Yuko Hanakawa, PhD

Yuko Hanakawa, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City who was “raised” by AEDP from the very beginning of her career. She met Dr. Diana Fosha as a doctoral student at Adelphi University and has been deeply engaged with AEDP’s transformative healing process ever since, focusing particularly on body-mind connection, positive emotions, and moment-to-moment tracking.

Her contributions to the field include a chapter on moment-to-moment tracking in “Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0” (2021) and a clinical article on therapist-patient gratitude published in the AEDP Transformance Journal (2011). She has published extensively in Japanese, including her first AEDP book, “Transforming Your Counseling Skills: A Practical Method to Heal Emotions” (2020) and several professional papers. 

Passionate about expanding ethnic/racial diversity in AEDP, Dr. Hanakawa served as one of the founding co-chairs of the Diversity Scholarship Committee, which preceded the current DBEI Committee. She founded AEDP for JAPAN, which offers certification courses in Japanese. She has overseen Japanese translations of key AEDP texts, including Dr. Diana Fosha’s “The Transforming Power of Affect” (2017) and Natasha Prenn and Diana Fosha’s “Supervision Essentials for AEDP” (2024), and  Ronald Frederick’s “Living as You Mean It” (2022). She also contributed an AEDP chapter to “Integrative Psychotherapy Handbook” (2021) (in Japanese).

Previously a faculty member at St. Luke’s Hospital, Dr. Hanakawa now maintains a private practice in NYC.