Drawing from decades of experience working in mental health, addiction, and hospital settings, Ladd has written an extraordinarily rich and useful guide to achieving emotional regulation. Emotional Regulation: Emotional Algorithms for Clients and Counselors empowers readers to systematically examine and change their emotional responses in order to bring about peaceful, fulfilling, and relationally satisfying approaches to living. By highlighting personal, emotional experience rather than diagnostic categories, the author has created a powerful guide to taking charge of life from the inside out. I highly recommend this book to clients, practitioners, and others who would like to embark on a transformative and healing emotional journey.

James T. Hansen, Oakland University

This book takes a different approach to helping people with their emotions. Instead of the authors being the experts in telling people how to discover their emotions, they set the stage for readers to explore personal emotional regulation. This seems a more worthwhile approach where empowerment, critical thinking, and a bit of self-reflection can go a long way in making a difference when people want to grow and change. I highly recommend this book for anyone who finds personal emotions an intricate part of their day.

Kyle E. Blanchfield, J.D., St. Lawrence University