Welcome to the world of therapy quotes, where the power of words meets the healing journey of the mind and soul. Therapy is a profound and transformative process, and sometimes, the right words can provide comfort, insight, and inspiration along the way. Whether you’re a therapist looking for impactful quotes to share with your clients, or someone on a personal journey of self-discovery and healing, you’ve come to the right place. In the following paragraphs, we’ll be sharing a curated collection of therapy quotes that can serve as a source of guidance, encouragement, and reflection. So, whether you want to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts, we invite you to explore and embrace the wisdom these quotes have to offer on your therapeutic journey.
Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata. Theophilus London
I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body. Katy Perry
I just kind of talk about what’s happening in my life and it’s kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I’ll put my own spin on it. It’s usually really collaborative and open and it’s very therapeutic for me as well. Loren Gray
I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn’t feel my body. Charles Oliveira
The ultimate goal of therapy… it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential. Irvin D. Yalom
I’m the perfect amount of guarded. I don’t reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me – who I write about too – they get it. It’s my creative outlet, my therapy. Kelly Clarkson
My therapy has come from paying attention to my life. Oprah Winfrey
I couldn’t speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense. Walter Dean Myers
This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole. David Viscott
Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span. Gregory Stock
How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace – often through no fault of their own – and then go on a show like ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ and say, ‘I want to show the public a different side of me.’ And I’m screaming at the telly going, ‘This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!’ Ricky Gervais
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy. Keanu Reeves
I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy! Dominique Jackson
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Dar Williams
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. Irvin D. Yalom
When my job isn’t performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I’m hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I’m a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot. John Cena
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It’s like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it’s part of life and part of the autobiography so I’ll have to finish it sooner or later. Jenni Rivera
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn’t. It’s called the ‘nocebo’ effect. Bruce Lipton
We may define therapy as a search for value. Abraham Maslow
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn’t anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that’s a good run. Michael Weatherly
I need insulin to stay alive. It’s just therapy to keep going. What I can do is make sure that I keep my blood sugar down to a reasonable level. I can exercise, and I can eat properly. And insulin plays a very big part in that. Mary Tyler Moore
I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody’s kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too. Roseanne Barr
Fishing is my therapy. Its such a great immersion into life. Robson Green
I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn’t get it then. Nothing’s changed. Fiona Apple
Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can’t do therapy. Lil Peep
If I didn’t have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy. Ingmar Bergman
Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good. Brett Hoebel
I’m not really gay, and I can’t sit here and say that I am, because that’s not real and that’s not genuine. But I also can’t sit here and say that I’m straight. This is something I’ve come to the conclusion through therapy and from being honest with myself. I am bisexual. Shane Dawson
I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It’s therapy too, you see. Joe Arpaio
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to – I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to – because it was hard, you know, to – you can’t just lay it on friends and children. Lynn Redgrave
I’m too conceited for therapy. Glen Duncan
I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity. Lady Gaga
For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole – their mind, body, and spirit. Naomi Judd
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. Elizabeth Strout
Work is therapy for the soul. Joseph B. Wirthlin
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. Tim Burton
I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It’s about your life, the quality of your life. Philip Seymour Hoffman
I was diagnosed with OCD and depression, and that was a huge relief, because now my struggles had a name and could be reckoned with. With a combination of therapy and medication, I got better. I learned to love life again. My problems didn’t go away, but they became much easier to face. Shannon Purser
I spend a good deal of time doing, for anxiety what’s known as exposure therapy where basically you’re supposed to confront things that cause you anxiety and learn to tolerate. It’s all about learning to tolerate discomfort rather that avoiding anything that might make you feel uncomfortable. Porter Robinson
I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven more just for safety, which was stupid. I should have just worked on therapy. Abby Lee Miller
The analyst’s psyche operates as a kind of… something to hold on to while somebody’s going through therapy, if they’re deconstructing their own psyche, if that’s cracking up in some way, or dissolving. Susie Orbach
Anyone who sets foot into the ‘Watchmen’ universe and isn’t just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I’ve always considered ‘Watchmen’ to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful. J. Michael Straczynski
