REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION FOR THREE LEVELS OF EXISTENTIAL ANALYSIS TRAINING:

Subject to adjustment

Formula for Requirements and Other Details

Individual Self-Experience Formula

• 50-60 minute session counts as 1 hour

**Self-experience should begin within a few months of beginning program and be approximately every 4-6 weeks

**Self-experience should begin within a few months of beginning program and be approximately every 4-6 weeks

**Self-experience is a training/educational process, which includes for the trainee the purposes of further integration of EA themes, strengthening the structure of their personality, and processing of their EA learning journey.  Although SE may at times be deeply therapeutic, it is not therapy.   

**The SE provider is responsible to support the training and educational objectives of the program in collaboration with the trainers of the cohort.  SE is mostly a process between the trainee and the SE provider, but where appropriate, there may be transparency, so to keep in alignment with the training and guidance objectives of the trainer(s).  The focus is also on enhancement of the trainee’s dialogical capacity.

Small Groups Self-Experience Formula

• 1 hour counts as 1 hour (working time, not including social time)

Minimum 10 meetings per year (20 hours or more per year)

Supervision Formula

• EA seminar supervision: 45 minutes counts as 1 hour (generally, full day has 6 hours working supervision time to equal 8 hours)

• EA group supervision with EA approved supervisor: 45 minutes counts as 1 hour

• EA individual supervision with an approved EA supervisor: 45 minutes session counts as 1 hour 

** At least two approved supervisors

** Recommended is 1 hour supervision after 4 hours client work, progressing to 1 hour supervision after 6 hours client work, and then 1 hour supervision after 10 hours of client work.  More case support needed for beginning therapists.  Established therapists will have too many clients to all be EA supervised.  Process of cases to be guided by lead trainer(s), who also will be providing supervision within the seminars. 

**These 150 hours supervision are for the practical work and separate from the 30 hours supervision required for the practicum

**Supervision is titled ‘supervision’ in name, but in actuality is ‘consultation’.  An EA supervisor delivers the role as consultant while giving supervisory guidance congruent with the training / educational objectives of this part of the program.  They can sign for the completed supervision hours required for the training, but they are not responsible for the trainee's clients or case load. 

**It is recommended for trainees to have another additional supervisor or consultant that they can call on for needed support or emergencies.  For the practicum, it is assumed that each trainee will also have supervision from the organization of their practicum placement.

Practical Work Requirements

• one-on-one counselling with informed consent of the clients

• with the 150 hours supervision

• for psychotherapy diploma, 400 hours of practical work to be done after clinical training begins

• can be continued after the seminars have ended

• minimum 200 hours to be in-person

Practicum Requirements

• all options for practicum must be approved by your trainer

• can also be part of a degree or other training program

• a diploma or degree with 550 hours supervised practicum or internship prior to EA training can be considered

• maximum 200 hours on-line

• 30 hours with an approved EA supervisor

• if a practicum with accompanied supervision is approved by your trainer, then a final structured supervision with your trainer still needs to be done, hopefully in a group with each person presenting a one-hour summary of their practicum experience

Case Presentation

Reports submitted to the supervisor after finishing each case (not the thematic case presentations) - 2 pages each, including:

• Name abbreviated (or pseudo name)

• Diagnosis (existential, clinical, and psychopathological)

• Hours of sessions

• Supervisor

• Interventions

• Psychotherapy process

• What have I learned in my understanding and role as a psychotherapist?

Paper Formula

• The paper can be on practical themes (example: case studies, application of methods, comparison with other therapeutic procedures, etc.) or theoretical questions (anthropological themes, philosophical themes, psychological themes, etc.) or it can be done as a literature work discussing for example, a book from Yalom  

• The paper must deal with EA contents and include EA literature

• 1.5 line spacing

• Paper to be done after the completion of:

  - seminars

  - exams

  And for psychotherapy diploma, also after the:

  - practicum

  - practicum supervision