Why I Cherish Therapy

Sometimes it breaks my heart when people believe that therapists just do it for the money. In truth, therapists are often very smart, but choose to go into a field that underpays them (I could go on an entire rant about that, but I’ll leave that for another day) because they feel an inherent value to the work that they do. Carl Rogers, an influential therapist for founding Humanistic Psychology, wrote in his book, A Way of Being, “I feel enriched when I can truly prize or care for or love another person and when I can let that feeling flow out to that person.” That is why I do this work, because I am getting paid to share my unconditional positive regard, or my innate love, for the souls of others, and it fills me up to do so. In the therapy office, there doesn’t need to exist any barriers to sharing that care and tenderness for another. I adore that space, and there is no price I can put on the value of that privilege.

“I feel enriched when I can truly prize or care for or love another person and when I can let that feeling flow out to that person.”

~ A Way of Being, by Carl Rogers