At present, there is no generally accepted account of what
philosophical counselling is or why we should practice
it. The aim of this article is to propose an account of
philosophical counselling in terms of an Aristotelian
concept of Eudaimonia. I argue that this concept provides
an apt description of what philosophical counselling,
in many cases, consists in. One benefit of construing
philosophical counselling in terms of Eudaimonia is that
it provides a natural justification for the practice: since it
is plausible that Eudaimonia is a desirable state to be in,
philosophical counselling is worth engaging in inasmuch
as it promotes that state.