Dates: Nov 7th & 8th and Nov 14th & 15th, 2025

Via Zoom w/ Zoom Breakout Rooms

Attendance taken via Zoom

In this 16-hour online training, leading instructors in the E-H field will provide theoretical explanation and experiential opportunities for the development and/or strengthening of skills and capacities that are not only core to the E-H approach but can also support therapists of many other modalities cultivate a foundation for optimizing their technical skills.

An Existential-Humanistic (E-H) approach to psychotherapy can be a foundation for all therapists seeking to do deep and life-changing work with their clients. The E-H approach is based on core ways of being and working with clients that help facilitate greater awareness, greater sense of choice, increased agency and adaptiveness and a deeper connection to self and others all in the service of healing and growing. There are core capacities and skills an E-H therapist uses to help clients effectively explore and work through their existential predicaments so they can more fully access what deeply matters to them. 

Topics covered include: 

  • The cultivation of presence as both the ground of therapy and one of its primary objectives 
  • The focus on the "living moment" in working with the "here-and-now" experience of clients staying with what presents itself phenomenologically rather than employing theoretical interventions 
  • The differentiation between primary, direct experience and secondary, interpretive experience - and the emphasis on working with phenomenological experience 
  • The meaning-making process and the formation of the Self-and-World Construct helping clients clarify how they make sense of experience
  • How to work with the client's ways of being in the world and how to utilize the therapist-client relationship to help shift unhelpful ways of being 
  • How to identify and work through clients' inner battles in order to support their longings to emerge, and feel more choice-ful and psychospiritually whole 
  • Integrating and embodying your theoretical beliefs and authentic sense of self in your work as a therapist 


Core Skills Online Training in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy!!

Schedule  (Pacific Time Zone)

Friday, November 7th, 2025 9am-1:15pm  PST (UTC +8)

Saturday, November 8th, 2025 9am-1:15pm  PST (UTC +8)

Friday, November 14th, 2025 9am-1:15pm  PST (UTC +8)

Saturday, November15th, 2025 9am-1:15pm  PST (UTC +8)

>We ask everyone to be in the waiting room 15 minutes early each day as we dive right in.

Camera Friendly Online Event: This is a live workshop via Zoom Meeting w/ Zoom Breakout Rooms. Due to the nature of this experiential training this workshop requires attendees to have their cameras on during the sessions. This is not "lecture based." Continuing education requires cameras on with full participation in all aspects. Due to the possible personal nature of the work being practiced, this event is not recorded for student make up. 

Limited Cohort: In order to provide an intimate-enough experience (even on Zoom), the number of enrollments is limited - so please register early to ensure your spot! 


EHI Instruction Team* Facilitating

Kirk Schneider, PhD  is a co-founder of EHI and is an EHI Core Instructor

Sonja Saltman, LMFT is a co-founder of EHI and an EHI Core Instructor

Stephanie Weissman, PsyD,  is an EHI Affiliate Instructor

Doug Silberstein, LMFT is an EHI Affiliate Instructor

Scott Gibbs, LMFT, is an EHI Affiliate Instructor

Bonnie Rose, LMFT, is an EHI Affiliate Instructor

Almudena Sánchez Mazarro, MS, is an EHI Affiliate Instructor

Chris Duessing, MFT, EHI Affiliate Instructor

Joshua Diliberto, LCMHC, NCC, RYT is an EHI Teaching Assistant

Christoper Bradshaw, M.F.A., M.A., LAC is an EHI Teaching Assistant

Sophie Archibald, LCSW, PhD, is an EHI Teaching Assistant

*subject to change if needed

EHI Instructors emphasize the key ingredients of the E-H approach, including empathy, acceptance, and genuineness, to model how trainees can create safe, collaborative and life-changing therapeutic encounters. 

During this workshop the instructors demonstrate how the therapeutic relationship, in and of itself is a vehicle for healing and change and how therapeutic "presence" cultivates sensitivity and appropriate responsiveness to clients' emotions, relational patterns and inner worlds. 

These two essential principles working directly with the therapeutic relationship and working experientially in the "here and now" - are the foundational blocks of E-H therapy and EHI training.

EHI's Clinical Training Committee: 
Nance Reynolds (Chair), Kirk Schneider, Stephanie Weissman, and TA's Joshua Diliberto and Chris Bradshaw. 

EHI's Online Workshop Committee:  
Doug Silberstein, Sonja Saltman and Bonnie Rose.

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Registration Fee Information

General Licensed/Pre-Licensed fee for this training is $685 but the following offers are available*:

  • The  Elder/Student rate is $635 ($50 off) | Elder is 65 and older, please & Student is in a Master's or PhD clinical program 

EARLY BIRD OFFERS:

Through 08/28/25: Professional tuition is $615 | Student/Elder is $565

From 08/29/25 through 09/19/25: Professional tuition is $645 | Student/Elder is $595

Two Payment Options Available: If you register by 10/10/25 you can either pay in full or choose the split-payment option where the final payment will be due by 10/15/2025. 

