Existential Wellness Coaching: A Guide to Helping Clients Make Meaning and Live Authentically

This comprehensive guide merges existential philosophy with wellness coaching strategies, equipping coaches with powerful tools to help clients meet their existential challenges and lead lives of authentic purpose, deeper meaning, and sustainable well-being.

Dr. Eric Maisel introduces existential wellness coaching as a holistic approach that recognizes how physical and psychological well-being are intrinsically connected to our sense of purpose, meaning, and authenticity. Grounded in concepts from existential philosophy, this practical guide helps coaches, therapists, and other mental health practitioners deepen their work with clients to address existential challenges, and to help clients develop the resilience to maintain existential well-being in challenging times. Unlike traditional coaching that focuses solely on goals or conventional therapy that treats symptoms, existential wellness coaching empowers clients to confront life's fundamental questions while developing concrete strategies for living with greater intention. Each chapter systematically addresses core existential concerns, including self-relationship, value identification, purpose creation, meaning-making, authenticity, and developing a personal life philosophy.

Offering new ways of thinking about common existential issues, this book contains tools that will help coaches enable their clients to make life-changing shifts and necessary mental reframes.

Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of 60+ books, including The Coach’s Way, Rethinking Depression, Brave New Mind, Night Brilliance, Coaching the Artist Within, and The Van Gogh Blues. He writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today, with 3.5 million views, and is the lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series.