Open Up With These Thoughtful Counseling Quotes

Open up with these thoughtful counseling quotes.

We all need it sometimes.

Sometimes we get counseling from close family members, friends, or people we admire.

Some people find counseling to be a healthy and transformational experience.

Other people find it invasive and do not see its benefits.

Tell us your favorite counseling quote in the comment section below.

What are the benefits of reading these counseling quotes?

Quality counseling can have a powerful impact on individuals.

Keeping an open mind to new ideas is essential anytime we want to grow.

Counseling can be an opportunity for us to do some honest assessments of our lives and how we feel.

Some situations in life are complex, and nobody has all the answers.

Counseling can help people have healthy lives.

Counseling has been around for a long time.

Since humans have gathered together, we have provided:

• insight
• life experience
• wisdom
• advice
• counseling

Check these awesome counseling quotes out, and let us know which one you think is your favorite.

Counseling quotes and sayings

1. “I have a background in counseling because I’ve been to a lot of therapy.” — Bobby Berk

2. “Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on.” — Irvine Welsh

3. “Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.” — Carol Welch

4. “If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.” — Jack Adams

5. “If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.” — Alan Thicke

6. “You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you’re going to die.” — Chuck Grassley

7. “It lessened some of the suffocating weight I carried by finally opening up to a counselor.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout, If There’s No Tomorrow

8. “I’ve learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I’ve made; I’ve understood why I made them.” — Farrah Abraham

9. “Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release.” — Laura Wasser

10. “I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn’t make another person feel loved.” — Gary Chapman

Counseling quotes about change

11. “Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

12. “Consequently, they set store by a set of interventions in addition to the counselling relationship.” — Nelson-Jones

13. “Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else.” — Anonymous

14. “I went to a counselor for years, and it wasn’t the kind of counseling to help you – it was the ‘Let’s make you straight’ type – but counsellors can help.” — Manny Mua

15. “Counseling involves helping people facilitate uncomplicated, or normal, grief to a healthy adaptation to the tasks of mourning within a reasonable time frame.” — Worden

16. “If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn’t pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.” — Tucker Max

17. “Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.” — Barton Gellman

18. “I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.” — Lindsay Wagner

19. “In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.” — Jim Costa

Counseling quotes for clients

20. “It is not a matter of their motives, but it is a matter of their commitment to biblical counseling.” — Jay E. Adams

21. “Attempts to differentiate between counselling and psychotherapy are never wholly successful.” — Nelson-Jones

22. “The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again.” — Rasmenia Massoud

23. “But because they (wrongly) use the title “Christian counselors” they deceive many -often including themselves.” — Jay E. Adams

24. “This book is about the suffering and the hope, the anxiety and the satisfaction, with which each therapist’s counseling room is filled.” — Rogers

25. “Counselling psychologists are constantly invited to reflect on their practice as inevitable series of contesting possibilities, rather than a series of rights and wrongs.” — Gillon

26. “If counseling is a process of discovery and recovery, then grace is essential to help clients experience enough safety to explore the hidden places of their lives.” — Mark R. McMinn

27. “Most counsellors would regard the counselling relationship as neither sufficient in itself nor sufficiently expeditious in its outcome for constructive client changes to occur.” — Nelson-Jones

28. “One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that’s a real common mistake that we make.” — Max Lucado

29. “We know from experience and the growing body of supportive literature […] that the therapeutic relationship a counselor forms with each client can be the most powerful tool for helping clients change.” — Cochran & Cochran

30. “Rather than particular techniques, the far greater predictors of positives outcomes are therapeutic relationships, or counselor qualities in therapeutic relationships that capitalize on clients’ internal strengths.” — Cochran & Cochran

Counseling or counselling quotes

31. “One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, ‘suicide counseling.’” — Rafael Cruz

32. “The emergence of strength-based school counseling has provided school counselors with a highly effective tool for providing successful interventions in school settings.” — Wright

33. “A new direction for school counselors is in working within a virtual school. The online world is changing old rules about the delivery of counseling services for many students today.” — Wright

34. “The essence of the person-centred approach is that the most important influence on the progress made in the counselling session is the relationship between the counsellor and the client.” — Kidd

35. “The problems clients present career counsellors with often overlap with deeper personal concerns, and as the counselling process unfolds these emerge, complicating the initial picture.” — Kidd

36. “The exact beginning of the counseling profession is unknown, but its roots may be found in a range of helping relationships that have spanned cultures and societies throughout the ages.” — Schmidt

37. “Everyone has their own individual flaws and blocks, and career counsellors should receive appropriate individual or group supervision to ensure that these do not adversely affect their work.” — Nathan & Hill

38. “While you, as counselor, may become relaxed and more at ease in the work, you must continue to feel and respond to your clients’ emotion with active compassion. The best and most efficient counseling is ‘heartfelt’.” — Cochran & Cochran

39. “Analyses indicate that career counseling is effective in strengthening career decision-making confidence, lessening career indecision, bolstering secondary school student engagement, and increasing work satisfaction.” — Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey

40. “Therapy and counseling can do wonderful things for people. But they have emerged so far as what are sometimes called ‘cottage industries’ – that is, as individuals or small groups offering generally quite expensive services to a few clients.” — Alain de Botton

41. “My parenting philosophy pretty much boils down to this: I love my kids; I tolerate yours. Mine just make common, age-appropriate mistakes – phases, let’s call them – while your kids are completely undisciplined and probably need counseling.” — Colin Cowherd

42. “Counsellors may have different goals with different clients. They may assist clients, for instance, to heal past emotional deprivations, manage current problems, handle transitions, make decisions, manage crises, and develop specific lifeskills.” — Nelson-Jones

43. “And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you’re going to repeat it; and if you’re burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don’t get it, you’re missing the whole point.” — Michael Berryman

44. “It’s incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, ‘I’m not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have with my mother.’ Or say, ‘Your book made me think a lot about my parents, and I’ve decided to sign up for counseling.’ That is mind-boggling.” — Celeste Ng

45. “Career counselors offering counseling-based career assistance do not view their clients as the problem and the counselor as the solution. Rather, they seek to empower clients to articulate their experiences, clarify their self-concepts, and construct their own lives.” — Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey

46. “If you’re going to counsel people – and that’s all my ministry is, it’s a counseling ministry more than anything else – people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you’re going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.” — Robert H. Schuller

47. “Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.” — Gerald Chertavian

Carl Rogers counseling quotes

48. “What is most personal is most universal.” — Carl R. Rogers

49. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl R. Rogers

50. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” — Carl R. Rogers

Mental health services are important

President John F. Kennedy was one of the first to openly endorse the movement to normalize counseling in nationwide communities by signing the Mental Health Act in 1963.

This law transformed how mental health services were implemented nationwide.

Even with an infrastructure to serve the public, getting people to use these services is another story.

Most people who have a mental illness will not receive treatment.

The fact is, people will forego mental health treatment for many reasons.

Anything from doubt, pride, fear, judgment, or lack of awareness can cause a person not to seek treatment.

It is human to fear the unknown, so this is understandable.

Other people doubt how efficient any form of mental health therapy can be.

While these perspectives are valid and have merit, sometimes opening up to someone and opening up to counseling can be the experience we need to be ourselves fully.

Check out this article if you have concerns about finding a counselor.

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