In this article, we have developed a model of how emotions shape the participation of professions’ clients in episodes of jurisdictional contestation. Our theorizing contributes to the literature on professions by conceptualizing client participation in jurisdictional contestation across analytical levels; considering the role of a constellation of four intertwined social emotions in this process; and introducing a typology of five modes of client participation in jurisdictional contestation. We developed our model by drawing on empirical examples from health-related professions and, in this section, we also discuss its generalizability to work domains other than health-related ones and to other stakeholders.