Therapist Quotes

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger – issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

I meditate, I have a therapist, I walk every day.

I am my therapist, and I analyze what’s happening and if I’m being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won’t alienate the listener.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I’m not on the ice.

I have to say I have an amazing therapist. She’s my best friend for life. She’s taught me how to balance everything out.

A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded ‘ReSTART’ in what, until then, had been Rae’s house.

When I was a kid – and I don’t know why, it’s the most random thing – I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

Sure, I’ve had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don’t get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don’t get to put them in the paper like I do.

Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

If you’re truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there’s a family bond that you have. In fact, I’ve talked about this with therapists, especially if you’re talking about a relationship, because when you’re with somebody, you’re going to your family, and she’s alone.

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can’t help if the parents aren’t present, loving, and proactive.

Thank God my best friend’s a therapist.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

I’m too neurotic to be a therapist.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids – just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It’s how they learn to love and treat other people.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

There’s nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there’s truth to it – being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you’re working smaller clubs, you’re listening. You’re feeling an energy, you’re going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the therapist often tries to get the client to feel what they’re feeling when they talk about those kinds of things.

I had a talk with my older son a couple of days ago. I explained to him that I went to a therapist and I found out that I wanted two things very much: I wanted children and I wanted acting. My therapist said to combine this will be very hard. And being a parent is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I went to Rwanda with my wife who had been going for the past three summers. She is an art therapist who works with survivors of the genocide. I decided to become a volunteer also, and to teach filmmaking. But thinking about how to approach a class, it made sense to start making a movie there, with the kids.

In terms of establishing a connection between a therapist and a patient, that work needs to be done in person.

I went a few times, but I felt there was no way that any therapist could understand my particular torment and also felt in some respects they were sicker than I was.

When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they’re finally going to ‘change’ themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.

You know, I keep getting cast as douchebags. I might speak to my therapist about that.

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.

Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.

If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists – things they actually need and can make use of.

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It’s nothing fancy – just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.

In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned ‘Scooterman’ and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it’s like, everything that I don’t really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

We’re all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven’t been caught yet.

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

On the song ‘Buried Alive,’ it’s almost like the instrumental is a therapist.

I am a psycho therapist and I used to teach street children.

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.

Billie doesn’t actually like recording sessions at all. We like making music together. She doesn’t like going to some big studio and having them pretend to be a therapist for a couple hours. So by default, we always make the good stuff together.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist’s couch.

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called ‘Inhale,’ taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that’s how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

I go to a therapist every week.

I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.

It’s incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It’s about understanding myself. Sometimes I’ll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It’s become part of my routine.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

If you don’t have a massage therapist on hand, then a foam roller can do the work instead.

I’m realizing that my childhood is not my daughter’s, that I can’t heal myself by any actions I take with her – and that it’s definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood… with my therapist.

I see a therapist, I cry a lot.

Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.

I found ways to maintain my performance through working with professionals and doing things that other people weren’t doing. Later in my career, I had a great physical therapist who kept me out on the track. We were doing innovative things like ice baths back in the early ’80s when everyone else thought it was crazy.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn’t understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

I don’t want to be some extreme therapist. Although seeing someone’s life change for the better is a really moving thing.

I call my therapist every other day. It’s not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

I used to think, ‘Oh, I can fix him. I can be his therapist. I can be what he needs.’ But what I’ve learned is that you can’t take ownership for how they’re feeling, no matter how badly you want to.

I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.

My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.

When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you’re rich.

India is abundant in ayurveda, yoga, meditation, holistic wellness, therapists, energy healers, natural and chemical-free skincare, haircare organic foods and more.

Any therapist can give you the expertise of their education, but we all know there’s that person in our lives that’s been like, ‘Hey, one time I did this thing,’ and that will stay with you for so much longer than the stuff that probably should, because it’s from direct experience.

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political – everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn’t, then forget it.

I once had a therapist fall asleep on me. That really wrecks your self-esteem.

I think everybody I’ve seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it’s very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They’re not really interested in the person; he doesn’t relate to the person.

My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up – and I’m that person for sure.

I’ve always been the locker-room jokester, the fun guy, the guy who keeps it loose and easy. But also, on Sundays, the guy in that huddle jumping up and down, telling guys, ‘Hey, get it going. Let’s go.’ Firing everybody up. So I’m part relaxation therapist and part Red Bull.

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.

Years ago, I met once a week, 9 A.M. sharp, with a therapist whom I will call Dr. Mason. We would settle in well-worn chairs, Dr. Mason, a slender, balding middle-ager in blazer and striped tie, and me, an anxious academic in Levi’s and tweeds.

The only real experiences I’ve had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my family when my mother was ill.

When I was 20-something, 30, I fell down a flight of stairs and hurt my back. I went to a therapist who said don’t get out of bed until you do certain stretches, and I’ve been doing them ever since. I guess I’m the original yogi.

I would love to do the therapist on ‘Two and a Half Men’ again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

With ‘Little Accidents’, I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological makeup of what happens when you have a stroke or what carbon monoxide poisoning does to your body.

I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, ‘What is a stroke?’ I didn’t really know. It’s okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

I’m so unqualified to be a family therapist.

There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men – positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad – when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family’s been hurt, somebody’s going to die. I’m sure a therapist would go, ‘That’s not a good way to live,’ but every time it’s not that bad thing, I’m so thankful and appreciative.

There’s nothing like seeing your floor clear because you organized and cleared the space of all that clutter. That’s how I feel when I go to my therapist.

When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist – it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

I would have loved to have been a psychiatrist or therapist.

No success will ever quench your thirst – my rich person’s therapist told me that.

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents’ influence on me. I’ve talked to a therapist,; I’ve looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I’m a Sagittarius. Please don’t make me reveal more than that. It’s tough enough as it is.

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will also push you to do precisely the things that scare you.

Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.

I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

Old-school guys, they don’t need to see the doctor, the massage therapist. We’d come in when we was 21; we’d go right to the court and start shooting.

I felt like, honestly, seeing a therapist was kind of weak. But it helps. It helps a whole lot, because it allows you to decompress and restart.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

My therapist was like, ‘What brings joy to your heart?’ And I was like, ‘I like to see teeth. I guess maybe I should have been a dentist.’

Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won’t make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, ‘You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,’ the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.

Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.

My therapist says I still haven’t got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I’m going to explode. But I’m still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I’m on now.

Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt ‘very understood.’

There is no ‘ultimate goal of therapy.’ Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

Alternative therapists don’t kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

My goal is to become a therapist by the time I’m 50.

I see a therapist once, twice a week sometimes.

A physical therapist does some unbelievable stretching with me.

I’ve been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that’s obsessed with one thing, unless it’s, like, jeans, it’s very dangerous. Everyone’s obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It’s ridiculous.

I didn’t never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren’t an entertainer.

I’ve been to therapists my whole life.

My daughter Mira’s first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

A massive thank you also goes to everyone at the SFA for looking after me since I was a young boy, including Frank Reilly, Doc McLean, Jonesy, managers, coaches, staff, the physios, massage therapists, kit men and the media staff I’ve worked with over the years.

You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you’re trying to help people, and it can be draining.

I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, ‘More than you know.’