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Goretti Faria, MSW, RCSW, CCC

I’m a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor, practicing as a Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. I hold a Master of Social Work degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and bring over 30 years of experience from community mental health settings and private practice. My expertise spans psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems. Since embracing AEDP in 2014, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to numerous ES1 and ES2 courses globally, both as an assistant and Lead Assistant. I’ve was deeply involved with AEDP Vancouver, passionately championing the growth of AEDP in Vancouver and the surrounding region. Alongside my clinical work, I offer individual and group supervision services.

Over the years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of AEDP — both personally and professionally — and that experience shapes everything I do. I approach supervision much the way I approach AEDP therapy itself: with a focus on authenticity and agency. My goal is to create a safe, collaborative learning space where supervisees feel empowered to develop their own unique therapeutic voice,
while fostering healing and transformation for the clients they serve. I see the relationships among client, therapist, and supervisor as a reflection of our shared humanity — and I’m committed to supporting the growth, both professional and personal, of everyone involved in the AEDP process.

Location: Ontario, Canada

Kaori Stram, LMHC, LPC

Hi, I’m Kaori Stram, LMHC, LPC, licensed in New York and Connecticut, and an out-of-state provider for Florida. 
AEDP has been my professional home for over 10 years, and I continue to deepen my learning as both a therapist and a supervisor.

Over time, I’ve come to experience AEDP as a rich, evolving process—one that invites us into deeper contact with ourselves and our clients.  My approach to supervision is collaborative, supportive, and experiential. I aim to create a space where you can slow down, reflect, and grow your capacity to work with emotion in a way that feels authentic and embodied.

I especially enjoy working with clinicians who are open to experiential learning—those who are curious not only about understanding AEDP conceptually, but also about engaging in the embodied, affective aspects of the work.

I look forward to deepening our knowledge and experience as we grow together.

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Arielle Jean-Pierre, PhD

Arielle Jean-Pierre, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York City. She is a level 3 AEDP therapist and specializes in working with clients navigating ADHD and other executive functioning difficulties as well as issues of self-esteem. After attending a seminar in 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in response to police brutality, she quickly realized the critical and precious importance of AEDP as a vessel for facilitating healing and connection within the therapeutic relationship. Wanting more of this for the Black community, Arielle responded to the Vision Collective’s call to action to hone AEDP as a resource to support healing from racialized trauma. She is especially passionate about utilizing AEDP to undo the aloneness that comes with existing in predominantly White spaces within a Black body. 

Arielle has served as an EA for a number of courses, including AEDP Immersion, AEDP Essential Skills, and the advanced skills module “Working with Disorganized Attachment.” 

Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, LCSW

Sobeyda is a Clinical Social Worker with 20+ years of experience navigating the intricate intersections of culture, identity, trauma, and relationships. As a certified EFT Couples Therapist and Level 2 AEDP Therapist, she brings both specialized expertise and cultural attunement to her therapy approach and in her role as Director of HeartMatters NYC Counseling.

As a 1.5 generation Latina who grew up in Queens’ diverse immigrant neighborhoods, Sobeyda understands firsthand the complexity of holding multiple identities and navigating multiple worlds—the cultural agility required to move fluidly between contexts while learning to honor differences and notice areas for growth.

Married to David, Sobeyda is part of a multiracial couple who raised four multiracial children in a home where navigating multiple identities was a part of daily life. She brings both professional insight and lived experience to her practice, skillfully holding space for the ways racialized experiences, trauma, and attachments shape our most intimate relationships and sense of self.

Yael Sadan, LCSW 

Yael  is a Certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor-in-training.  She has a private practice in Midtown Manhattan and has been practicing for over 20 years.  Since her introduction to AEDP in 2010, Yael has assisted in numerous AEDP training courses.  Yael describes her introduction to AEDP as finally finding a therapeutic home. She states “I drank the koolaid 10 years ago and I still feel like I am drinking it”  Prior to becoming immersed in AEDP, Yael was part of the Ackerman Institute for the Family where she taught classes;. She was also part of the Eikenberg Institute which centered on multicultural therapy and social justice in the therapy room. She brings both of these lenses in her AEDP work.  Yael has experienced the transformational power of the model both personally and professionally.  She  is honored to be facilitating other peoples journey through AEDP. 

Jessica Guillory, LPC

Jessica Guillory, LPC, is a queer black femme practicing in the southern United States. Her first encounter with AEDP was during a time of tumult in her personal and professional life, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and during the global pandemic. Though she was intrigued intellectually by the deeply relational and rigorously somatic modality, what led her to own AEDP as her chosen community is the demonstrative and ongoing commitment to peace work of her AEDP colleagues. The capacity for transformation and healing across myriad communities, identities, and intersections is the source of hope and continued renewal that she so deeply craved then and still drinks deeply from now. 

