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

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Sonja Saltman, MFT

SECRETARY
Communications director

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Scott Gibbs, MFT

Member-at-Large

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Bonnie Rose, MA, MFT

MEMBER-AT-LARGE

EHI Instructors

Nader Shabahangi

Nader Shabahangi, PhD, MFT

EHI Clinical Training Committee
EHI Core Instructor (On Sabbatical)

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Nance Reynolds, PhD, LCSW

EHI CLINICAL TRAINING COMMITTEE CHAIR
EHI CORE INSTRUCTOR

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Sonja Saltman, MFT

EHI CORE INSTRUCTOR

Kirk Schneider

Kirk J Schneider, PhD, PSY

EHI Clinical Training COMMITTEE (Acting)
EHI Core Instructor

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Stephanie Weissman, PsyD

EHI Clinical Training COMMITTEE
EHI Affiliate instructor

Doug Silberstein

Doug Silberstein, MFT

EHI Affiliate Instructor

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Bonnie Rose, MA, MFT

EHI AFFILIATE INSTRUCTOR

Almudena Sanchez Mazarro, MS

Almudena Sánchez Mazarro, MS

EHI Affiliate Instructor

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Bob Edelstein, MA, MFT

EHI Affiliate Instructor

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Scott Gibbs, MFT

EHI Affiliate Instructor

Chris Deussing,

Chris Deussing, DSW, LCSW, C-DBT

EHI Affiliate Instructor

Teaching Assistants

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Chris Bradshaw, PhD, LPC

EHI Teaching Assistant & Clinical Training COMMITTEE

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Joshua Diliberto, LCMHC, NCC, RYT

EHI Teaching Assistant & Clinical Training COMMITTEE

Additional Affiliated Instructors

Advisors

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Chris Aanstoos, PhD

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Diane Blau, PhD

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Daniel Burston, PhD

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Stanley Krippner, PhD

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Orah Krug, PhD

Founding eHI Member

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J Fraser Pierson, PhD

Founding Honorary Chairs

In Memorium