Emmy van Deurzen is a world-renowned existential psychotherapist and counselling psychologist who directs her private practice, Dilemma Consultancy, in London. She was the inaugural Chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and the founding director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, as well as the Existential Academy in London. She is a Visiting Professor with Middlesex University. She has published twenty books on existential therapy and the challenges of the human condition and she has lectured in more than thirty-five countries around the world.