Existential Therapy
Existential therapy examines lived experience through freedom, responsibility, isolation, mortality, and the search for meaning. It does not diagnose; phenomenological curiosity toward the client's world is central.
Concepts include authenticity, anxiety, choice, value conflict, and meaning-making. The therapist supports deepening experience rather than prescribing solutions.
The relationship is an honest, face-to-face existential dialogue. Goals favour conscious stance in life over manualised protocols.
Spiritual themes link to the client's meaning, not the therapist's belief; forensic or medical decisions are out of scope.
Work may be brief or long; culture shapes meaning talk.
In PsychSupervisor, existential selection summarises meaning, anxiety, and choice phenomenologically as decision support.
How it appears in the app
In PsychSupervisor you choose Existential Therapy as the theoretical frame when opening a case; the session transcript is read through that lens. The report is organised under five standard headings: Session Overview Summary, Developmental Assessment, Session Evaluation, Theory-Based Evaluation of Therapist Interventions, and Recommended Therapy Plan. After speaker roles are assigned, text is structured in the selected approach; evidence-mode sections stay tied to the transcript, while narrative-mode sections may summarise flow. Outputs support supervision and record-keeping as clinical decision support; they do not assign diagnoses, prescribe medication, or replace emergency care. The clinician verifies the transcript and retains final clinical judgment.
Other theories
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy
- Masterson Approach
- Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
- Schema Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
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