Congratulations Elley Newton, LCSW-R– now an AEDP Certified Therapist!

Dear Beloved Community,

It is with the utmost joy and delight that I and Kate Halliday bring you the announcement that Elley Newton is now an AEDP Certified Therapist!

I have had the good fortune of being Elley’s certification supervisor and can wholeheartedly attest to her excellence as an AEDP Certified Therapist. Elley possesses all the qualities as a person as well as a therapist that you would want in a relationship. Elley brings such a warm, caring presence that is both respectful and grounding. She is highly attuned, regulating and tracks the process so skillfully. Elley’s client’s feel so accompanied by her and she is a wonderful transformance detector who is always on the lookout for those glimmers to cultivate. Elley is also highly self-reflective and open to learning.

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Congratulations to John Wiskind: Now an AEDP Certified Supervisor!

May 5th, 2025    

It is with immense pleasure that Ben Lipton and I announce that John Wiskind is now a Certified AEDP Supervisor!!!

Of his work, John’s reviewers wrote…


“John Wiskind demonstrates the relational presence, cultural sensitivity, and faithful use of AEDP models that the Institute requires for supervisor certification. His rich clinical excerpts exemplify how he privileges positive affect, undoes aloneness, and scaffolds supervisees’ emerging capacities.” 

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Seminar: Undoing Disempowerment | Cultivating Agency in AEDP®

Presented by Eileen Russell, PhD

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Friday January 24, 2024- Monday 27, 2025
Live Online and Highly Interactive

Course Description:

Internalized experiences of trauma, neglect, or oppression can severely impair one’s access to and expression of one’s emotions, as well as the sense of safety with oneself and others. But these experiences, as well as subtler, but chronic, experiences of not being seen or recognized, can also impair the development of the sense of the self being an agent in the world and in one’s own life. Even as one develops a connection to and capacity for one’s own feelings, people can still feel like “guests in their own lives.” 

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