Emmy van Deurzen is a counselling psychologist, psychotherapist and philosopher who is a world authority on existential psychotherapy and who established existential therapy in the United Kingdom. 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 and is currently Visiting Professor with Middlesex University, for whom she directs two masters and two doctoral programmes at NSPC. She founded the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) and its Journal Existential Analysis in 1988 and co-founded the International Collaborative of Existential Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ICECAP) in 2006. She was the first chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Amongst her books are the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (2nd edition Sage, 2002), 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 her new co-authored (with Martin Adams) book on Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2011.
