But in my experience, and I suspect I’m not alone, the issues that drive one to therapy seem to call out for moral and existential exploration. This is why I find it odd that therapy so rarely involves moral and existential exploration. Many of the issues clients grapple with (and I say this from the client’s perspective, not the therapist’s) are deeply existential. As Frankl argued, much of the anxiety and malaise in the modern world coincides with a drift into purposelessness (a condition he characterized as the “Existential Vacuum”). It acknowledges the agent’s fundamental need for orientation, and, in this way, moves the goalpost from mere functionality to flourishing.