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    Existential therapy focuses on how individuals freely choose who they are and find meaning in life. It emphasizes that people are responsible for their own choices and actions. The key concepts of existential therapy include self-awareness, freedom, responsibility, identity, relationships, meaning, and awareness of death. Therapists using this approach help clients accept responsibility for their lives and make their own authentic choices. The goal is for clients to gain control over their lives and define their own path.

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    Existential therapy focuses on how individuals freely choose who they are and find meaning in life. It emphasizes that people are responsible for their own choices and actions. The key concepts of existential therapy include self-awareness, freedom, responsibility, identity, relationships, meaning, and awareness of death. Therapists using this approach help clients accept responsibility for their lives and make their own authentic choices. The goal is for clients to gain control over their lives and define their own path.

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    Existential therapy focuses on how individuals freely choose who they are and find meaning in life. It emphasizes that people are responsible for their own choices and actions. The key concepts of existential therapy include self-awareness, freedom, responsibility, identity, relationships, meaning, and awareness of death. Therapists using this approach help clients accept responsibility for their lives and make their own authentic choices. The goal is for clients to gain control over their lives and define their own path.

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    Krislyn Antonellis March 13, 2017

    EXISTENTIAL THERAPY
    We Are What We Choose To Be

    Theory
    • More of a way of thinking

    • An attitude about
    psychotherapy

    • A philosophical approach

    • No specific techniques

    Founders
    • Not founded by one person
    or group Nature of Persons
    Existential Therapy embraces human potential while recognizing
    • Influenced by many
    philosophers human limitation. Looking at the here and now, Existential
    Therapists believe we are free and responsible for our choices and
    • Soren Kierkegaard, actions; we are the authors of our lives.
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin
    Heidegger, Martin Buber, The basic dimensions of the human condition:
    Ludwig Binswanger,
    Medard Boss, Jean-Paul 1.The capacity for self-awareness- freedom, choice, responsibility
    Satre
    2.Freedom and responsibility- free to choose among alternatives
    • Key figures in Contemporary
    3.Striving for identity and relationship to others- create a self that
    Existential Therapy
    has meaning
    • Viktor Frankl, Rollo May,
    Irvin Yalom, James 4.The search for meaning- challenge the meaning in their lives
    Bugental
    5.Anxiety as a condition of living- unavoidable result of being
    Logotherapy confronted with the "givens of existence" (death, freedom,
    choice, isolation, meaninglessness)
    Viktor Frankl- therapy through
    6.Awareness of death and nonbeing- death provides the
    meaning- life has meaning
    motivation for us to appreciate the present moment

    Existential Therapy 1
    Krislyn Antonellis March 13, 2017

    Role of the Counselor Model of Mental Health


    Clients are encouraged to find meaning and purpose in their lives.
    • Do not focus on client's past
    The emphasis of therapy is not on past events, though the past is
    • Work with client to discover taken into consideration in order to understand its implications.
    and explore their choices Existential therapy believes that you are not defined by your
    history, that you are not destined to have a certain future, which
    • Invite client to accept
    responsibility offers liberation and promotes freedom.

    • Help clients reclaim and reown


    their lives

    • "Create your own authentic


    Model of Emotional
    way of being attuned to your
    clients" Disturbance
    References Clients with restricted existence have a limited awareness of
    themselves and are not very clear on the nature of their problems.
    • Corey, G. (2013). Theory and Because of this, they see few options in dealing with life situations
    Practice of Counseling and and feel stuck.
    Psychotherapy (9th Ed.)
    Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. Existential therapy works well for clients interested in self-
    examination, clients with concerns about issues of living, and
    • Existential Psychotherapy. clients who are terminally ill, struggling with anxiety, depression,
    (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, substance dependency, post traumatic stress, or facing transitions.
    2017, from http://
    www.goodtherapy.org/learn-
    about-therapy/types/
    existential-psychotherapy Counseling Process
    • Existential therapy. (n.d.).
    Clients are encouraged to address the emotional issues they face
    Retrieved March 11, 2017,
    through full engagement. They are expected to take responsibility
    from http://www.counselling-
    for their decisions and are given skills necessary to accept and
    directory.org.uk/existential
    overcome their fears through actions.
    • Existential Therapy. (n.d.).
    Through therapy, clients will gain control of the direction of their
    Retrieved March 11, 2017,
    lives, designing their own life's course and embracing it, as well as
    from http://www.existential-
    existing in it. Life is a journey, in which the client is the author.
    therapy.com/

    • Existential Therapy. (n.d.).


    Retrieved March 11, 2017, "The meaning of life, is to give life meaning."
    from https://
    www.pinterest.com/ Viktor Frankl
    sallykuhlenschm/existential-
    therapy/
    Existential Therapy 2

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