Relationship Therapy Quotes

#1. Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

David D. Burns

#2. My profession is its own reward

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. This isn't a countertop sex kind of moment, Iris.
What kind of moment is it, then?
It's a showing you how beautiful you are moment.

J.R. Richardson

#4. It was possible he had no idea his head was gathering material fit for a squirrel's nest; it was also possible he knew and thought it made him more attractive in a rustic, manly sense

Michael J. Sullivan

#5. As part of his life-saving therapy with suicidal patients and his own experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering.

Jeff Goins

#6. Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to
come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart,
stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving
your relationship.

William J Doherty

#7. I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Jodi Picoult

#8. No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#9. Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.

Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you'd end the relationship in the middle.

Howard: Why would I call it off?

Nita: I don't know!

Sarah E. Olson

#10. Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.

Sebastian Pole

#11. Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

William Glasser

#12. Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Rossana Condoleo

#14. 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

#15. It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas - it's always the relationship.

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Carl R. Rogers

#17. There is no evidence of spontaneous remission or integration of personality alters without mental health treatment. Therapy is long-term and requires the establishment of a strong therapeutic relationship with the individual.

Danny Wedding

#18. That's one of therapy's cruel aspects: the therapist is unique to you, but not the other way around. How unfair. It's the most unequal relationship you could imagine.

Marcela Serrano

#19. If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Karen Salmansohn

#20. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.

Mark W. Boyer

#21. It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure.

Steven R. McQueen