I was very into existentialism when I was young and read a fair amount of existential therapy stuff also back then. I liked Yalom much better at the time, it was long before I experienced therapy or knew very much about it in general. These days I would not find his writings appealing and he definitely does not strike me as a person I would want to interact with, let alone have as a T. I easily understand why many people like him though, just not my style now that I know therapy and I've also kinda grown out of existentialism quite a bit - maybe just because I explored it to death in my youth (pun intended). Yalom is just not sympathetic to me at all at this point.