Michigan School of Psychology
When you walk through our doors, you step into an environment that is rich in human interaction, and collaboration, while focusing on realizing one’s full potential. At MSP each individual’s uniqueness is valued; students learn to accept and prize others and to more fully understand the human experience.
In a rigorous academic and clinical environment, students experience the personal growth that results from self-study, self-acceptance, and self-confidence. Our cohort model acts as a laboratory for the study of relationship. Students are given the opportunity to discover their inner resources as a means of becoming effective change instruments for others.
As an MSP student you’ll be trained in establishing life-changing therapeutic relationships, which lies at the core of humanistic psychology. You’ll learn how to communicate clearly, confront when necessary, manage conflict, and sit with others’ emotional distress. You’ll find yourself among faculty members who model excellence in all aspects of the psychology profession, including academics, clinical competency and scholarly research.
Saybrook University
Saybrook University relentlessly pursues a socially just, sustainable world by educating humanistic leaders who transform their fields and communities and approaches education with a belief in the inherent interconnectedness of all things. As scholar-practitioners, our faculty continue to question and offer alternatives to mainstream axioms—fostering positive social transformation. Because the value of life cannot be measured, we strive to facilitate the potential of every living being to thrive in a just, inclusive, and sustainable world. Members of the Saybrook community keep alive the spirit of innovative and creative approaches as they confront the complex challenges of our time.
From the Saybrook Humanistic Clinical Psychology Program
Saybrook University was founded by scholars who understood human beings to be interconnected with the world around them, to help us relate better to one another by exploring human behavior in responsible and curious ways. The uniqueness of Saybrook’s psychology and clinical psychology degree programs lies in our heritage of humanistic, existential, transpersonal, and phenomenological inquiry. Saybrook faculty, alumni, and students continue to question, critique, and offer alternatives to many of the axioms of mainstream academic psychology and professional practice, including those of the now predominant biomedical model. Through creativity, spiritual commitment, sound research, scholarly writing, and integrative professional practice, members of the Saybrook community keep alive the spirit of innovative and creative approaches to the increasingly complex issues of our times. The psychology and clinical psychology degree programs both offer students a foundation of scholarship and practice based in the tradition of existential, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology. Learning encompasses a course of study that takes the student beyond traditional field-specific boundaries to focus on such subjects as consciousness, spirituality, integrative health, creativity, innovation, and leadership, and existential and humanistic psychology.
Saybrook’s programs are offered online or through a hybrid-online format, making them accessible anywhere in the world. With this flexibility, Saybrook offers graduate students the opportunity to impact the world through positive outcomes in their own communities.
Our shared humanistic legacy
The Department of Humanistic Clinical Psychology and the Department of Humanistic Psychology in Saybrook’s College of Social Sciences together comprise the heart of the legacy of the Old Saybrook Conference held in Connecticut in 1964. Luminaries such as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Gordon Allport, and Rollo May came together at that time to articulate the need for a psychology of the whole human being to address what was lacking in other emerging approaches to psychotherapy and psychological research. They, and other innovative thinkers including James Bugental, Henry Murray, Viktor Frankl, Charlotte Bühler, and Virginia Satir, realized an approach to psychotherapy and human science that did not reduce human beings to fragments of their life experience.
Under May’s original guidance and inspiration, what is now Saybrook University evolved as a distance learning institution over the past five decades, expanding on and giving birth to vibrant and creative offshoots of the original vision. Today, these two departments embody and impart through their curriculum a truly expansive view of the prosocial human being seeking meaning and wholeness in the context of multicultural, global social justice, ecological sustainability, and deeper spiritual awareness and connection. Our programs affirm cultural humility and respect for indigenous sources of our cherished notions about healing and living the good life.
EHI specializes in Existential-Humanistic therapy (E-H) professional enrichment programs, training, and events for both licensed therapeutic professionals & graduate students.
At the heart of EHI’s existential psychotherapy training programs is the Experiential Training Course Retreat. During this retreat, attendees experience an immersion in the existential-Humanistic perspective and have the opportunity to develop therapeutic skills in a safe, supportive and intensive residential setting.
