The goal of this book is to provide clinicians with a new approach to psychotherapy, one that focuses on emotions directly. This is distinct from cognitions or behaviors common in CBT or insight common in psychodynamic approaches. Interventions from other therapeutic modalities can be integrated with the emotions based approach, however this offers a paradigm shift in how we think about and approach psychotherapy.  This text approaches emotions as something to be utilized and learned from as opposed to be solely regulated. This is the unique innovation of the book. There are hundreds of books on regulating or managing emotions, but few take this perspective. This is a timely and important topic as rates of psychopathology increase in the general public. Unfortunately psychotherapy has stagnated because of fractured theoretical modalities. This book offers a new way forward, with a novel perspective shift in treating mental illness where previous forms of psychotherapy have failed. The book explains this emotional approach through research in affective neuroscience, which also additionally provides corroboration for this approach. This book takes a practiced based approach to the application of emotions in psychotherapy. 

Emotion in psychotherapy is presented in a sequential manner to better help clinicians understand how they might work through a psychological problem with a patient. The process starts with the recognition of emotions. Then emotional validation is introduced, before finally helping patients to provide self-compassion for their feelings. Patients are taught how to better understand their emotions, distinguishing between past and present feelings. The benefits of recognizing and utilizing specific emotions to solve problems in psychotherapy are explained. Interventions are also provided for specific emotions, such as anger, loneliness, anxiety, jealously, compulsive desires, shame, and guilt. Additionally the book covers affect/memory reconsolidation, for trauma or deeply ingrained emotions, which changes baseline emotion states.