Existential therapy explores how we live in relation to freedom, finitude, meaning, mortality, and authenticity. In our work together, we may look at how you make choices, the responsibilities you avoid, or the ways you live in and out of tune with your values. We pay close attention to the elements for deep existential wellbeing, including: temporality, spatiality, identity, and embodiment. The aim is not to offer instant answers, but to support a more truthful relationship with your existence. This approach helps you clarify what matters to you and identify where you feel blocked. It offers a path towards living more fully, with greater intention, vitality, and connection to your authentic self.
Phenomenological therapy is rooted in experiential enquiry: a gentle yet precise focus on what is happening in the moment. We explore the quality of your lifeworld: the lived, felt sense of being you, shaped by personal history, relationality, and bodily experience. Rather than interpret or analyse, we slow down and notice how feelings, thoughts, and perceptions emerge and unfold to configure your present experience. This attentiveness often reveals hidden patterns (gestalts) and discloses fresh insights. Phenomenology is an open, descriptive attitude towards being, helping you contact your inner world more clearly, and understand yourself in deeper more nuanced ways.
Embodied therapy reflects that emotions and personal histories are lived by the body, not just the mind. I pay close attention to body process: posture, breath, movement, gesture, and sensation. These often speak where words fall short. Techniques like empty chair work can help you explore relationships, inner conflicts, and unfinished business using voice and gesture, engaging both mind and body. This approach can reveal where you hold tension, avoid contact, or feel most alive. By connecting to the body’s wisdom, therapy becomes grounded and transformative: helping you reconnect with yourself, release held energy, and move towards wholeness with greater awareness.
Further reading:
De Vleeschauwer, P. (2022). Being Maximum Embodied is a Healthy Choice. Psychology Today.
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