Psychotherapy, as traditionally practiced and taught in graduate schools, tends to affirm emotional expressiveness, self-disclosure, and intimate relationships. For many men, that focus doesn't reflect their social conditioning, worldview, or psychological needs. Research consistently indicates that men enter psychotherapy less frequently than women and often only under duress—sent by the courts, their employers, or their spouses, intimate partners, and family members. Many men experience conflicts associated with restrictive gender-role expectations to be "real men," i.e. tough, strong, unemotional, self-controlled, and independent, which can derail many conventional psychotherapy approaches. In this workshop, we'll explore the unique emotional development of boys and men, the different ways men respond to psychotherapy, and the special psychological challenges men face, including their preoccupation with money, power, and competition, as well as their use of work, anger, isolation, substance abuse, and sexuality to mask troubling symptoms like depression and risky health behaviors. Participants will learn how to engage even the most therapy-resistant men through a highly active approach that normalizes their feelings, attitudes, and behavior as a way to construct a male-sensitive psychotherapy setting.