What is Existential Therapy?
Meaning Centered
Existential therapy has a philosophically aware approach to therapy where client's deepen their understanding of meaning, purpose, and responsibility to live a life that feels most authentic to them.
Guiding Values
An approach rooted in meaning
- Discovering ways of balancing freedom and responsibility
- Exploring meaning and purpose in life
- Observing existential givens of isolation, meaninglessness, freedom, and death
- Working towards an increased understanding of self
- Managing existential anxiety and/or death anxiety
- Therapist holds space from a person centered lens supporting clients in understanding subjective experiences and dilemmas.
"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
- Viktor Frankl, Founder of Logotherapy
