Novice Counselor's blog

Jake is a depressed client.
An existential therapist would try to understand Jake’s world while fostering an interpersonal relationship between Jake and himself. The existential therapist believes that conflict arises as the persons tries to resolve confrontations with the givens of the human condition which are death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness (Bauman & Waldo, [...]

The main thing that I take away from this course is the knowledge of different theoretical perspectives and interventions. Almost every theory that was covered in this course offered something useful and new to this learner. This learner was exposed to theories previously unknown to her such as Hakomi therapy and the transpersonal [...]