In the process of counseling and therapy, a lot of energy is spent on: understanding the motivation for everyday choices and upcoming consequences; resolving many emotional problems and confusing interpersonal relationships; overcoming the feeling of internal chaos - making the incomprehensible and changeable positive and appropriate. Clients often say that their state is depressed, melancholy, depressive, or simply not what they would like. I offer the MAK technique, which helps to detect and restore a resource. We divide the work into three tasks, we help clarify the following: awareness of your current emotional state, formation of the desired result, search for a resource for positive correction. Below is an example of the work (with permission). Let's call the client Vasilisa, the city of Reutov , 36 years old, married 2 years. In the spring, I changed my occupation and left marketing for business consulting. The family recently overcame a long separation due to the illness of the husband's mother, the family has recently recovered, but continues to form close relationships again. V.’s income has changed, it has become partial and not constant, which also affects her emotional state. 1) Describe your state at the moment. Answer the question: What exactly in your emotional state does not satisfy you? V.’s schedule is busy, every day conducts several consultations, continues training, the whole family life is on her. At the moment, she communicates well with her husband, they began to more often find a compromise on controversial family issues. The client talks about how she finds herself tired after lunch. The first half of the day is cheerful, but after lunch you don’t want to do anything. There is anxiety with a lot of plans, there is no confidence that everything will work out. Notes that her internal state is like a loose snowball. There is a great desire to engage in devaluing her choice that she should have acted differently. This state prevents her from implementing her plans. 2) Choose 1 or 2 cards that answer the question: What state do I want to be in? Describe this condition. We work with the MAC “Tree” deck. The client says that she wants to receive more financial profit from consulting, this will give her a colorful mood and lightness. Financial help will give you the opportunity to feel free again. This state will only be possible when she regains confidence in her own abilities, that she is on the right path and will be able to cope with the task and increase her activity in finding clients, which can raise the cost of services. 3) Select VZ 1-2 cards with the question: “What of what I have will help me achieve the desired result?” “Sunny weather is what has always moved me from within, I am an optimist in life and look at life from the point of view that failure is also my experience and it is important. A decorated Christmas tree tells me that I am full of surprises, in terms of my versatility, I love playing the piano, sewing, boxing, singing and baking pies. All my interests give me a resource for tasks and work. The Christmas tree is surrounded by various objects. room, as in my life, husband, family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances. I am a sociable person and communication gives me pleasure and the chosen new profession is also about this. We work with the deck “Fateful decisions and skills” “Exact phrases. True, there is an internal conflict in me, one part says: “Why did you change your profession,” and the other, “You are on the right path, go ahead, I want to make friends with them and I also want to add childish spontaneity to life. I like both. I have a wish. I chose the right path; I simply could no longer remain in the marketing field. 4) Choose 1-2 cards that answer the question: “What do I need to learn in order to achieve the desired result?” We work with the “Allegories” deck “Believe in your desires, trust yourself, stop running away from your ideas on facing fears. How to trust yourself that everything will work out, but what if it doesn’t work out.?