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 have to say I have an amazing therapist. She’s my best friend for life. She’s taught me how to balance everything out.
My generation are the neurotic ones. Therapists’ offices all over the world are full of patients blaming their parents for their own failings.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
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.
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.
Back then, people thought if you could talk you didn’t have autism. I was just seen as this slightly odd child. I saw another therapist aged 12, and another in my early 30s.
My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then… never judge.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
I am a psycho therapist and I used to teach street children.
I’m considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.
I think music can be therapeutic and a really positive thing, but that seeing a therapist is the best form of therapy you can get.
I don’t know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren’t an entertainer.
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.
The idea is to improve somebody’s day. That’s how I’ve always viewed my job. I’m a distraction therapist. I make people’s problems go away for just a little bit.
I’d make a terrible therapist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thieves don’t usually make good therapists.
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.
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.
Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find ‘seeing’ a therapist acceptable.
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
‘Gypsy’ follows a New York therapist, played by Naomi Watts. It explores the boundaries between patient and doctor – she kind of starts to play puppeteer with her clients.
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.
Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn’t tell their therapist.
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.
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.
I would love to do the therapist on ‘Two and a Half Men’ again or just work with Charlie Sheen.
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.
A therapist might suggest my generosity is a way of buying affection. But buying people’s love has never been an issue for me. Generally speaking, I don’t want their love.
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
I’ve always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone’s problems.
I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to ‘teach’ or ‘convert’ people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a ‘therapist’ in the pulpit.
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 do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person – you are a different person. It’s superficial change that can lead to real change.
If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists – things they actually need and can make use of.
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.
I’ve seen a therapist at different points in my life for different reasons.
