Becoming Existential Podcast by Max Karlin

Episodes 6

Avg. Duration 49m

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Apple Rating ★ 5.0 (1)

Since Oct 2025

Latest Episode May 2026

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About This Podcast

Becoming Existential is a podcast about the journey of becoming a therapist and what that process reveals about the human condition. Hosted by Max Karlin, a trainee existential therapist at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London, together with peers and leading figures in existential therapy, the show explores the questions at the heart of every life: freedom, meaning, finitude, relationship and the courage to face what cannot be fixed. The show is not about techniques or quick fixes, but about learning to sit with uncertainty — in therapy and in life.

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Recent Episodes

S1E6 Therapy Is Alchemy - Paulo Ribeiro on Blindness, Embodiment and Presence

May 24, 2026 1h 11m

Paulo Ribeiro lost his sight after a near-death experience and discovered a new way of seeing. On embodiment, alchemy, and presence.What happens when a therapist can't see their client?Paulo Ribeiro…

S1E5 Presence Over Technique: An Existential Dialogue with Paola Pomponi

Mar 25, 2026 37m

In this conversation with Paola Pomponi, we explore what existential therapy really means — not just as a theory, but as a way of being with others.We talk about therapist training, authenticity,…

S1E4 Ernesto Spinelli: What Is Therapy Really For?

Jan 25, 2026 58m

Professor Ernesto Spinelli - one of the founders of the existential psychotherapy in the UK, author of foundational texts including The Interpreted World and Practising Existential Therapy, and one…

S1E3 Bound and Free - Claire Arnold-Baker on Paradox, Responsibility & Existential Therapy

Dec 01, 2025 44m

In this episode of Becoming Existential, I sit down with Dr Claire Arnold-Baker — Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy & Counselling (NSPC), existential psychotherapist, psychologist,…

S1E2 Persefoni Kaltaki on Learning, Changing and the Path Toward Practice

Nov 15, 2025 37m

What happens when the path you’ve followed your whole life suddenly stops making sense?What does it really take — emotionally, personally, existentially — to become a therapist?In this intimate and…

S1E1 The Gift of Presence with Kirk Schneider, PhD

Oct 23, 2025 45m

In this first episode of Becoming Existential, I’m joined by Dr. Kirk J. Schneider — psychologist, author, lecturer, and one of the most influential voices in contemporary existential–humanistic and…

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Becoming Existential has published 6 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.

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Becoming Existential is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 49m.

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