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Existential Psychotherapy is partly based on the existential belief
that human beings often feel alone in the world or that their life is
meaningless. This feeling of aloneness leads to feelings of despair,
which can be overcome by creating one's own values and meanings.
Existential psychotherapy suggests that in making our own
choices we assume full responsibility for the results in our lives.
This therapy helps to take the blame off of others and helps one feel
like less of a victim. Though Existential therapy, the client can
become empowered and learn to create a desired life and a sense of
happiness. This type of therapy
helps clients along a path to discover why the the client is
overburdened by the anxieties of aloneness and
meaninglessness, to find new and better ways to manage these anxieties,
to make new and healthy choices, and to emerge from therapy as a free
and sound human being. Existential therapy guides the client to take
responsibility and willingness for situations in life. It helps the
client to see that there are great possibilities and choices that can
be made that were previously unseen. The client may reflect upon
life's questions were answered in the past, but attention ultimately
shifts
to searching for a new and increased awareness in the present and
enabling a new freedom and responsibility to act. The client can then
create life as a new adventure and transformative, hopeful experience.
This type of therapy can help with depression, feelings of being stuck
and lost, life transitions, anxiety, grief, loneliness, insecurity,
identity confusion, and sense of self issues. Through analysis,
reflection, verbal processing, and reframing, there can be a more
authentic and honest understanding of the Self. Though this work,
healing, transformation, and a sense of meaning can arise.
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