A primary goal of existential therapy is to help clients become aware that they are free to expand this awareness to increase options, accept responsibility for their choices, and become all they are capable of being.

• A. To eliminate all anxiety
• B. To help clients become aware they are free to expand this awareness to increase options on the basis of their freedom to choose other options, accept responsibility of those choices to recognize the factors that hinder their freedom to choose, and become all they are capable of being
• C. To replace personal values with therapist's values
• D. To maintain status quo and reduce cognitive load

Answer: (B)

Existential therapy centers on helping clients recognize their freedom to choose and the responsibility that comes with that freedom. The best option captures this by describing guiding clients to expand their awareness to create more options, accept responsibility for those choices, understand factors that can limit freedom, and strive to become all they are capable of being. This approach treats anxiety as a natural part of living with freedom, not something to be eliminated, and it respects the client’s own values rather than imposing someone else’s. It also aims for authentic living and meaning-making, rather than maintaining the status quo or simply reducing cognitive load.