Next Core Skills Training Workshop November 2025 Stay Tuned for Registration

Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy - An Online Workshop

If you are able to join this training at the last moment – please consider joining the waitlist. 
Michelle will be reaching to those on the waitlist when/if an opening becomes available.

Please fill out this contact form to join the waitlist.

[The 2024 Description is Archived here for reference. The 2025 curriculum and format will stay the same. We hold this workshop once per year. ]


4 Half-Days Over 2 Weekends

Friday, November 7th, 2025 
Saturday, November 8th, 2025
&
Friday, November 14th, 2025 
Saturday, November  15th, 2025 

 

Registration Will Open in Late July – Stay Tuned. 

32 Places will be available. 

We will announce the opening of registration via our mailing list.

 

This is a fully remote workshop – online via Zoom!

Format: This is an hands on Intensive. It is a “Cameras On” workshop and is held in English.

Continuing Education*: We offer this as continuing education for psychologists each year. This workshop was approved for up to 16 continuing education credits in 2024.

Separate CE Fee: $TBA; attendees requesting this will be invoiced prior to the training.

An Existential-Humanistic 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. 

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. 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 client and therapist understand identity construction and de-construction
  • 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

 

Format: This is an Online Intensive. Large Groups, Demonstrations, Small Group engagement, and hands-on dyad work. Cameras On. Held in English.

Who is This Training Designed For?

This training is ideal for those who have not yet had any intensive training in E-H therapy and does not require any didactic preparation. The workshop is also an excellent refresher for those who have had prior training and are seeking reinforcement of what they’ve learned.

This training works in and of itself but can also be a precursor to the longer residential training EHI holds each year. This training is not related to, nor a substitute for any portion of the separate Foundations in Existential-Humanistic Therapy Practice Certificate program.

International and Domestic Clinicians and Practitioners are welcom

Times (All Pacific Time)

Friday, 1/26/24: 12pm – 4pm

Saturday, 1/27/24: 8am – 3:15pm (including one hour break for lunch)

Sunday, 1/28/24: 8am – 3:15pm (including one hour break for lunch)

Fees: TBA

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 (65 and older) and Student (Master’s or PhD clinical program)

Early Early Bird Offer through 8/15/24: $615 General | $565 Elder/Student
Early Bird Offer From 8/16/24 – 9/15/24: $645 General | $595 Elder/Student

Two Payment Options Available: If you register by 9/15/24 you can either pay in full or choose the split-payment option. 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 09/15/24, full payment is due at once in order to register.

Refund Policy: You’ll receive a full refund, minus $75, if withdrawn by 10/10/24. There are no refunds after that.

More Info Available on the Enrollment Page!

*Continuing Education Info:

APA Approved Sponsor logo

This program was approved in 2024 for up to 16 CE credits for full participation for all days. Separate CE Fee.

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 via the contact form for disability accommodations and more course info.

Can You Use These CEs?

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

State licensing boards for LPCs, LCSWs, and LMFT’s often 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 for Humanistic Psychology. (CA BBS accepts these CE credits.

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