Congratulations to Orah Krug, PhD and Kirk Schneider, PhD on Upcoming Book "Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy"

The latest book in APA's Clinical Supervision Series is authored by Orah Krug and Kirk Schneider.

Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy

by Orah Krug, PhD and Kirk Schneider, PhD Pages: 184
Publisher: APA
Item #: 4317423
ISBN: 978-1-4338-2281-0
Publication Date: May 16,2016
Format: Softcover
Availability: Preorder

 Find out more and preorder the book today on the APA website,

EHI would like to congratulate Dr's Orah Krug and Kirk Schneider on the upcoming publication of their new book Supervision Essentials for Existential–Humanistic Therapy. 

Excerpted from the Cover:

This concise guide applies the principles of existential–humanistic (E-H) therapy to the practice of clinical supervision. With the skillful use of case examples—including transcripts and analyses of real sessions with a real clinical trainee—the authors utilize the key ingredients of the E-H therapeutic approach, including empathy, acceptance, and genuineness, to model how trainees can create safe, collaborative, and supportive relationships with clients. E-H supervisors help trainees learn to enter their clients’ self-constructed worlds, using their own personal contexts to develop responsiveness to clients, while also cultivating the “presence” that enables genuine encounters and real therapeutic change.
This book is part of the American Psychological Association Clinical Supervision Essentials Series, the central resource for understanding contemporary models of psychotherapy supervision. 

 Recommendations for Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy:

"This book is a clear, concise, and comprehensive guide to the art of clinical supervision. It skillfully teaches beginning supervisors the essentials of cultivating curiosity and empathy, examining interpersonal process, and respecting the uniqueness of each client. I recommend it highly."

—Irvin Yalom, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

"Krug and Schneider, as leaders in the existential–humanistic therapy movement, offer an essential read in Supervision Essentials for Existential–Humanistic Therapy. They aptly demonstrate the supervision process in existential–humanistic therapy through showing its uniqueness from other approaches and illustrating how it is rooted in the existential–humanistic tradition. This book is sure to help advance existential–humanistic therapy through deepening the training and supervision process."

—Louis Hoffman, PhD, Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, Saybrook University; Author, Existential Psychology East-West

Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy by Orah Krug, PhD and Kirk Schneider, PhD. - Pre-order the book today on the APA website.

For information about the companion DVD for this book, please visit APA webpage for Existential–Humanistic Psychotherapy Supervision with Kirk Schneider, PhD, please visit the http://www.apa.org/pubs/videos/4310953.aspx

Experiential II Intensive Retreat at Westerbeke: 2015/2016 Cohort Group Photo

The current 2015/2016 EHI cohorts have finished the second intensive experiential retreat of the curriculum year!

EHI Announces Experiential Dates for Upcoming 2016/2017 Cohorts

EHI 2016/2017 Experiential Dates Announced

EHI is excited to once again hold the program Experiential Residentials at lovely Westerbeke Ranch.
The students who are accepted into the upcoming cohorts will enjoy the wonderful ambiance and food that are provided by the fantastic staff and environs of Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California. 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.

Experiential Dates for 2016/2017 Cohorts

Experiential I
• Sun, October 23rd, 2016 - Thurs, October 27th, 2016
Experiential II
• Fri, March 24th, 2017 - Tues, Mar 28th, 2017
Visit the Westerbeke Ranch website to see where we hold our retreats!

EHI's Sonja Saltman works in triad with students at Experiential

Enrollment is Open for 2016-2017 Education and Training Programs

Orah Krug, Ph.D. EHI Clinical Director

EHI's 2016/17 teaching staff, Orah Krug, Kirk Schneider, Sonja Saltman, Nader Shabahangi, Mary Madrigal and Troy Piwowarski invite you to join one of our three unprecedented Existential-Humanistic education and training programs this upcoming 2016/2017 curriculum year. 

EHI offers a Certificate in the Foundations of E-H Practice for students looking for a basic grounding in E-H therapy practice, an Advanced Program awarding a Certificate as an E-H Therapist for students who have completed the Foundations Program and the Modular Training Program for students who would like to participate in EHI's two curriculum year Experientials.

Apply to an EHI Program Today »

Troy Piwowarski and Orah Krug at EHI Retreat

Questions?
We are here to answer them!

