Existential Wellness Coaching

A Guide to Helping Clients Make Meaning and Live Authentically
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-20927-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maisel, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Berufs- und Studienberatung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Berufe, Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. From Existential Thought to Existential Wellness 2. The History of a Concept 3. On Existential Wellness Coaching 4. Existential Wellness Coaching Tactics 5. The Weight of Individuality 6. The Story of Life Purposes 7. Coaching Meaning 8. The Pain of Meaning Crises 9. On Existential Sadness 10. On Existential Anxiety 11. Dealing with Ambiguity and Uncertainty 12. The Problem of Work 13. Freedom, Resistance, and Rebellion 14. On Authenticity 15. Creativity’s Place in the Puzzle 16. The Possibility of Existential Joy Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

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.