After nearly getting into a fight with his ex-wife's new boyfriend, Charlie, an ex ball player turned professional therapist, decides that he needs therapy himself.
Charlie creates more problems for himself when he tries to spare the feelings of a former "slumpbuster" from his baseball days who has tracked him down.
Charlie conducts a sleep deprivation experiment on his group, which yields some very surprising results for everyone--including Charlie.
A long-standing rivalry over who's a better therapist leads to war when Kate steals Patrick, one of Charlie's group patients.
Charlie wants to "date" his ex's cute, new business partner. She believes in ghosts but not in therapy.
Charlie finds out that the woman he's dating is Kate's patient, but he has sex with her anyway. Meanwhile, he encourages his therapy group to call each other when facing moments of weakness.
Charlie is alarmed when one of his patients from his prison group is released and then becomes involved with his ex-wife Jennifer.
Charlie's habit of meddling in his patients' personal lives backfires when he tries to help Nolan out with his girlfriend.
Charlie gets an unexpected visit from his hyper-critical, bullying father, who tells him he is moving to town to be closer to him; in the therapy group, Charlie attempts to help Lacey with road rage.
