Psychotherapy Quotes

Unfortunately, there is no expiration date on grief

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

Gestalt means whole, and so are you.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

Life is a purposeful action.

Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.

In one sense, all causes of a problem are 'current', although many of them represent the residue of earlier learning or unprocessed memories.

Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals

Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the age of individualism. – Richard Harvey

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.Even if the dogs are small.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)

The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.