H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD 

Jacquie Ye-Perman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Adjunct Faculty of the AEDP™ Institute, certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. She is also a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion) Committee and the AEDP International Development Committee.

Jacquie grew up in China. She obtained her master’s in Social and Developmental Psychology at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and her PhD in counseling psychology at University of Florida, USA. She attended her first AEDP Immersion course in 2013 and started receiving supervision from Dr. Diana Fosha soon after. In 2015 she assisted helming the first Immersion course in Shanghai, China, taught by Dr. Diana Fosha and Dr. Danny Yeung. Over the past eight years she has co-taught Immersion, Essential Skills, Core-training courses, and led several other AEDP training in the Chinese-speaking communities and later in English-speaking communities. She also provides individual and group supervision for trainees internationally.

Enjoying additional ways to immerse herself in the AEDP world, she also served as an experiential assistant numerous times and in one case Lead Assistant for Karen Pando-Mars,. She co-presented at the Society of Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration 35th Annual Meeting in 2019 on the application of AEDP across different cultures, and wrote on such topic in her paper published in 2018, and recently a chapter in the Chinese translated version of Diana Fosha’s 2000 book, the book she served as a co-translator. Seeing herself as “a stranger in a strange land” as an immigrant, and a life-long student wherever she is, she considers AEDP and the communities around it as the source of the most vigor and fun in her work, the deep meaning in her life pursuit, and the sense of home and belongingness.

Jacquie has strong interests in couples therapy and group therapy work and has provided training in that regard. Prior to starting her private practice in Grinnell, Iowa, she also worked at college counseling for years, and developed a focus on cross-cultural therapy work and strong sensitivity to social justice. In 2022, after helming the AEDP BIPOC Core-training course, she recognized such needs and has provided BIPOC group supervision for the past two years. She finds it deeply energizing to assist her BIPOC colleagues finding stretching space for their talents and passion in the AEDP world.

Jacquie is also a mother of two cross-cultural wondrous children, and partner of her ethnomusicologist husband from the U.S.