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Gitit Jacobson-Ziv
Gitit Jacobson-Ziv, M.A., is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified supervisor in Israel, and certified AEDP psychotherapist. In her private practice, Gitit works with adults and adolescents, specializing in at-risk youth and people with trauma. For the last 20 years, She was the clinical director at the ‘Beit-Elazraki Home’, a boarding school for at-risk children and adolescents that aims to fully rehabilitate its residents. She supervised the clinical and educational staff and was in charge of treatment planning for the boarding school children. Years of working with attachment trauma and the challenges of helping them prompted her to continually learn, and AEDP was a perfect fit for her work. She is a licensed CBT therapist and has training in Mindfulness, Biofeedback, EFT, and EFCT.
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Kristina Rassidaki, MA
Kristina is a certified AEDP therapist based in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Psychology and began her career as a Person-Centered Therapist in the late 1990s. While studying Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, she discovered AEDP and
embarked on her training in 2017.
In addition to her private practice in Athens, Kristina serves on the faculty of Play Therapy Greece and works as a parenting and teacher advisor and trainer. She is the creator of the 3Step Method, now also taught at university level, which equips parents and educators with effective strategies for managing challenging situations with children of all ages. A prolific author, Kristina has published five books for parents, educators and students with one of Greece’s leading publishers. She is deeply passionate about AEDP, having experienced firsthand its transformative power in ways no other therapy had before. As the first certified AEDP therapist in Greece, she hopes to
introduce this approach to the professional community in Athens. Kristina’s studies and career have taken her across Europe, and she is bilingual in English and Greek, with proficiency in French.
Trisha Bell
Trisha is a creative powerhouse with over three decades of experience in media and the arts. Her journey began as a dancer, choreographer, and actress, using creativity as a means of healing from trauma and self-expression. In college, she expanded her focus to artist management and development, curating events, building brands, and empowering creators to achieve excellence.
Trisha’s expertise spans concerts, tours, and events, including co-creating the successful Beast Mode Tour with Juan Pierre of the Miami Marlins and showcasing her makeup artistry on platforms like 106 & Park and the BET Honors Awards. She also moderated a 2016 SXSW panel educating Christian artists on business and industry insights.
Currently, as a Producer working for a number of clients, including Nike, Trisha leads creative strategies and impactful campaigns. Dedicated to redefining media through authentic storytelling, she continues to inspire and influence culture while supporting the creative community with intentionality and purpose.
Luiza Neumayer, MA (Psych)
Hello and welcome! I am Luiza and I work with individuals and couples in Central London, UK. My initial psychotherapy training was in Jungian analytical psychology in 2010 back home, in Romania. Due to some unfortunate personal circumstances, I relocated to the UK in December 2017. My personal and professional life completely changed after meeting Diana and attending the Immersion held in London in 2018. I then understood what was missing in my therapy practice – making the implicit explicit, the explicit relational and the relational transformational. I fell in love with AEDP from the “get-go”, getting certified in 2021. Alongside AEDP, I trained in other experiential, somatic and emotionally -focused therapeutic modalities such as: AB-ISTDP, EFIT, IFS, EFT for couples, as well as EMDR and DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting).
My essential mode of supervision is relational, integrative and experiential, inviting supervisees into a safe, creative space where experiential learning can emerge. The supervisory space is a co-created space, encouraging collaboration, dialogue, curiosity and diversity. My aim is to foster each supervisee’s individual and unique ways of thinking and being with their clients, supporting them develop a clear theoretical understanding with practical skills and experiential learning. I value authenticity, vulnerability, openness, not-knowing, curiosity and I feel inspired to live from an approach to growth. I also have a spiritual practice which nurtures my personal and professional life and I feel deeply dedicated to support my supervisees in deepening their theoretical knowledge and embodied felt sense of AEDP.
Heather Sanford
Heather Sanford is a licensed social worker in upstate New York. She lives outside of Ithaca, NY with her partners and five children. Heather has been studying AEDP since 2017 and is working on certification! Heather’s full-time job is the Program Director for an outpatient recovery oriented, mental health and substance use treatment program for adults. This program focuses on the use of groups as the primary modality of treatment. She also has a small private practice where she usually works with LBGTQ+ teens and teaches Emotions Education classes. Heather co-authored the Emotions Education 101 8-module curriculum and accompanying Train the Trainer Workshop.
In her spare time (when she can find some) she enjoys crafting, reading, being in nature, laughing with friends and snuggling with her adorable little dog Moxie. Heather loves teaching and sharing what she has learned about the transforming power of actually experiencing emotions in her own life with others.
Kev Koskoska
Kev’s clinical, creative, and academic work focuses on finding health in hard places. He works with incarcerated men through his private practice, Otherside Health, creates mixed media mental health content, and connects these processes through his interdisciplinary PhD studies at the University of British Columbia. His last name means “broody hen”
Avi Klein
Hi there. I’m Avi—a lifelong New Yorker and father of three. I’m an AEDP-certified psychotherapist, supervisor-in-training, and the owner and clinical director of Downtown Somatic Therapy in New York City. I’ve been practicing for over 15 years and was lucky enough to join the AEDP community at an early stage in my career. My personal practice has focused on working with individuals and couples, particularly addressing issues related to masculinity and its impact on men’s relationships to themselves and others. I’m drawn to experiential, emotionally-focused, and somatic approaches, and in addition to AEDP, I have advanced training in Somatic Experiencing, PACT, and EFT, among other modalities.
My supervision style is warm, curious, and collaborative, emphasizing authentic presence and relational safety while gently encouraging supervisees and clients to step slightly outside their comfort zones. I strive to balance helping my supervisees develop a clear theoretical understanding with practical skills and experiential learning.
In addition to my clinical practice, I’ve contributed writings to publications such as The New York Times and Esquire and previously co-hosted “Hey Man – The Advice Podcast for Men.” As a therapist and thinker, I enjoy the challenge of communicating complex ideas in ways the public can understand, and I’m particularly interested in helping therapy-ambivalent individuals feel comfortable enough to try therapy. I deeply value authenticity, vulnerability, and an active, evolving, open-ended approach to growth—qualities I strive to nurture in my supervisees as they deepen their AEDP practice.
Laurie Greenberg
