'Mumford' is the name of a little town, which must be full of 'wacky' people that it manages to keep its three full time therapists comfortably and gainfully thriving in their practice. Actually the people really are normal. These are people of the '90s, so lacking in real problems that they need to invent some.

The third therapist is a new guy in town, oddly named Mumford too, but his devoted patients call him Doc. Doc Mumford sits around and listens instead to the fantasies of a lovelorn pharmacist, a shopaholic, and the town's skateboarding millionaire-whiz kid who just needs someone to talk to because just about everyone in Mumford works for his incredibly successful company and, he feels, aren't honest with him.

And Hope Davis who plays Sophie seems to be the only patient Doc has with a legitimate problem, suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome, as well as his potential love interest. Mumford's way with patients, however, has little to do with training (or rather lack of it). His talent is listening - rare in a day when people mostly talk - and replying with common sense.

Loren Dean plays Mumford, and he plays his character out with a delicate pacing, allowing us to slowly understand and appreciate him for who and what he is. But then Doc Mumford is certainly not who he shows himself out to be. In fact, he has a secret far bigger than the ones his patients who lie on his couch to pour their heart to him.