Joanna M. Berrio Kipnis, LCSW

Joanna is a Colombian, multi-racial, licensed clinical social worker, with over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Joanna has an online practice, works with supervisees worldwide, leads supervision groups, with a special interest in leading BIPOC supervision groups, and sees clients located in New York and Colorado.  Joanna started her career as an activist in New York, and as a therapist has specialized as a complex trauma therapist working with refugees, immigrants, queer and trans communities, and other victims of crimes. Today she works mainly with people who hold healing spaces for others.

Joanna’s AEDP journey began in NYC over a decade ago; and she has come to respect, to love and to integrate AEDP’s principles in her professional and personal lives as a way of being with others, not just as a model. AEDP’s transformational framework is not just at the heart of her clinical work with clients and with supervisees, it’s also foundational in the anti-oppression work she does.

Joanna is also a certified trauma therapist, certified in EMDR, an EMDR Consultant in Training, and has training and experience in EFT for couples, family therapy, play therapy, parts/IFS/ego states work and somatic experience, polyvagal theory, and interpersonal neurobiology.  She also has training and experience integrating her ancestral earth-based and spiritual traditions, with her work as a psychotherapist. With AEDP as a foundational framework, she weaves in these various modalities to support her clients and supervisees to connect with their core self, transformative experiences.