This experiential session is designed to increase your access to presence in real time through somatic awareness—supporting more reliable regulation, deeper attunement, and greater relational impact in your clinical work. Through guided practice, you’ll engage the lived body as a steady, responsive resource—strengthening your work with clients and naturally extending into the relationships you value most.
This workshop explores what is distinctive about an existential approach to supervision. In attempting to do so, it will address several key aspects in the practice of existential therapy that can be transposed to supervision from an existential therapy perspective. As well as lecture and discussion, participants will have opportunity to take part in a live demonstration of this approach to supervision.
What if the most important moments in therapy are the ones that never make it into the notes?
In this Lunch and Learn, Justin invites attendees to slow down and rediscover the ethical and transformative power of everyday moments that matter. Together, participants will explore how existential love, understood not as emotion but as a way of being with, calls us into deeper responsibility, presence, and care.
How do you know you’re actually helping?
Facilitated by: Clare Knudsen, BS, and Sara J. Smith, MA, LMHCA
Hosted by: EHNW in Portland
In this EHNW salon designed for those old and new to the field, participants have a collective conversation about this and alternative understandings of what it means to actually “help” someone. Through an Existential-Humanistic framework, attendees will consider aspects of helping that expand on and diverge from the dominant managed care model.
Keynote Speaker: Kirk Schneider, PhD
Host: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)
This day-long workshop will explore how anxiety is hitting the roof in our practices and world precisely because we so often fail to address the underlying or primal anxiety that fuels greater and more destructive anxiety. That which Kirk terms “life-enhancing anxiety,” is a level of anxiety that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence. Or to put it more concretely, it fosters our capacity to live more on the edge of wonder and discovery rather than terror and overwhelm.
Facilitated by Lindsey Lerner, PhD Psilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety Date: Friday, September 12, 2025Time: 1pm–2:30pm Pacific TimeFee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates Online: via ZoomHost: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) Participants will gain a better understanding of Oregon’s psilocybin service model, including the roles of preparation, administration sessions, and integration, while […]
Facilitated by: Carol Swanson, LCSW and Gestalt Practitioner
Dates: September 2025 – May 2026. Meeting first Friday of each month.
Online: via Zoom
Host: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)
This is the 3rd year this seminar is being held. It is designed for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and clinicians who are interested in deepening their work through philosophical reflection and dialogue. We will explore ethical, hermeneutic, and humanistic dimensions of clinical practice by reading Donna Orange’s The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice.
Clinician Self Care - Suicide Prevention Awareness Presenter: Michaele P. Dunlap, PsyD June 13, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Location: OnlineRegular Pricing: $20 for Professionals, $15 for Students, and $0 for EHNW affiliates Dr Dunlap's description: "That human beings sometimes commit suicide is a fact. As mental health professionals we are required to understand suicide […]
Join EHNW for a discussion in how we can support our clients when they explore their concerns about our current political situation. An Existential value is that we are all Beings-in-the-World. We are not separate from what is going on.
2025 Theme: Wisdom, Meaning and Hope for Humanity Join Pioneers in Existential Thought! The Global Existential Summit #4 Programme Day 1 | Monday 6th January 2025Pninit Russo-Netzer: A Philosophy of The Beauty and Gravity of Being Human | IsraelRobert Stolorow: A Philosophy of Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion In Emotional Trauma | USAMarc Boaz: A Philosophy Exploring […]
E-H Reading Group - Open to All Facilitated by: River Heisler w/ EHNW Board Members Ryan Brown and Justin Rock This Existential/Humanistic (EH) reading group is a space to engage creatively, constructively, and spontaneously with the works of philosophers belonging to a large stream of “existential” and “phenomenological” thought (terms with which we will certainly […]
In this workshop, the presenter will introduce an original approach to psychotherapy based upon the premise that emotional healing is fundamentally a psycho-spiritual event. This approach offers a unique way of integrating the values of authentic presence, intentionality, and meaning rooted in the Humanistic-Existential-Phenomenological orientation with the spiritual depth of Buddhist and Transpersonal Psychology. Its theoretical foundation is based upon the interweaving of three elemental assertions (see the event page for more details).
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