Contributions: It helps clients of all cultures find meaning and harmony in their lives, because it focuses on the sober issues each of must inevitably face: love, anxiety, suffering, and death. These are the human experiences that transcend the boundaries that separate cultures. A strength of the existential approach is that it enables clients to examine the degree to which their behavior is being influenced by social and cultural conditioning. Clients can be challenged to look at the price they are paying for the decisions they have made.