两所母校威斯康辛大学和芝加哥大学，曾分别为她颁授荣誉博士学位及“对人类杰出的贡献”金质奖章;举世知名的心理治疗师和家庭治疗师，被《人类行为杂志》（Human Behavior）誉为“每个人的家庭治疗大师”;提出著名的萨提亚冰山理论(萨提尔模式-冰山与四种应对姿态）。

名言

1.Goals for me, I want to love you without clutching; Appreciate you without judging; Join you without invading; Invite you without demanding; Leave you without guilt; Criticize you without blaming; And help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly met and enrich each other.

我和你的目标-我想爱你而不用抓住你； 欣赏你而不须批判你； 和你齐参与而不会伤害你；邀请你而不必强求你 ；离开你亦无须内疚；批评你但并非责备你；并且帮助你而没有半点看低你， 那么我俩的相会就是真诚的而且能彼此润泽。

2.We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

我们因相似而在一起，却因为差异而成长。

3.Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

只有在欣赏个体差异、容忍错误、沟通开放、规则灵活的氛围中，价值感才会蓬勃发展——这种氛围存在于养育子女的家庭中。

4.I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

我希望你能对你是谁，你是什么，你拥有什么，以及你还能做什么感到兴奋。我想激励你看到你可以远远超越你现在所处的位置。

5.Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

沟通之于关系，犹如呼吸之于生命。

6.I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

我相信我能想到的从任何人那里得到的最大礼物，就是被他们看到，听到，被他们理解和触动。

7.People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

比起不确定性的痛苦，人们更喜欢确定的痛苦

8.Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

你对生活事件的反应比事件本身更重要。