Do you have questions about a program or about becoming an EHI student?
Orah Krug, our Clinical Director, and , EHI's Student Coordinator and Teaching Assoicate will be happy to give you more information and to answer your questions about the upcoming EHI programs.

Contact either Orah or Troy by email: info@ehinstitute.org

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AgeSong Gero-Wellness Interns Video on E-H Therapy Practices in ElderCare and AgeSong Communities

During their AgeSong Orientation the Pacific Institute Gero-Wellness program participants learn about contemporary Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy practices in use at AgeSong. Nader Shabahangi and Vincent Siekiewicz each discuss how E-H Therapy pertains to the work done by the therapy interns in the AgeSong communities. Nader discusses how the Gero-Wellness Interns can engage in existential-humanistic relationships with the residents in the coming year.

AgeSong 2014 Intern Orientation: Day 1 Session 4 video

Nader Shabahangi asks the interns what they think Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy is. The interns come up with great responses including:

• "It is a person to person centered approach"

• "To be really present with other"

• "Relationship"

• "Be open to all kinds of ways of looking at life"

• "Walking with"

• "Being a witness to the journey"

• "Be with the other"

• "Lose myself to be open to the other"

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Nader points out traditional therapy is antithetical to the concept of being “present”  where the therapist is supposed to have a “hypothesis” about what is going on with the client.

Vincent Sienkiewicz talks about how E-H Therapy pertains to working with elders at AgeSong communities. Vincent presents the view that Jim Bugental’s put forward, that E-H Therapy is another level beyond Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Psychodynamic Therapy.

Here is an excerpt from Vincent’s discussion on Jim Bugental’s view of these levels:

“Existential-Humanistic Therapy is the ability to not just kind of understand who you are, but to also realize the greater freedom of existence and the ability to kind of adjust that greater sort of picture and to change, you know, with the times. ”

And the connection that this has with this population is the fact that these older adults have been through alot of these changes.

I believe that this population is particularly ripe for exploring these issues of existence, who they have been in the past and who they are now, who they’d like to be and how to shift it.”

Nader finishes the session with a discussion into the differences between “process comment” and “content comment” and how it pertains to the work within the “moment.”

View the AgeSong Educational Series videos here on the AgeSong Library of Videos page. Watch Existential-Humanistic Therapy training in practice in San Francisco's visionary humanistic assisted living communities for the elders of the Bay Area.

Heidi Wachter of Experience Life Magazine Interviews Kirk Schneider on "Awe"

Interested in finding out how to bring awe-based consciousness into your life? EHI can recommend a recent article that includes an interview with Dr Kirk Schneider of EHI. Written by Heidi Wachter and featured in the December, 2015 issue of Experience Life magazine.

Awestruck
by Heidi Wachter, Experience Life Magazine, December 2015

Heidi Wachter, staff writer of Experience Life magazine, writes a timely article on awe and leads readers to "discover how the feeling of awe can make us humbler, kinder, and more altruistic."

In her article Heidi conducts a Q&A with Kirk Schneider, PhD on "Becoming Awed." She asks Kirk some specific questions on the positive impact of awe, on how we "tap into awe-based consciousness," and how we can cultivate more awe in our life.

Read the whole article, Awestruck, by Heidi Wachter on  Experience Life Magazine's website or read the excerpt of the interview with Kirk Schneider on his blog, Awakening to Awe, on PsychologyToday.com.

Bob Edelstein writes on "The Existential Crisis of Birdman"

Bob Edelstein presents an existential crises embodied in Innaritu's 2015 movie "Birdman" starring Michael Keaton. In his article "The Existential Crisis of Birdman" on PsychologyToday Bob discusses the existential struggle to become your authentic self.

"As humans, we all struggle to understand both who we have been and who we want to be — a struggle which centers around accessing and expressing our present, authentic self and releasing aspects of our old self. I recently saw a powerful representation of this struggle in the movie Birdman. Riggan Thomson — played by Michael Keaton — is a former movie star known for his portrayal of the superhero icon, Birdman. The role, one he played 20 years ago, made Riggan a celebrity. His fans don’t want him to be anyone else. "

Read "The Existential Crisis of Birdman" on PsychologyToday.com.