The number of people accessing psychotherapy is on the rise. While most therapy focuses on emotional well-being, for many people philosophical counseling may lead to better outcomes by putting meaning-seeking and meaning-making at its core, writes Katerina Apostolides. 

Philosophical counseling is an emerging field of counseling whose origin differs both from traditional forms of psychotherapy and from life coaching, although it may overlap to a certain extent with these. Philosophical counselors are trained in the practice of philosophy and their mission is to spread this practice to people who are interested in learning it and applying it to their own lives. Although philosophical counseling is an emerging field of counseling, its roots are ancient as it is inspired at least partly by the example of philosophy as a way of life that was developed in ancient Greece.