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Emmy Van Deurzen

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Emmy van Deurzen is a philosopher, counselling psychologist and existential therapist who is a world authority on existential psychotherapy. She founded, directed and developed both Regent's College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. She has been Professor of Psychotherapy with Regent's College, Schiller International University, Honorary Professor with the University of Sheffield, a visiting fellow with Darwin College, Cambridge and is currently Visiting Professor with Middlesex University, the academic partner of NSPC. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) and its Journal Existential Analysis in 1988 and co-founded the World Confederation of Existential Therapy (WCET) and the Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe (FETE) in 2015. She was the first chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Amongst her books are the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3d edition Sage, 2012), which was widely translated as well as her book Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009). She co-authored the Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling with Raymond Kenward in 2005 and co-edited a book on Existential Issues with Claire Arnold-Baker in the same year. A co-edited book on Existential Supervision came out in 2009 and the second edition of her textbook Everyday Mysteries was published by Routledge in 2010, whilst Sage published the second edition of her co-authored (with Martin Adams) book on Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2016. Wiley published the second edition of her well known book Paradox and Passion in 2015 and her co-edited Wiley World Handbook for Existential Therapy in 2019. Her book Rising from Existential Crisis: Living Beyond Calamity came out with PCCS books in 2021. She is currently writing a book on Existential Freedom for Penguin.