Welcome to the Existential-Humanistic Northwest December 2025 Lunch & Learn:
December 12, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Online only
What if the most important moments in therapy are the ones that never make it into the notes?
In this Lunch and Learn, Justin invites us to slow down and rediscover the ethical and transformative power of everyday moments that matter. Together, we will explore how existential love, understood not as emotion but as a way of being with, calls us into deeper responsibility, presence, and care.
Justin will also invite us to notice how we experience time in our work, the difference between the clock time of our profession and the living time that opens when connection deepens. These shifts in time can guide both clinical practice and renewal in our own lives.
Through story, reflection, and brief experiential exercises, we will attend to the subtle hauntings that accompany our work: the clients who linger, the futures we hope for, and the love that quietly shapes everything we do and the world we live in.
Come ready to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the living heart of therapy. Our world could use it.
About the Facilitator
Justin W. Rock, LMFT, LPC, is a therapist, AAMFT-approved supervisor, educator, and writer, grounded in existential-humanistic and relational-ontological practice. He teaches in the Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy and Art Therapy programs at Lewis & Clark College and maintains a private practice in Portland, Oregon.
Justin’s work explores ontological haunting, kairos, and existential love as ways of understanding presence and responsibility in both leadership and therapy. He is a past president of Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW) and a doctoral student at Antioch University, where his research examines knowledge generation, epistemological justice, and phenomenology as they shape relational healing and the tension between liberation and oppression.
Learn more at
www.justinwrock.com
