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When you ask people for help, most people give you advice. Advice is when someone tells you what they would do. And since you’re not that person, it’s rarely useful to hear what they would do. You want to know what you should do.
Counsel, on the other hand, is when someone helps you figure out what you think. Counsel is invaluable because it helps... See more
Counsel, on the other hand, is when someone helps you figure out what you think. Counsel is invaluable because it helps... See more
Once when I was considering the philosophical value of therapy to my therapist (I know), he told me he realized early on in his career that he was the only well-regulated person most of his clients spoke to on a regular basis. I never forgot that.
Heidi Priebe 🏃♀️ is in motionx.comTherapists 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.
Irvin D. Yalom
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Dr. Linda Bermanx.comfelt that I could, with her help, work out my next steps. I felt she could help me understand what it would mean to me and my baby to adopt or to be a single parent. She was a gifted counselor. My relief was enormous. This woman had a clarifying effect on me. I could focus in her presence. I knew she could help me, step by step, to get through this
... See moreChrisann Brennan • The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs
One of a therapist’s chief functions—though rarely taught or discussed—is to offer clients a credible vision of how great their life can be.
This makes a therapist who’s witnessed spiritual and material abundance like 1000x more effective than one who hasn’t.
Dr. Gena Gorlin