The Human Experience Specialist describes a new sort of helper who relies on an understanding of human nature—who humans are, what they need, and what helps them—to meet individuals in distress “where they are at.” Right now, our helping models, to include psychiatry, psychotherapy, mental health counseling, and life coaching, are insufficient. What’s needed is not another diagnostic scheme, theoretical orientation, labeling system, chemical fix, tactic, strategy, or technical intervention, but a new sort of helper, one whose stock-in-trade is wisdom. The professional groups currently empowered to help people in distress—psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, family therapists, mental health counselors, etc.—are limited in scope and attached to a flawed “mental disorder” model. This leaves a huge gap that can only be filled by a new type of practitioner, one who takes as their canvas all of life. This book describes these new helpers - human experience specialists - and paints a picture of what they know (and don’t know), what they do (and don’t do), how they are trained, and how society is likely to regard them. As a society and a world, with our epidemics of depression, anxiety, addiction, loneliness, job dissatisfaction, and existential malaise, we need more than the chemicals of psychiatry, the rah-rah of coaching, and mechanical talk of psychotherapy. We need wise helpers who understand human nature and can provide what sufferers actually need. This new helper is the human experience specialist. The Human Experience Specialist is the eleventh Volume of the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series.