What Is Existentialism?
Existentialism is a philosophical theory that explores the concept of human existence, emphasizing the idea that a person can determine their own growth and development through the use of their free will.
Applied to the field of therapy, existentialist psychology and psychotherapy help clients come to terms with the big questions about life, like what happens when we die, and what our purpose is.
How Does Existentialist Psychology Work?
Typically, when someone is struggling to come to terms with these big questions, like the meaning of life, this tends to manifest itself in things like anxiety, fear, and worrying about the future.
In these situations, our counsellors can employ existentialist philosophical concepts to explain why you’re feeling anxious, for example, as these feelings can come out of a sense of urgency and feeling of being overwhelmed by our freedom to decide, and responsibility for those decisions.
At the same time, they can also use these concepts to provide perspective, helping you to see these feelings for what they are and harness the energy associated with these anxieties and fears for more constructive purposes.
So, instead of simply suppressing your anxiety, our counsellors can help you to use it as a way to inspire change, discover your purpose in life, and reach your full potential.
What Is Narrative Therapy?
Narrative therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses the power of personal stories to help patients identify their values, and the skills they have that are associated with those values. This empowers them to be confident in dealing with problems in their lives using their own abilities.
Simultaneously, narrative therapy seeks to separate clients from their problems, which allows them to externalize issues, lower their defences, and more effectively overcome issues.
How Does Narrative Therapy Work?
By objectivizing your problems, while identifying your values and skills, narrative therapy can help you to become confident in your ability to confront your problems and help you discover your purpose in life.
This involves you being assigned the role of narrator in your own personal story and telling the stories of whatever issues you’re facing, placing them within the larger sociocultural context, and allowing you to see them from different angles.
This modality is based on several key principles, including the idea that you experience reality by interacting with others, make sense of these interactions through stories, interpret those experiences with language, and that you and another person can have vastly different realities of the same experience.
These principles allow our counsellors to look at problems through an anti-oppressive, social justice-focused lens, and help you separate the things you’ve been responsible for in life from the things you weren’t responsible for, allowing you to avoid taking undue personal responsibility for things that are outside of your control, like the effects of racial marginalization.
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