Steven Wolhandler, JD, MA, LPC is an international expert on managing the toxic and abusive people that he calls Emotional Predators (a.k.a. narcissists, sociopaths, etc.). Steven knows how abusive and manipulative people prey on the emotions of good people – and how good people can protect themselves. He has been learning about abusers and manipulators – Emotional Predators – professionally since 1984, first as an attorney, then as a psychotherapist, mediator, arbitrator, and family court custody evaluator and neutral between parents, and for over a decade as a consultant and author. He has helped hundreds of people learn the true nature of the problem of toxic people, why traditional approaches and normal reactions make things worse, and practical effective ways to neutralize them.Steven Wolhandler, JD, MA, LPC is an international expert on managing the toxic and abusive people that he calls Emotional Predators (a.k.a. narcissists, sociopaths, etc.). Steven knows how abusive and manipulative people prey on the emotions of good people – and how good people can protect themselves. He has been learning about abusers and manipulators – Emotional Predators – professionally since 1984, first as an attorney, then as a psychotherapist, mediator, arbitrator, and family court custody evaluator and neutral between parents, and for over a decade as a consultant and author. He has helped hundreds of people learn the true nature of the problem of toxic people, why traditional approaches and normal reactions make things worse, and practical effective ways to neutralize them.