The Book

Co-founder of The Couples Institute, and trainer of couple’s therapists in 96 countries.

Every conscientious therapist seeks to be more effective with their clients. This is a rare book that will make you a better therapist -AND give you an avenue to increase your income.

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It takes enormous creativity to generate so many insightful questions about key areas of our client's lives. The authors have nailed it. Their key questions illuminate hidden paths to greater wisdom and richer lives. You can now glean their wisdom from decades of private practice to enrich your client’s lives – and your own. They are selling clinical diamonds for pennies. Get it now. You and your clients will profit enormously.

Co-authors, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

Stories about ourselves, how we lived in the past, what is happening in the present, and how we see our future, are the essence of the human imagination. Using those stories to understand ourselves at a deep level and to see our life trajectory and potential is the creative contribution of Uncovering Treasures That Matter. We recommend this innovative process to therapists who want to experiment with something new and to clients who want to make deeper sense of their life experience.

Co-creator of Voice Dialogue
Author, The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back

At my age of 85, I find myself increasingly fascinated by the arc of each individual life! For me, each narrative is unique and priceless - and to be treated as the treasure that it is. I see Dr. Bernell and Dr. Svensson’s book as providing a thought-provoking collection of what I would call life prompts. These questions and suggestions provide a variety of ways to begin exploring the arc of your own life, to discover your own treasure, and to work creatively with your own unique narrative.

Licensed Psychologist and host of the SuperPsyched Podcast

Between the covers of this beautiful book, Drs. Bonnie Bernell and Cheryl Svensson give the reader access to a vast and all too frequently overlooked gift: a straightforward, enlivening way to an examined life. Like midwives to our lives and their meaningful moments, they provide easy-to-follow, lighthearted, and sensitizing prompts, assignments, and tools that each of us can use to view, review, and deepen our life experiences and their meaning. Their tools invite and encourage us to zoom out and into our lives in a way we would not organically discover without their wise stewardship. As a clinician and a person who wants to look at the treasures of my life, I am grateful for this guide to examine our lives, the treasures/the stories that matter most. Open this book on any page, and your life will be enhanced and enriched. Savor the experience, too.