Existential Therapy

With personal experience navigating life's meaning and purpose, I specialize in existential therapy to help clients confront life's big questions—identity, freedom, isolation, and mortality. I provide a safe space to explore these existential concerns, empowering you to find clarity and meaning in your life. My approach blends empathy and insight to guide you toward authentic living, helping you make conscious choices that align with your values, creating a deeper sense of fulfillment and peace.

Existential Therapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning. This approach often centers on you rather than on the symptom you are experiencing. The approach emphasizes your capacity to make rational choices and to develop to your maximum potential.

My existential approach guides you to explore meaning, freedom, and personal values through open dialogue and reflection. Together, we confront uncertainty, clarify purpose, and cultivate a more authentic sense of self in the face of life’s complexities.

Especially in this political and social climate, anxiety, dread, and depression can be attributed to the human condition; that is, being a human in this deeply imperfect world is bound to bring with it anxieties, worries, and a sense of loneliness sometimes. Viewing it as a normal, although unpleasant, part of life can help to shift the narrative from pathology, to a temporary feeling that we can use to explore these emotions and how they impact us globally.

We're all going to die. (Yeah, I know). No but like, really. We are. At one point we didn't exist and at some point we will again not exist. In the meantime, what do we do with that? Is it motivating? Paralyzing? Somewhere in the middle? Let's go there. Let's dive in.

I think we all have big questions of why we are here and what our purpose is. Let's dig in deep and find what your purpose is and what makes you tick. And shocking - it might not be in your career path. Let's work on creating a life of healing and how to really enjoy this world in the capacity that it is.

It is always a good time to work on existential concerns and to prepare for future life stages. Such work softens the present moment and expands the quality of life. I am also a passionate plant person and work with plant and mineral essences in my practice. Further, I am trained as a hypnotherapist and doula and have a clear calling to support people through transitional times in life.

I am an eclectic therapist and draw on multiple approaches to provide therapy tailored to each patient's needs and priorities, with a focus on trauma healing, existential therapy, psychodynamic/attachment therapy, and liberation psychology. I have an academic background in existential and classical philosophy.

I love working within existential therapy and helping people identify their values and goals in life, and how to live by those. I believe it is important to find purpose and meaning in life that helps us to keep going when times are tough.

I want to help clients find and make meaning and purpose in their lives. I am honest with clients about harsh realities of the human experience in the interest of helping clients come to terms with them and become their most authentic and free selves.

Providing existential therapy, I help entrepreneurs explore deeper meaning and purpose in their lives. Existential therapy focuses on addressing life’s big questions, embracing freedom, and finding personal responsibility. My approach empowers clients to navigate stress, burnout, and self-doubt while aligning their actions with core values, fostering resilience, clarity, and a greater sense of fulfillment.

A fan of Abraham Maslow, I view client experience as one that, cultural contexts aside, has universal elements across all people when it comes to issues of purpose and meaning, life, esteem, aging, and death.

My focus in graduate school (and prior) was in existential theory, and I see the counseling process as one steeped in meaning, finding agency, seeking authenticity & aligning values, considering how life experiences shape a person, accepting anxiety & mortality as part of life & exploring ways to live with that through practices like mindfulness & acceptance techniques, and asking questions which encourage growth. In this way, I do not ask of others that which I do not ask of myself.

"Those that have a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'" - Friedrich Nietzsche I draw great inspiration from prominent figures that have positively impacted the existential approach. Viktor Frankl, Irvin Yalom, and Emmy van Deurzen are a few individuals that have impacted my own approach to mental wellness.

I have been interested in the meaning of life since I first read Man's Search For Meaning 30 years ago. As a cancer patient, I have had a lot of time to consider my own purpose, and I think most people at some point (or many points) in their lives have moments where they contemplate what this all means. I love helping my clients explore the existential concerns of death, freedom, isolation, and meaning.

Existential therapy is all about looking for meaning, purpose, and exploring identity. Who are we? What are we doing here? What's it all for? If you're asking questions like these, existential therapy is for you.

An existential approach to therapy emphasizes the importance of the meaning that each person makes in life and that the path that one takes can only be understood in the context of their unique life experience. This means that the questions, "Who am I?" and "What is the meaning of life" is a personal journey that, ultimately, only the individual can discover for themselves.

I have a deep appreciation for the place of meaning in human life.

At the core of human experience are fundamental questions about responsibility, freedom, life and death, and meaning. My approach connects client experiences to these questions.