Dear AEDP Community,

The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is delighted to share wonderful news and celebrate an important professional milestone.

Avi Klein has officially been recognized as an AEDP Certified Supervisor. This distinction follows a thorough and thoughtful review of his clinical work, supervisory capacities, and depth of understanding of the AEDP theoretical framework. The Review Board unanimously affirmed both the quality of Avi’s work and his readiness to step fully into this role.

Congratulations, Avi! Your dedication to ongoing learning, growth, and clinical excellence is deeply evident, and your achievement will undoubtedly enrich our AEDP community.

We also extend our heartfelt appreciation to Avi’s supervisors — Yuko Hanakawa, SueAnne Piliero, Dale Trimble, Goretti Faria, and Ron Frederick — whose mentorship, guidance, and support were integral to his journey toward becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor. Your contributions helped shape and support this accomplishment.

Please join us in warmly celebrating Avi and this significant achievement. Those who wish to offer congratulations or connect personally are warmly invited to do so via backchannel at @avikleintherapy@gmail.com.

You can also view Avi’s AEDP Certified Supervisor bio here: https://aedpinstitute.org/faculty/avi-klein/

Avi shared the following reflections on his journey:

“My relationship with AEDP began more than fourteen years ago as a patient while I was in graduate school. I remember sitting with the experience thinking, ‘What was that?’ and ‘I want more of this.’ I trained as a therapist, fell deeper in love with the model, and I’m sure I began supervising as a way to continue my own learning — and boy, did I learn! I feel very honored to now be certified as a supervisor.

I think I have been extraordinarily lucky in my supervisors, and I am so grateful that Yuko Hanakawa, SueAnne Piliero, Dale Trimble, Goretti Faria, and Ron Frederick have shaped how I am as a therapist and how I show up in the room. I worked with them because I wanted to emulate them, and I hope I do them justice.

I’m also deeply appreciative of my supervisees, who are so trusting in sharing their work with me, and whose collegiality makes it a pleasure to do supervision each week.

And of course, none of this exists without Diana Fosha, who gifted us this beautiful model and community, which I’m grateful to be a part of in this new way.”

With great appreciation,
Avi
on behalf of the AEDP Supervisory Review Board

Avi is Accepting new Supervisees

View Avi’s Bio here

Dear AEDP Community,

The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is pleased to share an important professional milestone and warmly celebrate a new achievement within our community.

Courtney Poignand has been formally recognized as an AEDP Certified Supervisor. This designation follows a comprehensive review of her clinical and supervisory work, as well as her demonstrated depth of engagement with AEDP theory and practice. The Review Board unanimously affirmed both the excellence of her work and her readiness for this role. Congratulations, Courtney—your commitment to ongoing learning, clinical integrity, and growth is clearly reflected in this accomplishment and will continue to enrich our community.

We also extend our sincere appreciation to Courtney’s supervisors, Kate Halliday and Kari Gleiser, whose guidance, mentorship, and steady support were integral throughout this process. Your contributions were deeply meaningful to this achievement.

We invite the community to join in celebrating Courtney’s certification. Those who wish to reach out directly may do so at: poignand@yahoo.com.

Courtney’s AEDP Certified Supervisor bio and availability can be viewed here on the supervisors page.

Courtney shares the following reflections on her journey:

Today, becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor feels like coming home.

What a joyful and deeply meaningful milestone this is.

My AEDP journey began in 2014. I became a Certified AEDP Therapist in 2021, and today I am thrilled and honored to join this extraordinary community as a Certified Supervisor. Along the way, I also became a Certified Psychedelic Somatic Psychotherapist. These milestones reflect a path that has transformed not only my professional work, but also the way I move through the world.

The journey wasn’t always easy. There were seasons when life asked much of me, and at times the path felt long. Yet those very experiences became part of the learning, strengthening my trust that growth often unfolds not despite life’s challenges, but through them. Perhaps that’s why this moment feels so much like coming home—not because the path was easy, but because every step belonged to it.

As a somatic, holistically oriented therapist, AEDP has deepened my trust in our remarkable capacity to heal, grow, and move toward greater connection and self-realization when held within the safety of secure relationships. It is an extraordinary privilege to witness authenticity, vitality, and aliveness emerge. This work continues to fill me with hope, wonder, and awe.

My heartfelt gratitude goes to my supervisors, teachers, mentors, my AEDP therapist, friends, colleagues, patients, and supervisees. Special thanks to Molly Eldridge, Steve Shapiro, Karen Pando-Mars, Kari Gleiser, Kate Halliday, Jenn Edlin, Ben Medley, Diana Fosha, and many others who have accompanied me along the way.

I step into this new chapter with joy, humility, and excitement. I welcome inquiries about individual and group supervision and look forward to connecting with colleagues who share a passion for transformational healing.

Here’s to the journey—and to all that is still unfolding.

