Existential therapy centres are based on the quest for meaning, with a focus not on resolving the specific problems or symptoms in your life, but of searching for a larger life meaning or framework that directs your life choices, and allows you to develop to your full potential.
How does existential psychotherapy work?
Many of the issues that bring us to therapy – anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, shame – stem from our inability to make meaningful larger choices in our lives. An existential approach to analysis allows us to focus attention on these larger issues, and examine and come to terms with the larger questions that allow us to achieve greater self-awareness and understanding. These larger questions may cover such issues as where we find meaning in our lives, the sorts of life experiences that bring us joy and how we connect to something bigger than ourselves. By connecting to these larger issues, we in turn contextualise and make sense of the smaller issues that are present in all our lives.
London existential therapy
The focus of existential theory is a life-enhancing one, relating to the power of self-actualisation. Existential therapy affirms the importance of meaningful relationships, as well as the place of spirituality and transcendent experience in our lives. Its aim is to encourage patients to make conscious decisions about how they live their lives, based on an engagement with larger concerns and ultimate questions, rather than allowing their lives to be dictated by smaller anxieties and social pressures.
Contact Me
For more information on existential therapy, or to book an initial consultation at my Central London offices, please call me on: 077 1766 4177, or email me at: Justin@justinduwe.com
