Van Deurzen, Emmy

Emmy van Deurzen (born 13 December 1951) is an existential therapist, psychologist, philosopher, and author who works in the United Kingdom and who has been instrumental in developing existential therapy worldwide. She developed a philosophical therapy based in existential-phenomenology, which was detailed in her many publications, and taught in the organizations she founded. Van Deurzen was the founder of the Society for Existential Analysis in 1988 and initiated the first World Congress for Existential Therapy in 2015, which also led to the founding of the Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe. She co-founded the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's University in 1990, the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in 1996, Dilemma Consultancy in 2000 and the Existential Academy in 2010. She was the founder and first president of the worldwide Existential Movement. She established a philosophical therapy based in existential-phenomenology and her twenty plus books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.