Public Relations and Fundraising

Sonja Saltman, MA, MFT, co-founder of EHI, has also been in private practice for
20 years in Las Vegas, Nevada after training extensively in various
humanistic modalities, amongst others Gestalt, Existential, Redecision
Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Group Therapy and Imagery. Sonja was also
co-founder of Therapy Institute, an organization offering continuing
education seminars in principles of the humanistic-existential tradition
featuring well known presenters in the field. Therapy Institute also
offered an employee assistance program to local organizations in Nevada
as well individual and group therapy.

Sonja, together with her husband Michael, a lawyer, has helped establish a Center of Conflict Resolution at the Law School of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a center that
combines both law and psychology to provide programs to students wishing
to train in conflict negotiation. The Center has offered presentations
and workshops in combination with other organizations such as Harvard
Law School and the Woodrow Wilson Center to both students as well as the
general public. In its short existence it has already placed 9th in
ranking amongst national Conflict Resolution Centers at Law Schools due
to its excellent programs and its outstanding academic and research
leadership.