This book serves as the first practical introduction to a skills-based existential approach. Without requiring the reader to have special philosophical knowledge, it describes specific and tangible skills, tasks, and interactions of existential practice.

It describes:

• the theoretical background and history of existential psychotherapy
• phenomenological practice
• the core of existential therapy
• essential characteristics of the existential psychotherapist
• qualities of "well-being"
• the psychotherapeutic process and the nature of change
• misconceptions surrounding the existential approach

Having created an essential source of theory and practice for those starting their training as well as for experienced psychotherapists eager to expand their knowledge, the authors of this book make the existential approach accessible to those who want to discover what it has to offer.