Sometimes a client’s crisis brushes up against your own.
And when you’re working with clients on the largest questions a person can face – death, meaning, isolation, freedom – your own struggles and fears inevitably come up …
… and shape how present and how helpful you’re able to be.
This training helps you hold space with more steadiness, grounded in the philosophy behind existential psychotherapy and the ethical principles for staying present when this work reaches you too.
Watch ethics expert Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT, who will explore how existential countertransference emerges across diverse clinical settings, including identity transitions, grief, life-stage changes, illness, end-of-life care, and other situations that prompt clients and therapists alike to confront fundamental questions of existence.
You’ll learn how to:
This work doesn’t leave us untouched, and that reality carries real ethical weight.
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The Weight and Wonder of Existential Philosophy
Existential Psychotherapy: Sitting in the Dark with Someone
Elements of Existential Psychotherapy: What is it that we do?
The Ethical Tightrope of Existential Work
Countertransference: When the Work Hits Close to Home
Models and Interventions for the Hardest Conversations
Self-Care: An Ethical Obligation, Not a Luxury
Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT, holds an MA in counseling psychology and a PhD in couple and family therapy from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lind Seal teaches ethics at two universities and regularly conducts trainings on ethics and cross-cultural issues at the local, regional and national level. She is currently adjunct associate professor at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and core ethics faculty (adjunct) at Chaminade University of Honolulu. She has extensive training in teaching and learning: at Saint Mary’s she was a Teaching Fellow (2013-2014), and she completed the Preparing Future Faculty Certificate Program at the University of Minnesota in 2014.
Dr. Lind Seal’s research has been published in Psychology Today, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Family Process. She has published several case studies and an ethics focused “In Consultation” piece in the Psychotherapy Networker and has reviewed for The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (UK). She is currently conducting a scholarship of teaching and learning research project examining the impact of her cultural context ethical decision-making model on graduate students’ cultural growth and ethical decision-making at Chaminade University of Honolulu.
Dr. Lind Seal’s professional memberships are with the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, for which organizations she has created, presented and recorded numerous trainings and webinars on a variety of ethical issues. She has been participating in ongoing monthly anti-racism groups through NEAFAST for the last three years.
She has a completely virtual private practice where she works with individuals, couples and family, and offers ethics consultations to colleagues. She has been interviewed as a content expert by MPR, CNN.com, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune and has for the last 9 years has been a regular on-air contributor on Relationship Reboot, a weekly segment on relationships on WCCO TV’s Channel 4 (CBS Twin Cities).
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The Weight and Wonder of Existential Philosophy
Existential Psychotherapy: Sitting in the Dark with Someone
Elements of Existential Psychotherapy: What is it that we do?
The Ethical Tightrope of Existential Work
Countertransference: When the Work Hits Close to Home
Models and Interventions for the Hardest Conversations
Self-Care: An Ethical Obligation, Not a Luxury
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