Existential Therapy

Throughout human history, whatever people do, whatever they are engaged in, their only common goal is nothing but the effort to exist in this world. This effort to exist has sometimes appeared as materiality and sometimes as spirituality. While people exist in this world as much as the objects they possess, some people feel they exist in this world through the spirituality they feel inside. Exactly at the point where these two distinctions are, existential crises take place. At some points in life, the individual neither feels they belong to a spiritual feeling nor a material one. From this point on, people find themselves in a search to add meaning to their lives.

Finding meaning regarding life directly affects a person's mood and well-being, while simultaneously increasing the pleasure and satisfaction they get from life. A life that has meaning or to which meaning is attributed makes it easier for the individual to cope with problems and paves the way to their goals. Most importantly, a life with meaning makes this world more livable.

Being in a search for meaning and these questions waiting to be answered at the end of this search cease to be just questions after a point and all enter our lives as problems. Questions that absolutely cannot find an answer now directly affect our mental well-being and can be the harbinger of situations like depression, anxiety, and stress. Existential therapy, which emerged based on existence and the search for meaning, constitutes the fuel of this journey embarked upon to cope with questions whose main agenda is meaning and not to leave these unanswerable questions unanswered.

Together with the online existential therapy approach, the individual can make their current life more meaningful by eliminating the question marks in their mind. With this obtained meaning, clients can cope better with the difficulties in their lives. Having a concept of meaning helps the individual start moving away from negative emotions like depression and anxiety while also making them more motivated for daily life. This motivation they obtain is an important resource for them to be able to fight against negative emotions. Individuals who gain meaning now possess a more self-confident personality structure, and this self-confidence provides people with a healthy understanding of self. A good perception of self is one of the important representatives of healthy mental well-being.

Thinking about the meaning of life and producing ideas has always been on the agenda throughout human history and appears as a question mark that still maintains its actuality today. Questions such as why we live this life, what exactly we are doing, what life means have always remained an unknown for humanity in the past and present. Online existential therapy gives us an important perspective to find correct answers to these questions or to develop a thought that there is actually no right or wrong answer to these questions. The existential therapy approach is a type of therapy that helps individuals discover the purpose of their lives while at the same time helping them attribute meaning to their lives.

The online existential therapy approach is a branch of psychology focused on making sense of existence by approaching the existence of the individual and this life experience from a different perspective. The foundation of this online therapy method includes dynamics such as free will, existential anxieties, and the search for meaning. To what extent the individual takes responsibility for their choices, the aim of leading an authentic life, and how they make sense of the life they are in constitute the main theme of online existential therapy. If we look at the concepts that make up these themes and also the main theme of online existential therapy; we can list them as responsibility, authentic life, existential anxiety, free will.

Online existential therapy applies certain techniques to correctly answer these desires of clients who are in search of meaning and sense-making. These techniques work directly proportional to the actual goals of online existential therapy. Finding an online psychologist who is an expert in their field and truly competent before receiving online existential therapy support is very important, especially for this type of online therapy. Above all, to be an existential therapist, being an expert in this subject and going through the necessary training process is not enough on its own. At the same time, the therapist must seriously understand the philosophical dynamics of the existential approach well and be able to apply it in practice.

As we have mentioned many times above, meaning-centered interventions fundamentally lie on the agenda of online existential therapy. With these interventions, the individual engages in cooperation to make sense of both themselves and their life. For this discovery of meaning, the online psychologist is in a supportive position both emotionally and physically in every aspect. For this discovery to be correctly appropriate to the purpose, the therapist and client embark on an inner discovery accompanied by dialogues. With correct forms of dialogue, the individual tries to understand their own inner world and existential crises. With this dialogue technique, the online psychologist helps the client better understand their feelings and thoughts. Another important technique we use in online existential therapy is determining the purposes and values of life. While using this technique, one of the main goals of the online psychologist is to discover the client's beliefs and values and want them to lead a life appropriate to these.