Thank you

On behalf of the AEDP Supervisory Review Board

View Courtney’s Supervisor Bio here

Courtney is accepting new supervisees:

Dear AEDP community,

We are happy to share and celebrate a meaningful professional milestone:

Shelley Carr is now a new AEDP Certified supervisor and has received formal recognition following a rigorous review of her clinical practice, professional capabilities, and command of the theoretical framework! 

After a thoughtful and detailed consideration of the submitted materials, the review panel reached a unanimous decision to confer this certification — reflecting both high standards of excellence and clear readiness for this role. Shelley has mastered AEDP theory, skill sets and its basic orientation of supporting dignity, kindness, sensitivity and personal integrity. She modeled it in her attitude and implicit and explicit communications. Congratulations, Shelley! We deeply appreciate your continued commitment to growth and development. Your achievement will undoubtedly enhance and benefit our community as a whole.

We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to Shelley supervisors, Kate Halliday and Ben Medley, who accompanied this journey. Your attentive mentorship and steady support helped nurture Shelley’s progression and made this accomplishment possible.

This is truly a shared success for all three of you!

Please join us in warmly congratulating Shelley.

With much joy for this news,  

The Supervisory Review Board. 

Please view Shelley’s Supervisor Bio here

Dear AEDP community,

We are delighted to share and honor an important professional achievement: Mimi Steele is now an AEDP Certified Supervisor and has been officially acknowledged as such after an assessment of her clinical work, competencies, and depth of theoretical understanding! 

Following an examination of the submitted materials, the review board reached a unanimous decision to award this certification. 

Congratulations, Mimi, and thank you for continuing to grow and evolve in your professional journey. Your accomplishment will strengthen and inspire our entire community.

We also wish to express our heartfelt appreciation to Jeanne Newhouse and Wendy Summer, who served as Mimi’s supervisors throughout this process. Your mentorship and thoughtful guidance supported Mimi’s ongoing learning and success. Together, the three of you have made this possible!

Please join us in recognizing and celebrating Mimi Steele for this meaningful and well-earned milestone.

With much cheerfulness and warmth,  The Supervisory Review Board. 

Please view Mimi’s Supervisor Bio here

Dear AEDP community,

The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is delighted to share wonderful news and celebrate an important milestone!

Yeony Kim has officially been recognized as a Certified AEDP Supervisor. This distinction follows a thorough and thoughtful review of their clinical work, supervisory skills, and theoretical understanding. The review board unanimously affirmed both the quality of Yeony’s work and their readiness to step fully into this role.

Congratulations, Yeony! Your dedication to ongoing growth and deepening practice is evident, and your achievement will surely enrich our AEDP community.

We also extend our heartfelt appreciation to Yuko Hanakawa and Danny Yeung, whose supervision and mentorship were integral to Yeony’s journey. Your collaboration and guidance played a vital role in this accomplishment.

Please join us in celebrating Yeony and this significant achievement. Those who wish to share congratulations or connect personally are warmly invited to do so via backchannel at @soykim68@hanmail.net. 

Warmly,

The Supervisory Review Board 

Idit Ronen-Setter, Jeanne Newhouse, Matt Fried, Natasha Prenn, Carolyn Fitzgerald, and Wendy Summer

Please view Yeony’s Supervisor bio here

Dear all,

I am delighted to announce that Alessandra Lassen, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has become a certified AEDP therapist!

Alessandra is deeply invested in her development as an AEDP therapist.

She is available, attuned, and responsive, with a loving yet firm presence that provides the sense of safety her clients need to facilitate transformance. She embodies the AEDP relational stance, bringing authenticity, emotional availability, and attunement to the therapeutic relationship as central agents of change. Her work has been very inspiring to the entire Brazilian AEDP community.

Ale’s reviewers wrote about her work:

“What a privilege it was to review Alessandra’s beautiful work. She demonstrates, with remarkable precision, all of the skills of a very seasoned AEDP therapist.

I was especially struck by Alessandra’s relational work in both recordings. It was so warm and loving, yet also persistent and firm. Her relational work creates an environment of safety and bravery, building a clear bridge to transformance. It is very clear how deeply Alessandra carries the scaffolding of AEDP in her bones.

I found myself smiling at the coordinated relational experiences between Alessandra and her patients, the obvious pleasure and delight they took in one another, and the ways Alessandra helped her patients access and love these younger and disowned parts of themselves.

Sublime work from a very skillful clinician!”

Please join me in congratulating and celebrating Ale’s accomplishment.

Warmly,

Gabi Mendes

Dear AEDP community,

It is with great joy that I announce that Yael Stiles, a therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area (Berkeley) is now certified as an AEDP therapist. It has been such a pleasure getting to know Yael and her work better over the past couple of years. She truly embodies the spirit of AEDP: relationally engaged, emotionally courageous, and deeply committed to facilitating transformation. 

