Such understanding welcomes psychotherapy clients to the human realm as wound and freedom. Such ‘wound’ and ‘freedom’ is not merely historical and social but is given, and can be taken up and lived in more welcome ways. There are ‘wounds’ and vulnerabilities that can be avoided or can be ‘healed’, but there is a great vulnerability that cannot. There are many freedoms that can be taken away or fought for, but there is a great freedom (with its responsibility) that cannot. An existentially oriented psychotherapy may give deep permission to clients to encounter and experience a kind of ‘settling down’ into these dimensions as they come through in the unique vicissitudes of their own life, and to take them up and live them forward.