For this split-payment option there is a $150 deposit needed to hold one's spot ($100 deposit for Elder/Student ticket). If you register choosing the split-payment option and are hoping to receive one of the early bird discounts, your balance due must be paid by the relevant early bird deadline in order to receive the discount. For those registering after 10/10/25, full payment is due at once in order to register.

Refund Policy: You'll receive a full refund, minus $75, if withdrawn by 10/15/25. There are no refunds after that.

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What is the Training Format?

The training is large group presentation/demonstration with  work being done in small groups; the workshop involves a combination of relationship-building, teaching of theoretical foundations and first-hand experiences wherein theory comes to life. At times, this may involve instructors demonstrating their way of working with clients and inviting discussion in large groups; at other times, participants work in dyads or triads with each other, and receive feedback from instructors as they work.

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Who is This Training For?

This training is ideal for those who have not yet had any intensive training in E-H therapy or for those who have and are seeking a refresher or reinforcement of what they've learned. 

International and US based therapists/students are all welcome (the training is held in English). 

Mental health program students, psychologists, MFTs, social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, residents and doctors are all encouraged to attend!

I am a ___________ student is this good for me?  * Though the majority of  our attendees will be licensed in therapeutic clinicians, we welcome pre-licensed therapeutic professionals and students currently enrolled in Master's or Doctorate programs in related fields. We ask that Master's students have had clinical experience  before enrolling in this workshop.  New to practice clinicians who are in their early stages of their carrier are welcome.

Workshop Host: Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI)

Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI) offers trainings, workshops and education in Existential-Humanistic approaches to psychotherapy. Formed in 1997, EHI continues to offer experiential training retreats, certificate programs, workshops, consultation groups, theory courses and community gatherings in the Bay Area with the goal of supporting existentially and humanistically informed psychologies and psychotherapies: approaches that focus on and nurture subjective experiential reflection of life's deepest joys and predicaments.

 

Our Co-Sponsor: Society of Humanistic Psychology (DIV32 APA)

EHI would like to thank The Society of Humanistic Psychology  for the continued and whole-hearted support of our online offerings and courses. 

Division 32: Society for Humanistic Psychology recognizes the full richness of the human experience. Its foundations include philosophical humanism, existentialism and phenomenology. The Society seeks to contribute to psychotherapy, education, theory/philosophy, research, organization, management, social responsibility and change. The Humanistic Psychologist is the society journal, published quarterly.

Continuing Education for EHI Workshops (When Offered)

This program is approved for up to 16 CE credits for full participation         |         Fee: $70

 

APA Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

EHI endeavors to make this accessible for interested learners.  Please email Michelle at [email protected] (or phone at 415-689-1475) for disability accommodations and more course info.

LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCs: You too might be eligible for APA Continuing Education Credit for your renewals! 

Many state licensing boards for LPCs, LCSWs, and LMFT's also accept CE credits from an APA Approved Provider for their continuing education requirements. Please check with your Board to ensure they accept CEs from an APA Approved Provider like Society of Humanistic Psychology (DIV32 of the APA). Please reach out to Michelle if you need documentation for your board.

Example: California BBS accepts CEs from APA Approved Providers!

Per APA policies CE credit can be awarded when an attendee meetsthese requirements:

  1. Requests and pre-pays the CE fee.
  2.  Attends and participates in the live sessions in full. Attendees is logged in to all sessions for the duration; participating in all aspects of the large and small groups. Zoom will log the attendance and provide EHi with an attendance report which we submit.
  3. Completes post-workshop evaluations each day (anonymous). 

That's it!

Certificate of Completion will be issued by email after the requirements are met and documentation of attendance and evaluations is confirmed. There are no refunds if an attendee  does not meet the requirements. 

APA Division 32, Society of Humanistic Psychology APA Division 32, Society of Humanistic Psychology, is a proud cosponsor of CE credits for EHI events and trainings whenever CE credits are offered.  EHI is proud to continue to partner with APA Division 32, Society of Humanistic Psychology to provide quality programming.  Please check out their journal, conference and membership options online!

Waiver

There is a required waiver for attending and participating in this workshop due to both the topic and the format. This workshop in general, and the break-out groups in particular, will include experiential exercises that might be more likely to evoke emotional - including difficult emotional reactions than just presentational techniques.

EHI reserves the right to change the curriculum, if needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this workshop for? This event is designed for both US and International licensed/ pre-licensed professionals in the therapeutic fields.  Naster's/graduate students in therapeutic programs are very welcome. Students, therapists, psychologists, MFTs, social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, and doctors are all invited!

