Cultivating Psychotherapist Artistry: Model Existential-Humanistic Training Programs

Humanistic psychotherapy research 1990–2015: From methodological innovation to evidence-supported treatment outcomes and beyond

“…Most other PTOs, and in particular humanistic therapy orientation, showed a significant linear decline. Levy and Anderson (2013) caution that even if important research findings from other PTOs, such as the benefits of a strong working alliance and therapist empathy are now co-opted into CBT, essential aspects of these HP clinical concepts and interventions are at risk of being stripped down, muddied, or lost in a conflation with CBT treatment principles when they are not guided and informed by bona fide humanistic training principles and expertise, acquired in the context of university-based HP clinics and training programs (Pierson, Krug, Sharp, & Piwowarski, 2015).…”

Existential–humanistic and existential–integrative theory.

“…The evidence supporting EH/EI training is strong within communities that foster such training (see Krug & Schneider, 2016;Pierson et al, 2015). This training, in our experience, is frequently deeply moving for students and touches them to the core.…”

Existential-integrative therapy: Foundational implications for integrative practice.

“…It values and incorporates the many conventional levels at which psychophysiological functioning has been viewed and addressed, but it also enables the transcendence of these in the service of a more holistic vision of therapeutic healing. This is a vision that has a growing constituency of support (Angus et al, 2015; Comas-Diaz, 2008; Bunting & Hayes, 2008; Pierson, Krug, Sharpe, & Piwowarski, 2015; Shumaker, 2011; Wolfe, 2008; Wampold, 2008; Watson & Bohart, 2015; Yalom, 1980), but that also will require continuous and rigorous investigation. I am appreciative of the editor of this journal for providing the space for this path-breaking and pragmatic modality.…”