Emmy van Deurzen
Professor, Principal NSPC, Existential Academy, London, United Kingdom

Emmy van DEURZEN is a philosopher and professor of psychology and psychotherapy with 18 books to her name, translated into well over a dozen languages. She is the Founder Director of the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the Existential Academy (www.nspc.org.uk) (www.existentialacademy.com), in London, where she also runs her private practice Dilemma Consultancy (www.dilemmaconsultancy.com)

Born and raised in the Netherlands, she lived, studied, and worked in France before settling in the UK in 1977. Emmy has been instrumental in founding or cofounding numerous organizations, including the Society for Existential Analysis, the Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe and the World Confederation of Existential Therapy. She has practised as a therapist to help people face their life problems since 1973.

Amongst her books are the bestsellers Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (3d edition 2012), Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009), Everyday Mysteries (2nd edition Routledge, 2010) and Paradox and Passion (2nd edition, Wiley, 2015). Her book Rising from Existential Crisis was published with PCCS books in 2021. She is currently writing a book on Existential Freedom for Penguin.

Her website is: www.emmyvandeurzen.com. She is a human rights campaigner on Twitter as @emmyzen and she has made hundreds of videos for YouTube.

Alfried Längle
Professor, Psychotherapist, Physician, Clinical Psychologist | Honorary President of the International Society of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (GLE-I), Vienna, Austria

Alfried LÄNGLE, M.D., Ph.D. (psychology), born 1951 in Ausria, founder (1983) and long-term president of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (Vienna), was scholar and collaborator of Viktor Frankl. He is professor of psychotherapy at the Moscow’s HSE-university and Vienna’s Sigmund Freud University. For his development of modern Existential Analysis and his over 400 publications he got two honorary doctorates and six honorary professor degrees as well as the Golden Medal for Merits for the Republic of Austria.
www.laengle.info

Kirk Schneider
Licensed Psychologist, Council of Representatives, APA (Humanistic Psychology) | Adjunct Faculty, Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University | President of the Existential-Humanistic Institute, San Francisco, USA

Kirk J. SCHNEIDER, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology. Dr. Schneider is a cofounder and current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (an award-winning psychotherapy training center), a two-term Council Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and a two-time Candidate for President of the APA. He is also past president (2015-2016) of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32) of the APA, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005-2012), a trained moderator for the conflict mediation group Braver Angels, and an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and he is Guest Instructor at the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Schneider is also an Honorary Member of the Society for Existential Analysis and the East European Association for Existential Therapy. He received the Rollo May Award for “outstanding and independent contributions” to the field of humanistic psychology from the Society for Humanistic Psychology, APA and is a Fellow of five Divisions of the APA (32, 42, 12, 29, and 24). His work on existential-integrative psychotherapy has been featured in a special issue of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration (March, 2016) and is the inspiration for the psychotherapy training program of the Living Institute, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Schneider has published over 200 articles, interviews and chapters and has authored or edited 13 books including The Spirituality of Awe, The Polarized Mind, Awakening to Awe, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, Existential-Humanistic therapy, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy, and The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing. Dr. Schneider’s work has been featured in Scientific American, the New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Psychology Today, BBC World News and many other health and psychology outlets. For more information on Dr. Schneider's work visit https://kirkjschneider.com.

Susana Signorelli
Licensed Psychologist, President of CAPAC Foundation, Honorary President of ALPE (Latin American Association of Existential Psychotherapy), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Licenced in Psychology. Buenos Aires' University.
Lanfranco Ciampi Award.
Honorary President of ALPE (Latin American Association of Existential Psychotherapy).
President of the CAPAC Foundation. Argentina.
President of the II World Congress of Existential Therapy. Buenos Aires. 2019.
Honorary member of several institutions and congresses, international juries, arbitration and scientific committees, director of mental health prevention programs, research consultant, organizer of scientific events, supervisor, international speaker.
She is the author of (5) books, compiler and author of (3) books, chapters in books (7) and articles in scientific journals, in Argentina and in other countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the United Kingdom). Foreword to (3) books.
Director and editor of the virtual Latin American Journal of Existential Psychology "A comprehensive approach to being".

Ernesto Spinelli
Professor, Ernesto Spinelli and Associates, London, United Kingdom

Professor Ernesto SPINELLI has gained an international reputation as one of the leading contemporary trainers and theorists of existential analysis as applied to psychology and psychotherapy as well as the related arenas of coaching and conflict mediation. He is a Fellow and Chartered Counselling Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 1999, Ernesto was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology. In 2000, he was awarded the a BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent text, Practising Existential Therapy: the relational world, 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice.