What is Existential Counselling?
Existential counselling is a philosophical form of counselling which addresses the unique situation of a person’s life, and positions the person firmly within the predictable challenges of the human condition.
“People primarily have two basic driving forces: One is self-preservation; and the other is to exist. The former only asks to go on living; the latter asks for meaning. The former concerns itself with how to live, the latter with why to live, and the deeper meaning of being alive.”
Existential counselling considers human living to take place in confrontation with three different dimensions:
- External world
- Inner world
- Other people or characters in our lives
Some theories nominate four dimensions:
- Physical
- Social
- Psychological
- Spiritual
Each of these dimensions can be seen as constituted like a force field, within which predictable paradoxes, tensions and dilemmas play out. Human beings can learn to deal with these tensions and conflicts more effectively by developing constructive coping mechanisms to effectively deal with the negatives, as well as the positives of their lives. Existential counselling also includes tackling the tensions of life and death, love and hate, strength and weakness and meaning and absurdity.
If you feel that you or someone that you care about could benefit from existential counselling, then betterME Therapy is the right place for you.
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