The certificate program is open to licensed professionals who seek to enhance their clinical skills, and to full/half time students in a masters or doctoral psychology, counseling, social work or therapeutic arts program. It is also open to medical professionals and persons who currently hold at least a master’s degree in therapeutic arts or human services. 

Early Bird Discount Offers: $100 off with full tuition payment/$80 off with split tuition payment. Plus an additional $50 off when enrolling in optional Consult Group module. (Applicants accepted prior to May 20th are eligible!)

• 2021 Program Tuition Fee: $2,200*
• Retreat Food and Lodging Cost: $1205.00 (billed separately)

• • Appx 40 hours of experiential programming and hands-on skills training at the residential Experiential Training Course retreat.
  • Optional 10 hours of Video Consult with EHI Faculty: $400 [5 two-hour sessions; 1 session per month to begin in Fall following the Training Retreat]. $50.00 discount available to attendees during enrollment.
  • Food and lodging for 5 nights and 6 days, billed separately from tuition.  Due to contractual obligations many months in advance this fee is both non-refundable and non-transferable.
  • We hold our retreats at a beautiful conference center, Westerbeke Ranch, in the heart of Sonoma County. The cost includes modern, cabin-style shared lodging, superb family style meals and the use of all the facilities at Westerbeke such as the pool, hot tub and walking trails.

Westerbeke Ranch as a retreat center has historic significance for our community, as it was the meeting place for many of the seminal writers in E-H theory and practice such as Rollo May and James Bugental.

*Please note: coursework and tuition may be subject to change when necessary. Text books, travel cost to Sonoma, Westerbeke food/lodging costs, application fee and Continuing Education fees (when applicable) are not included in the tuition fee.

It is the policy of EHI to make every reasonable effort to provide qualified students with disabilities with the opportunity to take full advantage of its programs.

If you have a disability, please contact us ahead of time so we can work with you arrange the programming to needs. Please contact either our Admin, Michelle at program[@]ehinstitute.org or our Clinical Director, Nader, at info[@]ehinstitute.org to make arrangements.

Once accepted you can be enrolled in the program after we receive your completed payment agreement form outlining the payment schedule and your deposit and tuition are submitted. Tuition fees and Lodging costs are invoiced and you can pay this online securely. Michelle, our Admin Assistant, will assist in enrollment and can answer enrollment questions.

We hope the following information will guide you through the application process. If you have further questions or need additional assistance, please email us: program[at]ehinstitute.org.

How do I apply to an EHI program?

• 1. Get the EHI Program Application [WORD]
  Download the Application Here!
• 2. Fill out the application -select the Program track you are applying for. This is a Word doc but LibraOffice will work too. Please Save the application to your computer to send as an attachment. Please do not send scanned images. Contact Michelle if you need assistance regarding the application.
• 3. Email completed form as an attachment to the address on the application.
• 4. Submit the non-refundable $100.00 application fee via PayPal- the link is on the application.

What is the deadline for applying?

The cohort is filled on a first-come basis and when all spaces for the residential retreat are filled (max 17 cohort attendees). Applications are accepted year-round. Formal acceptance into the program and payment of deposit will hold your space in the cohort prior to tuition fee deadlines. Apply as soon as possible to secure a position in the program and to have the most payment plan options.

What happens after I apply?

Once received, your application will be reviewed by clinical team members and responded to within a 2-week period(maximum). Once accepted into your program of choice, a letter of formal acceptance will be sent to you and both Stephanie, the Clinical Training Coordinator, and Michelle, the Admin Assistant, will work with you to complete your enrollment.

At this point, we anticipate holding our 2021 Experiential Retreat Training in-person at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California, October 10 – 15. This is based on a best guess that it will be safe enough to meet in person by that time. (Please keep in mind that even though we’re anticipating that it will be safe enough, there might still need to be some social distancing protocols to follow.)

However,  there is the possibility that we might end up needing to cancel the in-person 2021 retreat and hold an online version of the training instead, depending upon the continued unfolding of the coronavirus pandemic and related administering of the COVID-19 vaccine. In registering for the October, 2021 in-person retreat (or 2021-2022 Certificate Program cohort), please be aware that we will make a final determination by August 1^st, 2021, as to whether we will continue with our current in-person plans or shift to an online option for October 2021 instead. 

If we shift to the online version, registrants will have the following options:

• 1. Take the online training intensive at the reduced rate. The online training tuition is $325 less than the in-person training (and there would, of course, be no lodging/food payment needed) and registrants would be refunded any difference they’ve already paid. The online training would begin October 10^th but would most likely end the 16^th instead of the 15^th. For those registered for one of the Certificate Programs, there would be no fee reduction for the Consultation and Theory Course components of the program since there would be no programmatic change to those components.

• 2. Transfer their tuition to either the 2022 or 2023 Experiential Retreat Training/Certificate Program cohort. The tuition fee would be locked in, so that even if the tuition fee increases, students who paid for 2021 would not have to pay the increased difference (the lodging/food fee is not locked in). In choosing to transfer, please keep in mind that currently the 2022 experiential retreat is scheduled for May 26 – 30, which means the 2022-2023 Certificate Program cohort would begin in May 2022; and the 2023 dates have not yet been set. We traditionally hold our experiential training in May or October.

• 3. Request and receive a full tuition refund, minus the $500 deposit. Of that deposit, $450 would be credited to the student’s account so he/she/they could apply that credit to any EHI event – including future Experiential Retreat Trainings – through the end of 2023.

If we decide on August 1, 2021, that we will be shifting to an online training for 2021 (and the 2021-2022 cohort), registrants will have till August 20, 2021 to decide which option they’ll choose. Again, we are optimistic we will be gathering at Westerbeke in October of this year, but we want to be as clear as possible about the potential for the need to adapt. We greatly appreciate your understanding during this challenging time!  

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

In order to attend the in-person October 2021 Experiential Training Course, enrollees must be fully vaccinated and able to show proof of that by October 1^st, 2021. (Fully vaccinated means being a minimum of 2 weeks past your 2^nd shot, or only shot, depending on the vaccine received). The only exceptions are for those with medical or religious exemptions. Those with these exemptions need to show documentation proving the exemption and show proof of a negative PCR COVID-19 test no more than 72 hours before the start of the experiential. Regarding mask-wearing, social distancing and other potential safety measures, EHI will be following CDC and local guidelines at the time, but those who have not been vaccinated due to an allowable exemption should anticipate being requested to wear a mask at all times when around others.