Today's existential counseling meaningfully introduces the factors of the psychology of religion. Particularly, Schneider, representing American existential counseling, proposes the concept of awakening as the core of existential counseling. The concept implies two major things: the fact that human being is already alright just as wholeness, and the second is that life based on this wholeness can be restored to human being. The awareness and application of these two facts take human being to the awakening life. In this process, there is always a bipolar state of tension and relaxation, which is experienced as a contradiction to the individual. However, by accepting that this bipolar state is a fundamental condition given to us, this contradiction can be transformed into paradox. The moment when the contradiction changes into a paradox, it is the wholeness that the individual experiences. The life force of the individual is restored with this experience of wholeness. ABT(Awakening Based Therapy) is an existential approach that helps the individual to experience wholeness by knowing the fact of paradox. At the same time, ABT focuses not only on knowing the fact of paradox, but also on living on the fact of paradox in life. In other words, ABT is a form of existential counseling that aims to realize the reality that human beings can live as a practical subject in this life by trusting their own life force.