EHI offers courses on the principles of existential-humanistic practice and case seminars in existential-humanistic (E-H) theory and practice. Most of EHI’s instructors have trained extensively with such masters as James Bugental, Irvin Yalom and Rollo May, and are among the most highly trained existential-humanistic practitioners in the country.
Themes covered in EHI training include: existential-humanistic philosophy and practice, the inner search process, subjectivity and encounter, the responsibility of the therapist. These courses explain existential-humanistic conceptions of resistance, meaning and alignment, existential spirituality, and integrative existential practice.
EHI provides a forum, a “home”, for those mental health professionals, scholars, and students who seek in-depth training in existential-humanistic philosophy, practice, and inquiry. EHI is for trainees who believe that in optimal psychotherapy, as Rollo May said, it is not this or that symptom, but “the life of the client” that is “at stake” – and that it is precisely this life that must be supported, accompanied, and encountered.
The goal of the institute – via both its curriculum, events, and newsletters – is to support existentially and humanistically informed psychologies and psychotherapies throughout the world. By “existentially informed” we mean perspectives that stress freedom, experiential reflection, and responsibility. By “humanistically informed” we mean purviews that address two overarching questions – What does it mean to be fully, experientially human, and how does that understanding illuminate the vital or fulfilled life?
The Existential-Humanistic Institute
FairSky Foundation
FairSky Foundation provides personalized psychological care to individuals, couples, families, communities and organizations, recognizing both the individual and shared humanity of all people.
We emphasize a compassionate approach to our services, collaborating with our clients to identify their difficulties, the potential causes, and the agreed upon goals of the services to be provided. Our licensed professionals proceed from the principle that every person, family and community is entitled to dignity and respect.
As a 501 (c)(3), not-for-profit organization, FairSky advocates for psychological, social & ecological justice for people from all walks of life, by promoting the wellbeing of individuals, families, communities & organizations, through the provision of low cost and no cost professional services.
Regardless of a client's presenting problem or social identity, FairSky and its professionals and staff strive to realize our values in all endeavors: Compassion, Fairness, Cooperation, Autonomy, Generosity, Authenticity, Dignity, Inclusive Diversity, and Privacy
The Radical Well-Being Center
Radical Well-Being Center offers psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families, group therapy, massage, reiki and decolonized healing and energy work, nutrition counseling from a non-diet/Health at Every Size/intuitive eating perspective, educational workshops, and community events. Our therapists are trauma-informed and work from a social justice and harm reduction perspective.
Because high-quality mental health and physical wellness services have been historically inaccessible to Black people, LGBTQIA people, non-Black people of color, people with disabilities, and people in polyamorous or non-traditional relationships, we seek to include those who have been excluded from these services with a focus on accessibility and representation.
Radical Well-Being Center believes in the value of every individual, affirms lived experience, and recognizes the impact of stress, trauma, and oppression on people, our community, and our environment. We offer mental, spiritual, and physical well-being services. Self-acceptance is a radical act. Self-love is a revolution. Be radical. Be revolutionary. Be you. You are welcome here.
Guiding Principles: Cultural Humility, Personal Growth, Accountability, Accessibility and Inclusion, Community, Shaping Change, Collective Wisdom, Reducing Harm
As a community, we care for ourselves, one another, and the environment that supports us.
Point Park University provides innovative undergraduate and graduate education in a dynamic urban setting. Dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement, we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill, and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed citizens and successful professionals.
One of the most dynamic, private urban universities in America with an intense focus on student success through distinctive, innovative, and experiential learning, promoting academic excellence, focusing on student needs, fostering a community of mutual respect and diversity, encouraging innovation, ensuring integrity and ethics in our actions, responding to our stakeholders, and facilitating civic engagement.
We provide psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Our therapists are experts in a variety of concerns, including life transitions, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief & loss, relationship issues and other conditions which people face during times of distress. We have therapists on staff who are skilled at working with individuals, couples, and families, via telehealth or in person.
That said, we're all grounded and rooted in the Existential-Humanistic orientation which "encourages clients to take ownership of their choices and actions. This process involves recognizing one’s freedom to choose, accepting the consequences of one’s choices, and taking responsibility for one’s life" (Kayne Hodge, Mentalhealthcenter.org).