Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy Fall 2025

September 19th Update: The workshop has filled.

Still interested? Join the waitlist. Please fill join the waitlist via this form.

We try to keep the small groups even in number so we are offering a waitlist in case of withdrawals. 

If you are able to join this training between Sept 20th and the start of the workshop, please consider joining this waitlist. If you can be flexible chances are good. Historically we have had withdrawals.

 If you are not available to register after a certain date, please include that information. 

Michelle will be reaching to those on the waitlist when/if an opening becomes available.

FULL SCHEDULE: 9AM-1:15PM Pacific Time Each Day

Friday, November 7, 2024 2025 (4.25 hours)
Saturday, November 8, 2025 (4.25 hours)
Friday, November 14, 2025 (4.25 hours)
Saturday, November15, 2025 2025 (4.25 hours)

• Hosted and Facilitated by EHI Instruction Team
• Experiential & Hands-On
• Via Zoom
• Mandatory Cameras On Participation
• Continuing Education*: Approved for up to 16-Hours of CE Credit; $70 fee

Core Skills in Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy Practice- An Online Continuing Education Workshop

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 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 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

Who is this training 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.

Am I eligible as a practitioner?

We offer this to licensed and pre/licensed professionals who work in clinical therapeutic settings, no matter the modality. See our blog posts on Existential-Integrative therapy. Therapists, counselors, social workers, nurses, doctors, and more are very welcome to join this training. If you are unsure or would like more information please reach out to see if we would be a good fit for each other. This workshop is appropriate for Master’s and PhD students with clinical experience. International practitioners are also very welcome!

Tuition Fee Schedule and Offers

Regular Tuition starting Sept 20th: $685* for General (Licensed/Pre-Licensed) | *$635 for Elders (65yrs+) & Students (enrolled in a Master’s/PhD program with hands-on clinical experience).

Early Bird Offer 8/29/25-9/19/25: $645 General | $595 Elder/Student

Please see the Registration page for payment plan options and withdrawals/refund information.

*Continuing Education Information

This program have been approved for up to 16 CE credits for full participation for all days (4 credits per day). CE Fee is separate: $70. Many state boards accept CE credits from our APA approved co sponsor. Example: CA BBS accepts these credits for renewals.

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 reach out to Michelle via our contact form for course info and accessibility arrangements.