Existential Counselling is a mindful and unpretentious approach to talking therapy.
It combines the constructive, forward looking approach of cognitive therapy, the respectful person centred tradition and the depth of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
The focus is on individual experience and understanding this within the context of the challenges and paradoxes of life and living.
The approach understands human beings as creatures of continual change and transformation, with personal strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and limitations. These are formed by the physical, personal, social and spiritual dimensions of existence.
Meaning and value is explored with the aim of being true to oneself and living responsibly whilst at the same time understanding the consequences of our ideas and beliefs on our own and others lives.
Counselling is by its nature challenging but also ultimately respectful of a person’s unique way of understanding and living their life. The goal of therapy is authentic living; that is, living deliberately rather than by default.
Even a slight change of perspective on our problems can make an emormous difference; understanding can stustain.
For further explantation view existential therapy