Personally, my faith guides my existential reasoning. I am on this earth in because the Lord created me, and nearly twenty-one years ago I was born into a loving family. Something that has always aided me in my life was the knowledge that I was not a mistake, the Lord created me with a distinct purpose in life. Whenever I would become scared as a child, I was comforted by the belief that I had …show more content…
By helping clients to be self-aware, helping them understand that they have the ability to create their own future while also understanding their own mortality. Existential therapy focuses on the client-therapist relationship, which I believe is key in being able to help clients overcome certain obstacles in their lives. Existential therapy also focuses on the human condition and the predisposition to loneliness that everyone experiences. Existential therapists then attempt to guide their clients in understanding how to cope with their loneliness by finding s sense of meaning in their lives. Due to my personal beliefs, I believe that humans are undoubtedly born with certain emptiness that is designed to be filled by the Lord. Thus, I believe that existential therapy, with the addition of faith would be an incredibly beneficial tool when creating a counseling theory