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, 2023 Conference Committee Member, 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, 2023 Conference Committee Co-Chairperson, CE Committee Member, CEO Elder Ashram Community, Private Practice
Nance Reynolds, PhD, LCSW
CO DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING, Core Instructor, Communications Assistant, CE Committee Member, Private Practice
Sonja Saltman, MFT
Secretary, EHI Core instructor, Communications Director, 2023 Conference Committee Co-Chairperson, Honorary Consul for Austria in Las Vegas and Nevada
Scott Gibbs, MFT
Director-at-Large, Teaching Assistant, Communications Assistant, Private Practice
Doug Silberstein, MFT
treasurer, Affiliate Instructor, Workshop Coordinator, Communications Assistant, CE Committee Member, Private Practice
Stephanie Weissman, PsyD
Director-at-Large, Affiliate Instructor, Clinical Coordinator, Private Practice
Bonnie Rose, MA, MFT
Director-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