| Summary: | In this article I seek to elaborate a model of existential coaching psychology that is both grounded in existential<br />phenomenological philosophy but also informed by work in coaching. To date, many attempts to develop an<br />existential approach to coaching have – in my view – described an approach to coaching that is either indistinguishable<br />from existential counselling and psychotherapy or a rather crude form of technical eclecticism.<br />In this article, I discuss the key elements of existential coaching, as I understand it, and the need to modify the<br />existential therapeutic approach for coaching practise. To this end, I draw on extant work on coaching and,<br />in particular, the need for both a goal and solution directed approach if an existential model of psychological<br />coaching is going to provide the basis for effective practise.
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