Recommended Organizations & Partners
Here are some organizations and individual sites that are recommended by the Existential-Humanistic Institute for more resources and information related to existential-humanistic therapy, existential therapy, depth-therapy, and E-H adjacent therapies. This list is always growing as we engage with more organizations nationally and internationally.
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AgeSong Institute, under the umbrella of Eldership Academy, is dedicated to teaching health care professionals and lay caregivers humanistic, process-oriented models for working with people in need of care and support.
The Existential Academy is a Community Interest company, based in West Hampstead in London and is the heart of the existential psychotherapy community.
EHI Europe promotes the development of humanistic existential therapists and advocates for a change in paradigm in the way we view and approach therapy. With training and making use of therapeutic presence we look to solidify the basis of a true therapeutic encounter. We consider the therapist-client bond to be an essential part of our work, irrespective of the therapist’s orientation, and a prerequisite to any technique used in therapy.
The Existential Movement exists to reduce interpersonal conflict and psychological suffering and to enhance well-being in the community. It is a non-religious, non-political movement, using existential ideas derived from existential philosophy, psychotherapy, and psychology to achieve these aims. Its motto is to ‘bring wisdom to the world’.
EHNW enlivens and enriches human experience through our commitment to being present with ourselves, others, society, and the mystery of life. We serve the healing professions, our clients, and the public through dialogue, education, training, and advocacy. EHNW is here to impact the world through existential-humanistic values of authenticity, integrity, responsibility, inclusion, and awe.
The Institute is an entity that provides higher education dedicated to training professionals of excellence in the field of Existential Analysis, with a high degree of competence and a broad social and humanistic sense, in order to respond to the social demands of the population and contribute to the purposes of integral development through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in areas of social professional services, teaching and research, among others.
EHI was a sponsor of the First International Conference on Existential Psychology held April 2-5 2010 in Nanjing, China. The theme of the conference which assembled more than 40 experts of existential psychology from over 10 countries was “An intellectual dialogue between East and West: How to face suffering and create value of life.”
GLE-International (Gesellschaft für Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse – Wien) is a non-profit and scientific association. Its aim is to further develop and make known the existential-analytical anthropology and its application in psychotherapy, education, ministry, social work, industry, work place and management
The Psychotherapy Action Network is a global community of mental health professionals and stakeholders dedicated to promoting psychotherapies of depth, insight and relationship. PsiAN aims to restore these therapies to their fundamental place in the mental health landscape through education and advocacy regarding their personal, economic, and sociocultural effectiveness in alleviating suffering and transforming lives. Online source for psychotherapy articles, resources and information on conferences and events.
Online source for Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy resources. Psychotherapy.net is founded and lead by Victor Yalom, Phd, and strives to produce the most useful resources to inspire therapists of all stripes and orientations. Streaming videos, continuing education, timely articles and interviews, and more!
The Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (RMHCPA) was founded in 2016 to promote and develop humanistic psychology in the Rocky Mountain Area. RMHCPA’s mission is to support and promote existential, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology and counseling, especially in contributing to psychotherapy, education, theory, philosophy of psychology, research methodology, organization and management, and social responsibility and change in the Rocky Mountain Area.
The Departments of Humanistic Psychology and Humanistic Clinical Psychology are premier centers for humanistic scholarship and research and carries forward the tradition of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Cen
This site includes information about the Society’s events, membership, and journal.
The Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) is an international, interdisciplinary organization whose aim is to promote the development of psychotherapies that integrate theoretical orientations, clinical practices, and diverse methods of inquiry.
Information about the American Psychological Association’s Division 32: the Society of Humanistic Psychology. Become a member, check out learning events, annual conference information and the membership journal.
Information on the departments curriculum, staff, and orientation.
This is the official website for the 4th World Congress of Existential Therapy that will be held in Denver Colorado in June 2026. The Congress theme is “Community, Authenticity, and the Mystery of Being.”
E-H Innovators and Thought Leaders
The personal website of Dr Längle, psychotherapist, physician, clinical psychologist, coach and professor. He serves as President of the International Society of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (GLE-I) and is a featured presenter internationally and is a lecturer at Austrian Universities in addition to those in Moscow and Mendoza, Santiago de Chile.
Blog written by EHI’s Dr Kirk Schneider and found on the Psychology Today blog network. Kirk is the president of EHI, one of the co founders and a core instructor. Based in San Francisco, California.
Jim Bugental was a founder of the American Existential-Humanistic movement and the ostensible ”father” of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI). In the mid-1980’s he created a series of intensive trainings called the “Art of Psychotherapy Program.” Numerous trainees emerged from these various learning events, including Myrtle Heery, Kirk Schneider, Orah Krug, and Nader Shabahangi, who went on to co-found, at Jim’s instigation, the Existential-Humanistic Institute. His website includes info about Jim’s therapeutic history, his books, videos and his therapy.”
Emmy is a philosopher and existential psychotherapist who is also a counselling psychologist. She directs her private practice Dilemma Consultancy in London and is also Principal of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the Existential Academy in London, both of which she founded with Prof. Digby Tantam in 1996.
Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as an author of both fiction and nonfiction. His website includes information about Irvin Yalom’s writing, videos and teachings.
This site includes information about Dr Kirk Schneider, his publications and therapy practice, as well as excerpts from media appearances.
Home page for the Victor Frankl Institute. This site contains audio and video archives, a bibliography, and a comprehensive history of the origins of Logotherapy.
