Existential therapy helps you stand out and affirm your existence, even within the constraints and challenges that life inevitably brings. It goes beyond surface problems and invites you to confront the most fundamental questions of human life: anxiety, despair, death, loneliness, alienation, and meaninglessness — what Yalom calls “existence pain.”

It also explores freedom, responsibility, love, and creativity. Existential therapy is an invitation to feel fully alive, expand your awareness, and make conscious choices that align with your values — choices that foster both freedom and responsibility, allowing you to create a life that feels deeply meaningful and authentic.

Unlike approaches focused only on psychological symptoms, existential therapy is rooted in philosophy. It is about helping you understand your life, your place in the world, and what it means to be, rather than simply analyzing your mind.

As D. H. Lawrence wrote:

“My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than intellect. The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.”

How can Existential Therapy Help?

Existential therapy helps you understand where you are right now and clarify where you want to go. It supports you in reconnecting with your values, finding your purpose, and defining what truly matters — what you want your life to stand for.

Through this process, you rediscover that your life deeply matters, not only to you but to those around you.

As David Budbill beautifully expressed:

“When I am every day all day all body and no mind, when I am physically, wholly and completely, in this world with the birds, the deer, the sky, the wind, the trees… this shining moment in the now, devoid of mental rumination.”

In my approach, I weave mindfulness and body awareness into existential therapy, inviting you to truly inhabit your body and come home to your lived experience in the present moment. By gently tuning into breath, sensations, and the felt sense, you begin to cultivate a deep connection with yourself beyond mental stories or past narratives.

This embodied presence helps you ground your existential exploration in real, lived experience — allowing you to savour life and feel truly alive rather than merely existing.

My own journey deeply shapes how I hold this space. When I left Brazil to move to London at 23, alone and without speaking English, I stepped into the unknown guided only by trust and presence. I learned to listen to my body, my intuition, and the quiet whispers of my soul — even when life felt uncertain. This personal experience taught me that true healing and transformation come from reconnecting with ourselves fully: mind, body, and spirit.

Existential therapy can help you become clear about what you want to accomplish, here and now, and support you in knowing you are enough — even when life brings challenges. It invites you to make peace with your “existence pain,” to share your life energy with others, and to receive the learning and connection they offer in return.

Ultimately, existential therapy helps you taste life, savour it, and arrive at a place where you feel you are truly living — not just existing.

We must go down to the very foundations of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made…’

– I Ching, Hexagram #34 “The Well” (circa 2500 BC)

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