Sarah Kubrick is a writer and existential psychotherapist.

She writes a weekly column for USA Today, but online she is the millennial therapist.

She has a wonderful perspective on authenticity, self-love, acceptance, and responsibility.

And in this time of high stress, high anxiety, I wanted to talk to her more about how we

can protect our mental health.

This is a bit of optimism.

Sarah, you call yourself an existential therapist, an existential psychotherapist.

I end up with those words mean, but you put them together, so I have to ask, what exactly

is an existential therapist?

So an existential therapist is someone who helps people figure out their meaning in life

and helps them figure out who they are.

So how long have you been doing this?

The therapy, I mean, including training, probably like eight years on my own, probably

like four.

And have you noticed a change in the questions people are asking or the challenge that they're

facing in the past eight years?

Absolutely.

I mean, it's really difficult for me to say it's because society is changing.

It could also be that my demographic is changing as well.

But I would argue that, especially with COVID, everyone became a bit more existential.

I feel like there was an existential crisis overall.

So especially in 2020, people started to ask the question, what for?

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