Personal Models of Helping

Paper on Personal Model of Helping The following paper discusses the personal model of helping called the existential therapy model. The model of therapy is used to help people in counseling live better, stress free lives by exploring themselves and learning to live an authentic life. This model is effective when the therapist is authentic themselves and are genuine about helping others, which builds a positive relationship between the therapist and the client. This kind of model allows the client to open up and gives them the ability to explore themselves; past, present, and future. Existential therapy allows the client to understand that their lives are a direct response from the choices that they make in their lives. The therapist also gives the client tools to help change the new found negative behaviors. And although change is sometimes hard to adapt to, with the proper tools from the therapist and motivation from the client, the correct path to an authentic live can began and goals achieved. Existential therapy recognizes the problems of the human condition and existence while at the same time emphasizing human beings' great potential and freedom to respond constructively to these challenges. It helps individuals who choose depression as a response to existential difficulties to break this negative pattern ("Ehow.com", 2013).
Existential Model of Helping
From my viewpoint, I feel that the existential approach to counseling model of helping is very effective. I have formed this viewpoint because the existential approach characterizes human beings as creatures of continual change and transformation, living their lives in a context of personal strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities and limitations created by their environment from their past, present, and future. The existential approach is all about exploring meaning, value, and learning to live authentically, in accordance with one’s own ideals, priorities and values. Authentic living means