My name is Sebastian Wingfield and I am a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC #10006435) and a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #22622).

Beyond my master’s degree in counselling psychology, I have extensive training as an existential therapist and integrate elements of humanistic, psychodynamic, and contemporary cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques in my work to form an individualized treatment plan that is co-authored with the client.

What does existential therapy look like?

When most people hear the term “existential therapist,” they might think about different ideas like “existential dread or crisis” and someone in a scratchy turtleneck who just wants to talk about death and meaning. And yes, these are technically existential concepts, but my approach is a little different. Without getting into too many details, what’s essential is this: My aim each session is to help clients become more of who they really are, rather than who they should be. The more experience I’ve gained as a counsellor, the more I have become convinced that when clients can expand their ability to be who they really are, the more meaningful life can be.

This process will look different for each client, as my approach is non-prescriptive; but it is guided heavily by principles of therapy that are collaborative, person-centered, trauma-informed, and attachment-informed.

>“To be human means to be constantly questioned by life, and in the existential understanding, it is the job of the human being to respond to life’s questions with the best possible answer in a particular situation; through these answers, the human being becomes responsible for his/her life. ”

My name is Sebastian Wingfield and I am a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC #10006435) and a Reg... Read More