Emmy van Deurzen

Emmy van Deurzen is one of the foremost existential therapists in the United Kingdom. She initially came to the UK to work with the anti-psychiatrists, but soon created her own school. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis and the International Society for Existential Psychotherapists and Counsellors and created the two most important training institutes for the approach: the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's College, London and the New School for Psychotherapy and Counselling at Schiller International University, London.

Emmy van Deurzen's work is based strongly in existential philosophy and her therapeutic methods enable people to reflect on their lives with equal attention to past, present and future. There are some similarities between this form of existential therapy and philosophical counselling. See also: Existential Psychotherapy.