Learn a non-pathologizing, integrative model for transforming life crises and struggles into turning points for growth and purpose.
Quarter-life, mid-life, and later-life crises aren’t signs of failure – they’re wake-up calls for meaning.
When your clients confront turning points – the 25-year-old anxious about direction, the 50-year-old facing divorce or burnout, the retiree negotiating time’s finitude – they’re not symptomatic …
They’re coming to you wrestling with the fundamental questions of existence. Who am I? What matters? What now?
Your crucial role as a therapist is to help these clients find their path.
In this workshop, Dr. Pavel Somov, licensed psychologist, author and existential therapist, presents his Existential-Developmental approach – a non-pathologizing, clinically integrative model for transforming life crises into opportunities for growth, authenticity, and purpose.
Through clinical vignettes, guided reflection, and experiential practice, you’ll learn how to:
… and so much more. Walk away from this training with a new framework for how you support your clients through life’s transitions and biggest struggles.
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Foundations: Orienting to the Existential-Clinical Stance
The Four Awakenings: Mapping Existential Crises Across the Lifespan
Foundations of Theory and Model Integration
Transforming Crises Through Existential and Meaning-Centered Therapies
Early Life Crisis: The Birth of the “I” (Ages 0-10)
Quarter-Life Crisis: Emerging Adulthood (20s-30s)
Mid-Life Crisis: Consciousness as Turning Point (40s-50s)
Late-Life Crisis: Aging, Legacy, and Gerotranscendence (60s and Beyond)
Eastern Winds: Existential Insights from Buddhist Psychology and Non-Dual Traditions
Ethics, Research & Limitations
Pavel Somov, PhD, co-owner of Existential-Dynamic Associates, is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 25 years of clinical experience working with self-criticism, crises of meaning, shame, guilt, perfectionism, affair recovery, eating disorders and anger management. Dr. Somov is on the advisory board for The Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and has conducted a variety of trainings for mental health professionals both domestically and internationally on applying mindfulness-based interventions to a variety of psychological issues. His work has been discussed in a number of radio interviews and in print publications including Martha Stewart’s Body + Soul Magazine and Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine. Dr. Somov is the author of Anger Management Jumpstart: A Mindfulness Path Away from Anger to Equanimity (I-Catching Books, 2024) as well as a number of self-help books on perfectionism, overeating, and addiction. His books have been translated into Dutch, Vietnamese, Estonian, Portuguese, and Russian.
Dr. Somov has also published in peer-reviewed journals on the topics of group-based logotherapy, hospice research, group-based psychodrama, and on the interplay of time perception and pain intensity. Dr. Somov grew up in Moscow, Russia and after the service in the Soviet military immigrated to the US in the early 1990s. He lives with his wife and his daughter in Pittsburgh, PA and is passionate about downhill skiing, chess, water polo, CrossFit and cold exposure.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Pavel Somov maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Vista Behavioral Health Associates. He receives royalties as a published author. Pavel Somov receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Pavel Somov is a member of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the Greater Pittsburgh Psychological Association. He serves on the advisory board for the Mindfulness Project.
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Foundations: Orienting to the Existential-Clinical Stance
The Four Awakenings: Mapping Existential Crises Across the Lifespan
Foundations of Theory and Model Integration
Transforming Crises Through Existential and Meaning-Centered Therapies
Early Life Crisis: The Birth of the “I” (Ages 0-10)
Quarter-Life Crisis: Emerging Adulthood (20s-30s)
Mid-Life Crisis: Consciousness as Turning Point (40s-50s)
Late-Life Crisis: Aging, Legacy, and Gerotranscendence (60s and Beyond)
Eastern Winds: Existential Insights from Buddhist Psychology and Non-Dual Traditions
Ethics, Research & Limitations
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