Aga Kaperek, a BACP registered integrative therapist, explains how embracing the 'here and now' encounter in therapy can enhance your growth.

How can existential counselling help with anxiety?

I love books. I always have. They allow me to escape, time travel, and exist in different bodies. They also provide therapeutic lessons by allowing m…

When the client and counsellor meet for the first time, some therapists may offer thoughts on different counselling techniques. These can range from…

In the present distressing uncertainties, we are all trying to make difficult decisions about what to do to make the best of whatever, sometimes cata…

As an experienced existential therapist in private practice, I remain optimistic about life despite my growing familiarity with the tragic aspects of…

The first meeting with a counsellor can be challenging, even for the most confident client, but it is an important meeting particularly as this initi…

Existential themes are broadly based on the work of the philosopher Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Husserl and more recently by writers and artists such…

Two terrorist attacks in the last four weeks – first Manchester and then London – show how uncertain and frightening our world can be. Most of us are…

On the 13th May, I attended the Dying for Life Festival in Cambridge. This was one of the many events happening all over the country as part of Dying…

Psychodynamic therapy, transactional analysis, Gestalt, integrative therapy, person-centred therapy, humanistic therapy, core process, existential th…

We all experience anxiety. Sometimes it becomes so intense that it completely takes over and we're unable to focus on anything else, meaning we end u…