The role of the existential therapist is really to facilitate the client’s own encounter with themselves, to work alongside them in the job of exploring and understanding better the client’s values, assumptions and ideals. The therapist is concerned to engage seriously with what matters most to the client, to avoid imposing their own judgements, and to help the client to elucidate and elaborate on their own perspective, with an ultimate view to the client’s being able to live life well and in their own way.