I can only register for one person, but I need to register 2 people. Reach out to Michelle at [email protected] and she will invoice you and send you codes so both attendees can register under their  own names and email addresses.

Is this workshop a live training only? Yes, this workshop will only be held live and include experiential engagement- it is not offered as a recording for on-demand viewing. 

May I attend with  my camera off?  Please no. Having your camera on during the sessions  is expected as this is an experiential hands-on workshop. We anticipate that enrollees will be engaging in the work and in the dyads and small groups. At times it is ok to turn off camera for short periods if you are not doing continuing education and you need to have camera off for a few moments. 

How do I get my Zoom link? It will be  in your Registration Confirmation email that will arrive minutes after your register- please check for your confirmation email.

Does this workshop have CEs?  This workshop is approved for up to 16 CE credits for live participation in 2025; for large group, dyads and small groups.  Fee: $70. CE participants are responsible for meeting the requirements and ensuring their licensing board accepts continuing education credit from an APA Approved Sponsor like ours, The Society for Humanistic Psychology (Div. 32 APA).  Many state licensing boards accept APA credit for Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, and Marriage & Family therapists (for example: CA BBS accepts APA CE credits) .  When offered the info will be updated to reflect availability. Previous registrants will be offered the opportunity to register for the credits via email and  online invoicing.

I cannot seem to register, what can I try? Try in this order: 1) select the number of tickets you would like to purchase and 2) initial for the payment agreement and the waiver. These need to be completed before continuing on to put in your info or your code. Email us if you have difficulty: Michelle at [email protected].

Do I need to give you my real email address? I am worried about spam; You do need to give a real email address as that is how you will get your Registration Confirmation email with access to the workshop and how we will communicate with you. No Spam! We will send you only reminder emails, thank you discount codes, and notes about upcoming events- but those will be created and initiated by us not the ticketing service. We will never share your info with a third-party. 

What if I have difficulty?  We will have some tech help in the Zoom Chat on the days of the workshop or text Michelle at 415-689-1475 or email her at [email protected] (dont use the program@ for time sensitive issues, please).

Registering for Another Person

If you would like to register for someone else - please reach out to Michelle at [email protected].. She will set you up with an invoice and when you have paid that she will give you a code for the attendee to register online themselves. 

TicketsPrice

General Licensed/Pre-Licensed Registration Single Payment (19 remaining)

The regular fee for this training is $685* (In effect on September 20th)

EARLY BIRD OFFERS:
Through 08/28/25: Professional tuition is $615
From 08/29/25 through 09/19/25: Professional tuition is $645

$615.00

Elder & Student Registration Single Payment (19 remaining)

Student=Currently enrolled in a Master's/PhD program; seeing clients.
Elder=65+ years
ee info:
The regular fee for this ticket is $635 (In effect on September 20th)

EARLY BIRD OFFERS:
Through 08/28/25: Student/Elder is $565
From 08/29/25 through 09/19/25: Student/Elder is $595

$565.00

General Licensed/Pre-Licensed Registration Split Payment (19 remaining)

General Licensed/Pre-licensed in therapeutic positions.

Put down a deposit towards your registration and you will be emailed an invoice for the balance due.

To receive any early bird discount, you must pay the full balance due by the relevant early bird discount deadline. After the relevant due date, the discount will expire and the amount due will increase to the ticket cost at that date.
Fee info: The regular fee for this training is $685 (In effect on September 20th)
EARLY BIRD OFFERS:
Through 08/28/25: Professional tuition is $615
From 08/29/25 through 09/19/25: Professional tuition is $645

Please note that in order to assure a place in the Nov 2025 cohort, all registrants must be paid in full by 10/15/25.

$150.00

Elder & Student Registration Split Payment (19 remaining)

Student=Currently enrolled in a Master's/PhD program
Elder=65+ years

Put down a deposit towards your registration and you will be emailed an invoice for the balance due.

To receive any early bird discount, you must pay the full balance due by the relevant early bird discount deadline. After the relevant due date, the discount will expire and the amount due will increase to the ticket cost at that date.
Fee info:
The regular fee for this ticket is $635 (In effect on September 20th)
EARLY BIRD OFFERS:
Through 08/28/25: Student/Elder is $565
From 08/29/25 through 09/19/25: Student/Elder is $595

Please note that in order to assure a place in the Nov 2025 cohort, all registrants must be paid in full by 10/15/25 at the latest.

