Betty Cannon, Ph.D., is the president, co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She has trained therapists and worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for over 30 years. She is an internationally known author, lecturer and workshop presenter. Her book, Sartre and Psychoanalysis, is considered a classic in existential psychology.

Betty's long experience in the field has not diminished her passion for her work. She feels privileged to have shared so deeply with so many people over the years. Her life has been enriched by the courageous work of her clients and students.

Betty is a licensed psychologist and certified Gestalt therapist. Her approach combines Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic and body oriented interventions into an approach called Applied Existential Psyhchotherapy (AEP). She works with adults on a variety of issues from the most complicated trauma and deepest developmental issues to creativity and life enhancement.

Betty is enthusiastic about groups and offers many on-going therapy, training and supervision groups. She believes that group therapy is a dynamic and effective approach for working with issues as they arise between people in the room in the here and now. Clients often work with interpersonal issues that deepen to their sources in the family of origin. Therapy groups are limited to six members and include both men and women. Betty currently has two therapy groups meeting on Monday and Thursday evenings. They have periodic openings for new members.

Betty holds doctorates in both literature and psychology. In addition to her book on existential psychoanalysis, she has also written many well received book chapters and journal articles on AEP, Gestalt and existentialist therapy. She is the executive contributing editor for the section on existential psychoanalysis for the prestigious Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis.

Betty is a member of the editorial boards of three professional journals: Sartre Studies International, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, and Existential Analysis. She is professor emerita of the Colorado School of Mines, where she taught literature and psychology for twenty years. She is senior adjunct faculty in the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Master's Program at Naropa University and adjunct professor at Regis University. She is a former president of the Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society and former chair of the North American Sartre Society. She offers trainings for mental health professionals in AEP, Gestalt, existential, group and trauma therapy at the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute.