Helping deep thinkers navigate life’s big questions.
Find Meaning & Purpose with Existential Therapy
You know you're not "normal anxious." You're not worried about whether you left the stove on or if people like you (okay, maybe that one too). You're worried about what any of this means. You're the person who thinks about death at dinner parties. Who feels the weight of climate collapse in your chest. Who achieved everything you were supposed to want and still feels hollow.
You're asking: What's the point? Who am I? What am I supposed to be doing with this brief, strange life?
These aren't symptoms. They're the most human questions you can ask.
What Existential Therapy actually is:
Existential therapy doesn't try to make your big questions go away. It helps you live them.
It starts with four uncomfortable truths that most therapy politely ignores >>>
These aren't problems to solve. They're conditions to accept. And once you stop fighting them, you can start creating authentic responses to them.
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You're going to die. This isn't morbid - it's clarifying. When you accept that your time is finite, suddenly every choice matters. Every moment has weight. Your mortality isn't your enemy; it's what makes your life precious.
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You have radical freedom to choose your response to life, which is simultaneously terrifying and liberating. You can't control what happens to you, but you can choose what you make of it. This freedom is the source of both your anxiety and your power.
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You're ultimately alone in your subjective experience. No one can fully know what it's like to be you. This creates loneliness, yes, but also uniqueness. Your aloneness is what makes connection meaningful.
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Life has no predetermined meaning, which means you get to create your own. The universe doesn't care what you do with your life - which is the best news you'll hear all day. You're free to create purpose that actually fits you.
What this can also sound like:
When "Normal" Doesn't Fit
You've tried to want what you're supposed to want (the career, the relationship, the house, the life script) but it feels like wearing shoes three sizes too small. We help you stop playing the "should" game and start asking: What do I actually want?
The Meaning Crisis
"What's the point?" isn't a question to fix - it's an invitation to create your own answer. We explore what gives your life meaning, how to build purpose in an uncertain world, and how to make choices that align with your authentic self.
Death Anxiety & Mortality Awareness
If you can't stop thinking about death, you're not broken - you're awake. We help you transform death anxiety from torment into clarity. When you stop avoiding mortality, you start living more fully.
Climate Grief & World-Pain
Your heartbreak about the state of the world isn't pathology - it's connection. We work with climate anxiety, political overwhelm, and the grief of living in a world that's unraveling. Your sensitivity isn't something to cure; it's wisdom to channel sustainably.
Existential Isolation & Deep Loneliness
The loneliness of being truly seen, of feeling fundamentally alone in your experience, of wondering if anyone really gets you. We help you transform isolation into solitude, and learn to make genuine contact with others without losing yourself.
The "What If I'm Wasting My Life" Spiral
That panic of "Am I wasting my life?" is information, not pathology. It shows up when there's a gap between who you are and how you're living. We help you listen to that discomfort instead of numbing it.
Identity & Authenticity
Who are you when you stop performing? When you drop the masks you've been wearing to make others comfortable? We help you excavate your authentic self from under all the "shoulds" and expectations.
How This is Different from Other Therapy
We don’t pathologize your depth.
Your tendency to think deeply about existence isn't overthinking - it's intelligence. Your sensitivity to the world's pain isn't "too much" - it's appropriate. We won't try to make you less intense; we'll help you use your intensity as fuel.
We take the world seriously.
Your mental health doesn't exist in a vacuum. You're part of a larger field - economic systems, political realities, climate crisis, cultural expectations. Sometimes your "symptoms" are just sane responses to insane circumstances.
We work with mind AND body.
Existential therapy isn't just talking about ideas - it's noticing how existential themes live in your body. How you hold your breath when you want to cry. How your shoulders carry the weight of responsibility. How your anxiety manifests as a clenched jaw.
We aren’t trying to “fix” you.
You're not broken. You're a human trying to make meaning in a world that doesn't provide easy answers. Our job isn't to repair you - it's to witness you, challenge you, and help you create a life that actually fits.
We believe in the creative magic.
Not woo. Not bypassing. But the genuine possibility that when you stop performing and start living, when you make real contact with yourself and others, something shifts. You find your way forward.
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This approach works well for people who are intellectually curious, willing to examine their lives honestly, and ready to grapple with difficult questions. It's not for people looking for quick fixes or someone to tell them what to do.
What to expect:
Existential therapy is direct, sometimes uncomfortable, and always real. I won't give you platitudes or tell you everything happens for a reason. I won't teach you breathing exercises and send you back to a life that's killing you.
I Will:
Take your big questions seriously
Validate that caring about the world is sanity, not pathology
Challenge you when you're hiding from yourself
Help you notice how you interrupt contact with yourself and others
Support you in creating meaning, even when it feels impossible
Witness your pain without trying to fix it
Believe in your capacity to live authentically, even in a world that makes it hard
This work will require the following. If you have them, great. If not, we can start building:
Willingness to sit with discomfort
Honesty about what's actually happening in your life
Courage to stop performing and start being real
Commitment to small daily practices between sessions
Tolerance for not having all the answers
You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to be willing to show up as you actually are - exhausted, confused, angry, tender, whatever - and do the work.
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, by Portia Nelson
(1) I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk I fall in. I am lost ... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out.
(2) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place but, it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.
(3) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in ... it's a habit. My eyes are open I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately.
(4) I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
(5) I walk down another street.