In her work with the Vision Collective, she is continuing to pursue the shared commitment for healing, specifically through the education and praxis of the use of AEDP to heal racialized trauma. Working with BIPOC members of the LGBTQ+ community in Texas during these challenging political times is a source of especial pride and joy as the resiliency and solidarity of the human race is on indelible display. 

Sabrina (Yunshuo) Wei, MPA, MA

Sabrina is a Registered Psychotherapist in Ontario, Canada, and a nationally certified psychological counselor in China, working with individuals from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Based in Toronto, she brings a cross-cultural, relational, and attachment-
informed perspective to her clinical work, with particular sensitivity to the lived experiences of immigrants and multicultural communities. She began her formal training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) in the spring of 2016. She completed the AEDP Immersion Course and Essential Skills Training in Shanghai, China, between 2016 and 2018, under the guidance of Danny Yeung and H. Jacquie Ye-Perman.

In addition to AEDP, Sabrina is a certified Hypnotherapist and has completed formal training in Gestalt Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples. In her clinical work, AEDP serves as her primary therapeutic model, providing the foundation through which she integrates experiential, relational, and emotion-focused approaches. Sabrina has been actively involved in the dissemination of AEDP within the Chinese- speaking community. In 2018, she founded the AEDP Alliance WeChat public platform, which shares AEDP Institute training and certification information, selected AEDP-related articles, and writings by Chinese trainees, serving as a bridge between the international AEDP community and Chinese learners. In the area of publication and translation, she participated in the editing and revision of The Instinct to Heal—Practice Awakening the Power of Transformance, a Chinese AEDP volume edited by Danny Yeung and published In the same year, she participated in the translation of selected chapters of Diana Fosha’s AEDP 2.0 into Chinese. She is currently working on the translation of selected portions of Natasha Prenn’s AEDP Deliberate Practice.

AEDP has been deeply influential in both her professional and personal development. Guided by the values, stance, and transformational spirit of AEDP, she remains committed to supporting emotional healing across cultures and to contributing to the ongoing growth of the AEDP community.

Dina Genis, LCSW

Dina Genis is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor in Training. graduate of the University of Toronto’s MSW program, she is also a Certified Short-Term Psychotherapist and Supervisor in Israel, an Art Therapist, and a Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist. Dina offers both in-person and online therapy for adults and couples and leads supervision groups both independently and within the Short-Term Psychotherapy Program at Bar Ilan University.

​Dina first attended the AEDP Immersion course in 2016, where she felt she had finally found a clinical “home.” Since then, she has been deeply involved in the community, assisting in Immersion and ES1 courses, as well a teaching and presenting at various AEDP workshops in Israel. Often described as an “AEDPer at heart,” Dina is passionate about guiding others on their AEDP journey. She is dedicated to helping clinicians refine their skills and deepen their understanding of the approach within a warm and growth-promoting environment.

Location: Israel

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So Yeon (yeony) Kim

So Yeon (Yeony) Kim is a nationally certified counseling psychologist and supervisor in South Korea, holding a doctoral degree in psychotherapy. She previously served as a full-time university professor and is currently an adjunct professor at World Cyber University, as well as the founder and director of the Yeon Psychological Counseling Center.

She became a Certified AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) Therapist in 2024 and was certified as an AEDP Supervisor in 2026. She is also a certified Psychodrama Director and Art Therapist, and has completed formal training in EMDR and EFT. AEDP serves as her primary therapeutic model in clinical practice.

Her clinical work focuses on trauma treatment and attachment-based depression and anxiety, with an emphasis on experiential approaches to psychotherapy. AEDP has played a central role in her professional and personal development. Guided by its values and spirit, she is committed to supporting the healing and growth of individuals, while also contributing to the professional development of
fellow therapists.

Yeon Psychological Counseling Center

Website
http://www.yeoncounseling.com

Location: Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Elley Newton,  LCSW-R, AEDP Certified Therapist

Elley Newton is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-In-Training. She has been a member of the Experiential Assistant team since 2023 and is a member of the AEDP Finger Lakes community. She maintains a private practice in rural upstate New York near the Finger Lakes with primary areas of focus on adolescent and young adult mental health, as well as providing therapy for therapists.

Elley has a passion for teaching that began with providing continuing education presentations on mental health and has been most alive in her teaching in the Master of Social Work program at Keuka College. Additionally, she has assisted numerous social work students in previous field placements and provided supervision to clinicians working towards licensure. She is delighted to now begin to bring her supervisory/teaching skills to blend with her love for AEDP. Through her time as an Experiential Assistant, and most recently, presenting in the inaugural Clinician’s Corner event for the AEDP Institute, her excitement and passion for helping others learn this model has blossomed even further. As a supervisor, Elley strives to be warm, affirming, bring humor and play, and provide a mix of strong attunement and left brain engagement to promote accompaniment, safety, and confidence in learning.

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