Logotherapy means healing through meaning. The goal of existential therapy is that we comprehend our own being and work to know who we are and who we are becoming.

The basic dimensions of the human condition are:

1. Capacity for self awareness
2. Freedom for responsibility
3. Discovering one's identity and establishing meaningful relationships with others
4. Search for meaning, purpose, values, and goals
5. Anxiety is normal, is part of life, and can promote growth
6. Awareness of death

The goals of existential therapy are to:

1. Increase client's awareness, understanding, goals, purpose, and responsibility for his/or her actions
2. Accept freedom
3. Accept normal anxiety

Some of the techniques used in existential therapy include:

1. There is no one set of techniques. Therapists can use any that are available depending on the needs of the client.
2. An authentic relationship between the client and the therapist is necessary and very important.
3. Existential therapists show wide latitude in the techniques they employ.
4. Techniques are secondary in the therapeutic process, and subjective understanding of the client is primary.

Existential therapy concepts include:

1. Part of the human condition is that humans are both free and responsible.
2. The existential approach is a reaction against both psychoanalysis and
behaviorism.
3. According to the existential view, anxiety is a part of the human condition.
4. Existential therapy is best considered as an approach to understanding humans.
5. The therapist's authenticity might be considered the most crucial quality of a therapist in building an effective therapeutic relationship with a client.
6. Existential therapy is basically an experiential approach.
7. The existential therapist would probably agree that ultimately we are alone.

A limitation of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client population is the focus on one's own responsibility rather than on social conditions.