred approach stands and says NO, that is not the way forward.

Richard Bryant-Jefferies

#23. Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.

Dave Mearns

#25. Sexual relationships are about creating a personal level of cohesiveness.

Asa Don Brown

#26. I like marriage, family life and I wish to get married again. But opting out of an unhappy marriage was a duty toward myself & my future.

Rossana Condoleo

#27. Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

Dave Mearns

#28. I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.

Carl R. Rogers

#29. Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.

John McLeod

#30. Inner beauty doesn't try to be seen, it's obvious to all that choose to look

The Cambridge Counsellor

#31. Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

Garry L. Landreth

#32. There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#33. The mind of a child is a precious thing.

Asa Don Brown

#34. There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!

Rossana Condoleo

#35. It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.

John Bowlby

#36. The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development.

Dave Mearns

#37. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.

Asa Don Brown

#38. Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

Hazel Johns