Boulder Psychotherapy Institute

Training in Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) - Matching Therapists with Clients - since 1989

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Who We Are and What We Do

The Boulder Psychotherapy Institute (BPI) has been training therapists and graduate students in Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) since 1989. AEP interlaces the insights of contemporary existential and psychodynamic approaches with techniques inspired by Gestalt and other experiential therapies. Our faculty and staff also provide individual, couples and group therapy - and supervision.

We have become a hub for therapist community building in the Boulder-Denver area.

We offer services to local therapists and the public. Our online Find a Local Therapist Directory matches therapists with clients. We publicize workshops, lectures and events on our Therapist Community Calendar.
Our BPI Networking List allows over 850 local therapists to share information and the public to pose questions about therapy and therapists. Our Bi-Annual Networking Party draws hundreds of area therapists in August.

Betty Cannon, Ph.D., President - Reed Lindberg, M.A., L.P.C., Managing Director

Betty Cannon has a chapter, "Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP): An Experiential Psychodynamic Approach," in Existential Therapy: Legacy, Vibrancy and Dialogue, - Laura Barnett and Greg Madison. The book, just published by Routledge, can be ordered from Amazon, in US, in January.

BPI Workshops for Therapists

Fri, Nov 11 2011 - Fri, Oct 12. AEP Theory: Roots, Philosophy and Clinical Theory, Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393

Fri, Nov 18 2011 - Fri, Aug 17. AEP Dream Training, Robyn Chauvin, BPI - 303 494 0393

Sat, Mar 24. Therapeutic Journal Writing & Existential Therapy: An Intimate Relationship, Kate Thompson, BPI - 303 494 0393

Fri, Feb 8 2013 - Fri, Jun 20 2014. Applied Existential Psychotherapy Training (AEP): Individual, Relational, and Group Modules, Betty Cannon and Robyn Chauvin, BPI - 303 494 0393

Mon, Aug 18 2014 - Fri, Aug 29 2014. Summer International Institute in Applied Existential Psychotherapy, Betty Cannon and Robyn Chauvin, BPI - 303 494 0393

Ongoing Groups: Practice Groups, Process Groups, Supervision/Consultation Groups.


Community Calendar

Upcoming Lectures, Workshops & Events


Sat, Feb 4 - Sat, Feb 4. "Beyond Consequences Live!" Parent & Prof. Training with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, 407-965-1131

Sat, Feb 4 - Sat, Feb 4. I Want to Want Sex Again, 303.859.3010

Sat, Feb 4 - Sat, Feb 4. Starting a Private Practice Workshop, 303-442-4562

Tue, Feb 7. Advanced Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, 303-941-4497

Wed, Feb 8 - Wed, Mar 28. Life Sjills for Life Balance - An 8-week DBT Group, 303-506-0160


Review of Betty Cannon's
Sartre and Psychoanalysis

"Every once in a rare while a text comes along whose intellectual impact is such that it makes one want to shout: 'Please, whatever you do, READ THIS BOOK!' Betty Cannon's Sartre and Psychoanalysis is such a book... Her arguments and conclusions, as well as being stunningly original, shed light not only upon psychoanalytic practice, but (if implicitly) upon psychotherapeutic practice in general... I cannot praise this book too highly. For anyone interested in existential analysis, and most especially anyone practising such, Cannon's text is required reading. Thankfully, it is also pleasurable and eloquent reading, admirable for its clarity, authority and lack of academic pretension. In other words: a text destined to become a classic in the field."

—Ernesto Spinelli, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World and other influential books on existential psychology, in Existential Analysis, July–Sept. 1992, no. 3.

The BPI Networking List Story

Many of you have asked about how the BPI Networking List got started. Here's the story as we remember it.

The Networking List started out as a small paper list with contact information for about 40 people associated with the Institute back in 1992. The idea came out of one of Betty Cannon's consultation groups. We were brainstorming how to create more community and to promote cross referrals. We decided to create a list of BPI affiliates to further that project. The List grew over the years and is now an automated daily email digest where over 850 local therapists of all persuasions and orientations (and some coaches) post psychotherapy related messages. Messages are still monitored and approved by us to make sure that spam doesn't get through and that messages are psychotherapy related. Continue...

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