What happens when the person trained to hold everyone else begins to lose hold of herself?
Ari is a clinician devoted to helping others through suffering. Yet beneath her competence, something is unraveling. The work that once gave her purpose has begun to feel empty, and her clients’ stories follow her home. She must finally confront a question she can no longer avoid: Who am I becoming through the work I have chosen to do?
Through Ari’s journey, The Existential Clinician explores mortality, freedom, responsibility, isolation, identity, love, suffering, hope, and the search for meaning. Blending narrative, existential philosophy, clinical theory, psychological science,
practical tools, and reflective dialogue, the book moves beyond what clinicians do to
examine who they are and who they are becoming.
Written for clinicians, trainees, supervisors, educators, healthcare professionals, and all those who accompany others through difficult moments.
We do not stand above suffering.
We kneel beside it—and together, make meaning.
The Existential Clinician
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