Becoming existential counselors: Co/autoethnography of students’ identity formation

Abstract

We present the co/autoethnography of two counselors-in-training (CIT) working to integrate existentialism into their emerging practice. Autoethnography examines unique insights from the iterative and reflexive processes that two CIT engaged with when establishing an existential counseling practice. We discuss these lived experiences in relation to existentialism, theoretical selection, and graduate student development.