Danny van Deurzen-Smith
About the Therapist
My name is Danny van Deurzen-Smith, and I'm a coach. Coaching offers a focussed conversation in which you explore your goals, identify what is meaningful to you and illuminate your own wisdom about the world and yourself.
As an existential coach specifically, I will work with you in a philosophical way. I will always recognise that you are the expert in your own life, and my job is simply to facilitate a conversation that helps us to uncover your own knowledge, feelings, desires and solutions.
I am autistic and queer, and am particularly keen to offer an affirming space for other neurodivergent, queer or otherwise marginalised people.
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I've been working one on one with clients since 2012, and got my MA in Existential Coaching in 2013 (from The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Middlesex University).
Existential Coaching stems from both Existential Psychotherapy and traditional coaching approaches.
Existential coaching acknowledges that each client has a completely subjective experience and therefore we cannot simply rely on applying rules, theories or frameworks. Instead, the practitioner tries to elucidate what the client is experiencing, how they make sense of their world, and what they think is important.
Existential coaching does not seek to solve, fix or label anything. Instead it recognises that human life is fluid, changing and full of challenges. It focusses instead on accepting those challenges, and empowering clients through acknowledging their freedom to choose, and create their own meaning.
- Existential
- Neurodivergent
- Ace | Asexual
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Cross-dresser
- Lesbian
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Trans
- One to one
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Young adults (16-24)
- Online
Free initial consultation.
£75 full fee with some discounted places available
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