Child Counseling Quotes & Sayings

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist. — Stephen Furst

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

Loss has no friend, no allies, no benefit to the human spirit. — Asa Don Brown

The life of a child is precious. — Asa Don Brown

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life ... — Asa Don Brown

The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child. — Ryan Sayles

There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. — Asa Don Brown

The loss of my child broke my spirit. — Asa Don Brown

A child should never be made to feel that sex and/or his/her sexuality is taboo or a mistake. — Asa Don Brown

As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve. — Asa Don Brown

The individual psychotherapy patient comes to the therapist with an almost automatic deference, a sense of dependence and compliance. The role pattern is old and established: the dependent child seeking guidance from a parent figure. There is no such traditional image for the family, no established pattern in which an entire family submits to the guidance of an individual. And the family structure is simply too powerful and too crucial for the members to go trustingly into an experience that threatens to change the entire matrix of their relationships. If the family therapist is to acquire that initial "authority figure" or "parent" role that is so necessary if therapy is to be more powerful than an ordinary social experience, he has to earn it. — Augustus Y. Napier

The loss of a child exploits the emotions of each individual it encounters. — Asa Don Brown

Beyond telling and getting away however there are an awful lot of myths out there about how to move on or get justice. People may tell you to report the crime or confront you abuser- or even to forgive him. I don't necessarily advocate any of these things. I think counseling of some kind can be enormously useful, but the bottom line is that the main way to heal is to find people who will support you, to talk about what happened, and to ground yourself in the reality that the abuse was not your fault, that you have nothing to be ashamed of, and that you deserve great love and happiness in your life. — Patti Feuereisen