ABSTRACT
For many clients, emotions will override logic and attempting to help clients reason their ways through a situation ends in frustration, hopelessness, and endless looping reasoning that never seems to get anywhere productive. The current anxiety a client may be experiencing because of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from day-to-day situations happens because the client's mind defaults into the same type of fear even though the situation is different. In a narrative approach, a counselor is interested in the storytelling aspect of a client's life. Narrative work was developed by Michael White and David Epston and is a method that helps clients separate themselves from their daily problems in an effort to have them depend on their skills to reduce those problems. Using existential theory in counseling was introduced by both Victor Frankl and Rollo May and is a method that is directed by the idea that a clients' inner conflicts exist because of their resistance to certain givens of existence.
