The Profile Dossier: Phil Stutz, the Therapist Offering Practical Tools to Help You Navigate Life

More than thirty years ago, a little-known Harvard PhD named Dan McAdams designed a process of interviewing people about their lives as a way to understand how they developed and refined their sense of self.

first psychotherapist I’d met whose focus was on the solution, not the problem. He was absolutely confident that human beings possessed untapped forces that allowed them to solve their own problems.

“Normally, I’d leave here in a fog, not sure I’d gotten anything out of the session. Now, I leave here feeling like there’s something I can do—something practical that will help me.” For the first time in my short career, I felt able to instill hope in my patients.