This motivating and lively book explores the why and what of helping to illuminate the art and values of psychotherapy. Welch speaks directly to practicing helpers (and helpers-in-training with compassion and humor. While he does not focus on any specific therapeutic model, the framework is humanistic with an emphasis on the therapist/client relationship.The book, based on the author's years of counseling experience, presents material in way that pre-publication reviewers have described as mind-expanding, priceless, and compelling.