About the Conference Organizers

Conference Co-Chairs

Louis Hoffman, PhD, is a core faculty member of the University of the Rockies and a licensed psychologist in Private Practice at the Center for Growth in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Heals provides training in existential psychology through the Depth Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Hoffman was a co-editor/contributor to Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy, The God Image Handbook for Spiritual Counseling and Practice, and Spirituality and Psychological Health. He is active in writing and presenting on existential psychology, historical and philosophical issues in clinical psychology, diversity issues, and religious/spiritual issues in psychotherapy.

Mark Yang, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist from the United States. He earned his Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) in 1994 from Fuller Theological Seminary’s, Graduate School of Psychology. Dr. Yang was born in Taiwan and immigrated with his family to the United States when he was nine years old. Dr. Yang embraces the fact that he is a dog lover and laments the fact that he is unable to properly raise a dog here in Asia. Dr. Yang’s professional interests include:  Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Grief and Bereavement, and Existential Psychotherapy.