PERSPECTIVES is a special feature included in this issue of the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health. This column provides mental health professionals with an opportunity to discuss their positions on a variety of creativity related topics. Here, Lawrence C. Rubin, Ph.D., ABPP, LMHC, RPT-S, professional counselor, play therapist, and professor of counseling education, shares his challenging, strength-based, popular-culture oriented, and non-pathologizing therapeutic journey with a client. Lawrence C. Rubin is the author and editor of numerous books on mental health including Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions (2008). Most recently, the author worked on the Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life: Interventions in Clinical and Medical Settings (2017). © 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.