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

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

Nance Reynolds, PhD, LCSW
CO DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING, Core Instructor, Private Practice

Sonja Saltman, MFT
Communications director, EHI Secretary, EHI core instructor, Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas and Nevada

Scott Gibbs, MFT
Board Member-at-Large, Private Practice

Doug Silberstein, MFT
treasurer, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Stephanie Weissman, PsyD
CLINICAL TRAINING COORDINATOR, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Bonnie Rose, MA, MFT
Board Member-at-Large, Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice
Additional Affiliate Instructors

Christine Armstrong, LMFT
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Theresa Beldon, MA, LMFT
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Kenneth Bradford, PhD
John F. Kennedy University, California Institute of Integral Studies

Kitty Chelton, MA, MFT
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Bob Edelstein, MA, MFT
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Louis Dangles, MFT
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Louis Hoffman, PhD
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice

Almudena Sánchez Mazarro, MS
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice, Assoc Prof Comillas University

Ed Mendolwitz, PhD
Affiliate Instructor, Faculty, Saybrook University & Lecturer, Tufts University

Ilene Serlin, PhD
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice & Professor Psychology, CIIS

Troy Piwowarski, PsyD
Affiliate Instructor, Private Practice
Advisors

Chris Aanstoos, PhD
State University of West Georgia

Diane Blau, PhD
President/ CEO Michigan School of Professional Psychology

Daniel Burston, PhD
Duquesne University

Amedeo P. Giorgi, PhD
Adjunct Faculty Saybrook University

Thomas Greening, PhD
Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology Saybrook University

Cathy Jenni, PhD
University of Montana

Stanley Krippner, PhD
Saybrook University, California Institute Integral Studies

Orah Krug, PhD
Founding Member EHI,Private Practice & Adjunct Faculty Saybrook University

Mary Madrigal, PhD
Chicago School of Professional Psychology, University of Phoenix

J Fraser Pierson, PhD
Southern Oregon University

Donna Rockwell, PSYD
Private Practice, Professor/Public Relations at Michigan School of Professional Psychology
Founding Honorary Chairs (Deceased)

James F T Bugental, PhD

Elizabeth Bugental, PhD
In Memorium

Carmi Harari, PhD

Michael Mahoney, PhD
