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Emmy Van Deurzen

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Emmy van Deurzen (born 13 December 1951 in The Hague, Netherlands) is an existential therapist and honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield.

After moving to the UK in 1977 to work with anti-psychiatrists, she founded the Society for Existential Analysis in 1988, and later created a London-based training institute for the Lapproach at Regent's College in 1985, before leaving to found The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in 1996 at Schiller International University. In 2010 The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling became independent and is now situated in South Hampstead, London.

Her therapy work is based in existential philosophy, as a form of philosophical counseling, and focuses on enabling people to reflect on the ...more

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Emmy van Deurzen and her daughter Sasha van Deurzen-Smith will run a one day workshop on Creative Living on Saturday 13 April in London. For further information please contact Sasha on office@nspc.org.uk or on 020 76240471

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	Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy in Practice 4.36 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skills in Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy by Emmy Van Deurzen (Goodreads Author), Martin Adams 4.31 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy 4.34 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness 4.27 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	İnsan Meselelerine Varoluşçu Bakışlar by Emmy Van Deurzen (Goodreads Author), Claire Arnold-Baker, Ferhat Jak İçöz (Translator) 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradox and Passion in Psychotherapy: An Existential Approach to Therapy and Counselling 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existential Counselling in Practice 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existential Therapy: Distinctive Features 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling by Emmy Van Deurzen (Goodreads Author), Raymond Kenward 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existential Perspectives on Supervision: Widening the Horizon of Psychotherapy and Counselling by Emmy Van Deurzen (Goodreads Author), Sarah Young really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Emmy Van Deurzen (?)

“„ I do not ask or demand for anything to be different to the way
it is, and yet I know I have to play my part in making things as best I can. I
learn to work in line with what is right and I try to let the world shine for all it
is worth in order to be part of its light while I am alive. I know that becoming
what I am will sometimes be glorious and sometimes odious and I have peace
with it all, no matter what. Losing my father makes me more aware of being a
child of life rather than a child of my parents. He is slightly ahead of me in the
inexorable coming and going of life, but I now recognize the path and can see
its end lit up in the distance. The paradox is always there: in life we are in
death. It is not for us to meddle with. I cannot demand a rearrangement. And
as I let myself face death, I rediscover life. [...] My leap of faith is to trust that
life will give me the exact experiences that are most apt for learning to live.
And sometimes such experiences will be difficult. At times they may even
seem catastrophic. But in transcending them and learning from them we
make them into moments of truth.”
― Emmy Van Deurzen, Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness

tags: happiness-in-life, healing, psychotherapy, truth

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