Supervision Essentials for Existential–Humanistic Therapy

This concise guide applies the principles of Existential-Humanistic 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.

Orah T. Krug, PhD, has been clinical director of training and education at the Existential–Humanistic Institute of San Francisco (EHI) since its inception in 1997, where she oversees its educational offerings, developing the curriculum and the programmatic structures for the varied training programs.
 
Dr. Krug leads the faculty and supervises the teachers-in-training at the experiential retreats, in Sonoma County CA. Information about the educational programs are available on the Existential–Humanistic Institute website. She also maintains a private practice in Oakland and Sausalito, CA, is an adjunct faculty member of Saybrook University, and is an editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. In addition to this text, she and Kirk Schneider co-authored Existential–Humanistic Therapy (2010), which is part of APA's Theories of Psychotherapy Series.
 
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential–humanistic psychology, is a graduate of Saybrook University, where he was mentored by James Bugental and Rollo May.
 
Dr. Schneider is the president APA Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology, 2015–2016), recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005–2012), cofounder and vice president of the Existential–Humanistic Institute, and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University.
 
His previous books include The Paradoxical Self, Rediscovery of Awe, Awakening to Awe, Existential–Integrative Psychotherapy, Existential–Humanistic Therapy (with Orah Krug), and The Polarized Mind.
 
Dr. Schneider's primary interests are helping to broaden the therapeutic field through the individual and collective applications of existential–integrative practice and the spirituality of awe, or the humility and wonder, and sense of adventure toward living.