Ms Mirdza Abele, MSc

Existential counselling starts from the idea that grief, dread and loss of meaning are not malfunctions. They are responses to real things: mortality, sudden change, being alone with a decision, the question of what matters now. I work phenomenologically, which means we slow down and look closely at your experience as it is, before deciding what to do with it. I draw on the existential tradition of Frankl, Yalom and van Deurzen, and I am continuing training in Existential Analysis. I do not use a fixed protocol. We work out together what this hour is for. Alongside the existential frame I have trained in CBT for anxiety and in emotionally focused, attachment-based work, and I sometimes bring in artistic and expressive methods when words are not enough.