Here is what Yael shared about her AEDP journey to date:

My first exposure to AEDP came in 2016 viewing Diana Fosha’s talk “Dopamine and Being Seen.” Hearing Diana describe the phenomenon of the “click of recognition” felt like a revelation. I was learning that, as a beloved mentor taught me, “therapy isn’t just about something, it IS something.” In delving into AEDP’s uniquely experiential offerings, I myself experienced a click of recognition. The bravery it required of the therapist was a challenge I intuitively knew would yield some of the most transformative moments for both me and my clients. It was a challenge I wanted to take on with all my being. My right brain was moved by the heart and humanity in how Diana spoke about transformance. My left brain lit up at the attention she gave to the anatomy and mechanics of transformation itself. The combination of scientific rigor and deep heart, the fact that Diana quoted rock lyrics as freely as she quoted the great intellects of our field, the fact that the word “love” was ok to use in the AEDP clinical discourse… it all added up to a deep sense of rightness as AEDP became my clinical “home.” 

Throughout the long and often challenging process of working toward certification while raising a family and running a full-time practice, I felt free to engage with AEDP at my own pace, warmly accompanied and encouraged by the community. In the company of brave and loving colleagues and mentors, I felt safe to try new things and take risks. Along with the rich trainings and experientials, I had the privilege of receiving supervision from Natasha Prenn, who taught me the mechanics of deepening with clients and making the implicit explicit. Later in my process, Monica Bradley’s supervision indelibly informed and enriched my work. She offered gentle but incisive feedback as we watched tapes together, and she taught me how to detect and “glue” glimmers, affirm and dyadically regulate, “slow down,” and “stay with.”  I learned immensely from her practice wisdom. 

Finally, I was lucky enough to join a group of certification-track colleagues facilitated by Jenn Edlin. Jenn not only got me across the certification finish line with her fierce belief in me and the permission she gave me to make AEDP my own, but in the process, she taught me how to track both myself and my clients with even greater specificity and skill. I emerged from the experience with a sense of precision and clarity that has increased my confidence in both the transformative capacity of the model and in myself to practice it with greater fidelity, to really “trust the process.” Together with my dear and brilliant colleagues in this group, we became a cohesive and gritty team that thoroughly undid each other’s aloneness in the certification process as we all got to support each other all the way through to submission, a gift for which I am profoundly grateful. 

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Her first reviewer commented the following about Yael and her work:

From the get go Yael’s manner and approach exuded safety and expertise in her clinical interventions.  Backed by a solid and coherent theoretical foundation, I could see that her Presence and ways with clients would have to be profoundly effective and full of deep caring and love. And so it is!  

Every element of the cert package was executed with such care and precision which made reviewing it a pleasure, not to mention the exquisite quality of Yael’s work. These sessions are beautiful, powerful, transformational, and chock full of as much right brain experience and left brain knowledge as can be packed into one cert submission. I am awed at the care and supremely high caliber of her work and this package!… Truly exceptional work. As one of her client’s says “you’ve started to occupy a different space in my heart”…and “i’ve integrated you into my being…that’s the transformation”  Wow!! And yes. I feel all that too just viewing Yael’s work!  She is so genuine. present, skilled and caring. Her Presence is Healing and words are balm. 

Her second reviewer adds: 

Yael beautifully employs the AEDP stance in both sessions. She meets her clients with compassion and empathy, inviting them to pay attention to their internal and relational experiences as they unfold moment by moment. I could feel her warmth, interest and concern as I watched each video and, although I could not see her, I could tell that she was tracking her clients closely based on her attuned responses. Yael beautifully utilizes her tone, pace and words to help each client slow down during significant moments, whether that be the emergence of state 2 phenomena or new experiences of transformation and change. 

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What has been especially notable during the certification process is Yael’s intellectual and clinical curiosity. She has engaged AEDP theory with remarkable depth, continually seeking to understand the nuances of what is occurring in each therapeutic moment—both theoretically and experientially. Her dedication to learning is evident in the care and rigor she brought to preparing her transcripts. 

Yael is highly adept with understanding and applying the AEDP model. She demonstrates a sophisticated capacity to shift her therapeutic stance moment-to-moment as the client’s experience evolves and to know theoretically what is happening and what intervention is called for next. She is attentive to transformance, skillfully detecting and amplifying it, and she celebrates moments of transformation with authenticity and warmth. As a result, her clients consistently have the experience of feeling deeply felt and accompanied in their emotional work and her sessions demonstrate an appetitive process unfolding. And even more importantly her deep authenticity and joy in other humans and the model shine through in every interaction with her. 

Please join me in celebrating this achievement, and if you wish to congratulate Yael her email is therapy@yaelstiles.com.

Congratulations Yael!

With great warmth,

Jenn Edlin

Jennifer Edlin, MFT