Helping Individuals to Live Meaningful, Free & Authentic Lives

What you'll learn

- How to help people find a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives

- The central theories and concepts underpinning different approaches to Existential Therapy (ET)

- A wide variety of therapeutic activities and techniques from the different branches of Existential Therapy

- The historical development of different approaches to Existential Therapy

- Theories & practices associated with Logotherapy, Existential-Humanistic Therapy & Existential-Phenomenological Therapy

- The implications of phenomenology for the clinical practice: the importance of subjectivity & inter-subjectivity

- How to guide those with whom you work towards more authentic, free, and empowered modes of living

- Recent developments in Existential Therapy such as Existential Positive Psychology & Positive Psychology 2.0

- Possible avenues for integrating ideas from Existential Therapy with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

- Existentially-informed techniques, approaches, and practices to use in your professional practice

This course serves as a comprehensive overview of the central theories and practices of contemporary Existential Therapy (ET).

Whilst the course may also be of interest to non-professionals with a personal interest in psychology and philosophy: specialist academic language is used throughout the course and it is pitched at a postgraduate level; it is mainly intended for mental health professionals and refers to therapeutic techniques and strategies throughout.

This course focuses on outlining, describing, and explaining the central concepts, theories, and practices of Existential Therapy: it does not pretend to present a particularly critical or evaluative analysis, it does not explore the evidential basis of existential therapy nor does it attempt to 'sell you' Existential Therapy. Critical appraisal of the value of existential therapy is something I will leave to you.

Who this course is for:

- Psychotherapists

- Clinical Psychologists

- Counselors

- Psychiatrists

- Life Coaches

- Pastoral Workers

- Mental Health Professionals (e.g. Mental Health Nurses)

- Students of Psychology & Philosophy