$100.00
Total: $0.00

Continuing Education

  • Up to 16 CE Credits for $70 total

    Up to 16 CE Credits for $70 total

    Add this to request CE credits. Earn up to 16 credits by attending the program in full - start to finish, including small groups and dyads. Fill out CE evaluations for each day- the link swill be sent to you. Absence during a day of the workshop disqualifies attendee from earning the CE for that day. Zoom login records are used to "take" attendance. Please be on time to get CEs as an absence of more than 5 minutes of any portion is disqualifying per APA guidelines. CE Certificates of Attendance will be emailed to each CE participant who met the requirements.

    These APA CE credits are applicable to psychologists. LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCs: these CEs are often accepted by State Licensing boards for licensing renewals - if you are unsure please check with your board to see if they take CE credits from an APA Approved Sponsor.

    $70.00 ea.

EHI Core Skills in E-H Psychotherapy Online Workshop Payment Agreement Terms

I understand that I need to have paid in full in order to attend the EHI Core Skills Online Training, Nov 7 & 8 and Nov 14 & 15, 2025, and that in order to receive either of the early-bird discounts I need to be paid in full by the relevant early-bird deadline: the “Early early-bird” discount deadline of 8/28/2025 or the “Regular early-bird” discount of 9/19/25. I understand that if I do not pay the balance by the due dates above, I will not receive the relevant discount.

I understand that if I pay in full with this registration submission, I have completed registration and am enrolled in the November 2025 online training.

I understand that if I have paid a deposit and not the full tuition amount, I must pay the balance due by 10/10/25 at the latest in order to guarantee enrollment at full tuition amount. This means that the deposit holds my place in the training until 10/10/25, at which point there is no longer any guarantee that a spot in the training will be held for me. If there is no spot for me at that point, I understand that my deposit will be non-refundable per the refund policy.

Refund policy: You’ll receive a full refund, minus a $75 administrative fee, if withdrawn by 10/10/25. There are no refunds after that. 

My signature for the ‘Terms’ during the registration process confirms that I have read this Payment Agreement and understand its contents. I voluntarily agree to the above, including the Refund Policy, and understand that this is a binding financial agreement between Existential-Humanistic Institute, Inc. (EHI) and myself. I also understand that any requested changes to this agreement are subject to the review and approval of the EHI Board.

I will receive a link to download a PDF of this Agreement in my registration confirmation email.


Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy An Online Workshop
Existential-Humanistic Institute, Inc.
November 7, 8, 14 & 15, 2025
I acknowledge that I am voluntarily participating in an online workshop hosted and organized by Existential-Humanistic Institute, a California Benefit Corporation (hereafter referred to as “EHI, Inc.”). I am aware that, based on the subject matter and training methods of this workshop, I might experience strong and difficult emotions, and that this workshop might evoke challenging, personal psychological material. I am voluntarily participating in this workshop with full knowledge of the risks involved, and hereby agree to accept any and all risks of harm that might result from participating in the activities in this workshop.
I understand that due to the format of this online workshop, participants will occasionally be broken up into small groups and dyads for experiential learning opportunities and that during some of the dyadic experiences there will be no oversight from facilitators. I understand that this workshop in general, and the break-out groups in particular, will include experiential exercises that might be more likely to evoke emotional - including difficult emotional reactions than just presentational techniques. Experiential exercise might include role plays in which one or more participants play a therapist or facilitator and one or more participants play a client. I understand that if I role-play the client, I am not an actual client in a therapy session and that the participant(s) practicing psychotherapeutic skills while I am role-playing is not acting as a therapist in an actual therapy session. I understand that these role plays are not actual therapy sessions and that these role plays are for training purposes only. I also understand that I can leave this workshop at any time and that I am not required to participate in any exercises the facilitator suggests.
I agree that if I do have difficult psychological, emotional and/or somatic experiences while participating in this workshop, including in the role plays, I am personally responsible for therapeutically addressing these issues and that EHI, Inc. bears no responsibility. I hereby agree that neither I nor any of my family members or legal representatives will make a claim against or sue EHI, Inc., or its board members, contractors, affiliates, agents or volunteers for injury or damage arising from my participation in this workshop - excepting for clear acts of gross negligence or intentional harm by EHI, Inc.’s board members, contractors, affiliates, agents or volunteers. I hereby release EHI, Inc., its board members, contractors, affiliates, agents and/or volunteers from all actions, claims or demands that I, my family members and/or legal representatives might have or make for injury or damage resulting from my participation in this workshop - excepting for clear acts of gross negligence or intentional harm by EHI Inc.’s board members, contractors, affiliates, agents or volunteers.
I have carefully read this agreement and fully understand its contents. I am aware that this is a release of liability and a contract between me and EHI, Inc., and that my registering for this workshop that will be held November 7, 8, 14 & 15, 2024 (Pacific Time) is based on my consent to the above.
I will receive a PDF copy of this in my registration confirmation email.



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