Existential Therapy

Key Points:

• Existential Tradition
• Capacity of Self-Awareness
• Freedom and Responsibility
• Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others
• Search for Meaning
• Anxiety as a Condition of Living
• normal anxiety
• neurotic anxiety
• Awareness of  Death and Non-being

Therapeutic Goals:
 Increased awareness is the central goal of existential therapy, which allows clients to discover that alternative possibilities exist where none were recognized before.
Techniques:

1. Therapists assist clients in identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world. 
2. Clients are assisted in more fully examining the source and authority of their present values. 
3. Focus on helping people take what they are learning about themselves and put it into action.