The emotive.energy Substack offers posts, notes and podcasts that focus on embodiment theory, practice & application—bridging neuroscience, somatics, psychology and systems thinking for practical use in work and life.
emotive.energy is a research-driven, embodiment-based co-op that consults with leaders, teams and organizations to hone the skills needed in the chaotic modern world. We help people employ and expand their emotional agility, while navigating pitfalls from organizational dysfunction and burnout.
Stephen Buehler, MA, MFT is a psychotherapist, consultant, and crisis response expert with 30+ years of experience across healthcare, mental health, nonprofits, high-pressure consulting and legal environments, and fast-moving, unstructured creative and sales-driven sectors. As a founding member of emotive.energy, Stephen supports leaders, teams, and organizations in building emotional agility, responding skillfully to disruption, addressing burnout, and realigning around purpose and shared values. Stephen also hosts the emotive.energy podcast, where dancers, scientists, doctors, clowns, coaches, athletes, and everyday people explore how emotion and impulse shape the way we feel, live, work, and relate.
20,000+ hours of consultation with healthcare leaders, teams and providers on team wellness, collaboration, workplace bullying, community disasters and organizational crisis
20+ years providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, groups, families; expert in disaster mental health & crisis response
300+ critical incidents and community disasters, leading just-in-time emotional support and follow-up care for affected leaders, doctors, nurses and teams
25+ years of engaged development in embodied, relational, and experiential forms of counseling psychology— with deep focus and passion for Gestalt Psychotherapy, Formative Psychology®, family systems theory, play therapy and psychodynamic thought
Lifelong immersion in athletics, yoga, movement, and somatic practices—including lived experience with degenerative disease and chronic pain—integrating body awareness at both gross and subtle levels
Stephen Buehler
