Existential counselling has its roots in the work of RD Laing. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he was concerned that subjective experience had got lost in the grand theories of our modern age and more and more of our miseries were being dealt with by the medical profession in clinics.
He drew heavily on the work of European existential philosophers of the last few centuries who had written about the human condition. He also immersed himself in Eastern philosophy and practice.
Bodyfullness The approach acknowledges the limitations of talking therapis alone and supports practices and disciplines that challenge a mind-centred life for more Mind – Body integration, implicit in more Eastern and Esoteric traditions.