The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in. Victoria Coren Mitchell
Playing games can contribute to making you happy, perhaps even without therapy. Gyles Brandreth
Music is therapy for me. It’s my outlet for every negative thing I’ve ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful. Amy Lee
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me. J. Cole
I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn’t rage. I never expected to be a writer; it’s a different world than I ever expected to be in. John Trudell
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. Tony Curtis
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance. Tiger Woods
The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your ‘cognitions,’ or thoughts. A cognition refers to the way you look at things – your perceptions, mental attitudes, and beliefs. It includes the way you interpret things – what you say. about something or someone to yourself. David D. Burns
Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined. Tammy Duckworth
Tapping therapy is absolutely brilliant. Stephen Gately from Boyzone, God rest his soul, told me about it. It’s just a little tap that focuses the mind away from that wave of panic and adrenalin that shoots into your body. Michael Ball
Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. Emo Philips
Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one. Raul Julia
I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do. Bob Saget
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it’s stigmatized. Nicole Byer
I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. Jim Carrey
I tried to walk away from standup, but it’s been my therapy – my way of expressing anger, disappointments, and fears and celebrating my hopes. It helps to regulate my thought process. Damon Wayans
I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story. Irvin D. Yalom
I worked with a chiropractor who does some manual therapy, some acupuncture. The big thing is to do something on a regular basis, rather than waiting to get hurt. Rich Froning Jr.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. Joan Rivers
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. Albert Ellis
The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul. Nicholas Kristof
Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It’s a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are. Thomas Keating
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I’d heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early. Courteney Cox
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents. Sean Berdy
As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child’s pain. John Bradshaw
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine. Macklemore
Smile, it’s free therapy. Douglas Horton
I was at the bottom, man. I was in a deep, deep place. It wasn’t like I needed a little bit of medication and a couple of therapy sessions, and then we’re back. Mardy Fish
You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you’ve got to live life and not talk about life. Tracey Gold
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. Irvin D. Yalom
Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero. Martin Seligman
I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know. Al Yankovic
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations. Andrew Weil
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. Louis Nizer
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. Mary Berry
Psychodrama’ is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways. Santan Dave
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy. Bernie Siegel
Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once. Dylan Moran
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom’s side. I don’t really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety. Emma Stone
Psychoanalysis – and any good therapy – is a method of increasing one’s awareness of destiny in order to increase one’s experience of freedom. Rollo May
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. Kevin Hart
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. Dave Matthews
They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn’t do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time – once they gave it to you, you couldn’t remember how long you’d been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I’d never write again. Don Everly
If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor. Teri Garr
For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I’m not working, I’m always living in my own world, imagining characters. Eva Green
In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes. Godfrey Hounsfield
Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they’ve been there, too. People open up about their racial experiences. I feel like I’m a walking therapy session. It’s quite intense. But it means a lot to people. Daniel Kaluuya
Playing my drums is therapy. Travis Barker
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
I received many prizes of course before the Nobel Prize and this is probably the last prize I get. But I felt when I see the patient and saying they were saved by the therapy we developed, that is the most moving, and also the time I feel my life has some meaning. Tasuku Honjo
I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact. Marianne Williamson
If you have a relative who’s lost interest in everything and doesn’t get out of bed, who doesn’t care for things they used to, can’t imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don’t fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that’s right for you, or talk therapy, or something. Dick Cavett
I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life. Eva Mendes
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it. Douglas Adams
My work is therapeutic: ‘Monster’s Ball,’ ‘Woodsman’ and ‘Shadowboxer,’ because I don’t go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. Lee Daniels
You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band. Dave Grohl
You have to believe in a placebo or it won’t work, but if it works, it’s obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy. Charles Jencks