Meet the EHI Team

Many of the active members of the EHI team have trained with James Bugental, PhD, Rollo May, PhD, and/or Irvin Yalom, MD. The team members are authors, educators, lecturers , researchers who engage locally and internationally in projects and organizations to grow and evolve existential-humanism in the therapeutic fields.

EHI Board Members and Instructors

Kirk Schneider

Kirk J Schneider, PhD, PSY

President, EHI Core Instructor, Adjunct faculty at Saybrook University & Teachers College, Columbia University, Private Practice

Nader Shabahangi

Nader Shabahangi, PhD, MFT

Vice President, Co Director of Clinical Training, EHI Core Instructor, CEO Elder Ashram Community, Private Practice

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Nance Reynolds, PhD, LCSW

CO DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING, Core Instructor, Private Practice

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Sonja Saltman, MFT

Communications director, EHI core instructor, Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas and Nevada

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Scott Gibbs, MFT

Board Member-at-Large, Private Practice

Doug Silberstein

Doug Silberstein, MFT

treasurer, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Stephanie Weissman, PsyD

CLINICAL TRAINING COORDINATOR, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Bonnie Rose, MA, MFT

Board Member-at-Large, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Additional Affiliate Instructors

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Christine Armstrong, LMFT

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Theresa Beldon, MA, LMFT

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Kenneth Bradford, PhD

John F. Kennedy University, California Institute of Integral Studies

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Kitty Chelton, MA, MFT

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Bob Edelstein, MA, MFT

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Louis Dangles, MFT

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

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Louis Hoffman, PhD

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Almudena Sanchez Mazarro, MS

Almudena Sánchez Mazarro, MS

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice, Assoc Prof Comillas University

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Ed Mendolwitz, PhD

Affiliate Instructor, Faculty, Saybrook University & Lecturer, Tufts University

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Ilene Serlin, PhD

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice & Professor Psychology, CIIS

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Troy Piwowarski, PsyD

Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Advisors

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Chris Aanstoos, PhD

State University of West Georgia

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Diane Blau, PhD

President/ CEO Michigan School of Professional Psychology

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Daniel Burston, PhD

Duquesne University

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Amedeo P. Giorgi, PhD

Adjunct Faculty Saybrook University

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Thomas Greening, PhD

Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology Saybrook University

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Cathy Jenni, PhD

University of Montana

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Stanley Krippner, PhD

Saybrook University, California Institute Integral Studies

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Orah Krug, PhD

Founding Member EHI,Private Practice & Adjunct Faculty Saybrook University

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Mary Madrigal, PhD

Chicago School of Professional Psychology, University of Phoenix

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J Fraser Pierson, PhD

Southern Oregon University

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Donna Rockwell, PSYD

Private Practice, Professor/Public Relations at Michigan School of Professional Psychology

Founding Honorary Chairs (Deceased)

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James F T Bugental, PhD

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Elizabeth Bugental, PhD

In Memorium

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Carmi Harari, PhD

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Michael Mahoney, PhD

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Natalie Rogers, PhD