Abstract
This article provides an overview of the brain research on positive affect and emotions, and discusses the benefits of incorporating them in therapeutic conversations. Positive emotions can broaden clients' repertoire of anti-problem states, provide them with enriched preferred-selves, and facilitate an embodied access to helpful ways of being. Clinical practices to enrich collaborative therapies and tap into the power of embodied positive emotions are described along with clinical examples. Therapists are encouraged to expand their work beyond the process of helping clients address problems in their lives and into the domain of fostering clients' abilities to flourish. The benefits of this process are examined along with its limitations. Particular attention is given to the dilemmas of incorporating traditionally modernist research into post-modern therapies.
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