Carrie Ruggieri, LMHC, BCETS

Carrie has been an active member of the AEDP Institute since completing the Immersion course in 2007. She is the Editor in Chief of Transformance: The AEDP Journal (since 2024) where she served as Associate Editor since 2019. Her written contributions to the Journal include: Laura Hillenbrand: Author as True Other—Inspiring Quantum Resilience (Vol. 3); AEDP-Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (Vol. 8); AEDP Author as True Other: A Successful Application of the AEDP Ethos in a Self-Help Book—A Review of Ron Frederick’s Loving Like You Mean It (Vol. 9); and An Ecology of Core Self Flourishing (Vol. 13).

Carrie earned her Master’s degree in Psychology at The New School for Social Research and is a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. In her Rhode Island psychotherapy practice specializing in complex trauma, drawing on her developmental research background from the Margaret S. Mahler Observational Research Lab at The New School and the Infant Behavior Clinic at Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University. Alongside AEDP psychotherapy, she once offered Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and conducts trauma evaluations through the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic.