Beginning to Live

Emmy van Deurzen is a world-renowned existential psychotherapist and counselling psychologist who directs her private practice, Dilemma Consultancy, in London. She was the inaugural Chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the founding director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, as well as the Existential Academy in London. She is a Visiting Professor with Middlesex University. She has published twenty books on existential therapy and the challenges of the human condition and she has lectured in more than thirty-five countries around the world.

One of the most profound and potentially life-altering encounters I’ve had . . . van Deurzen writes about helping people rediscover their existential courage in the face of life’s struggles and uncertainty . . . demonstrates a knack for distilling complex ideas into something easy to grasp and practical . . . She is interested in how we can cultivate meaning, courage and freedom despite or because of the suffering life throws at us, a process that begins with how we approach life, how we cultivate our inner worlds