Carrie Ruggieri, LMHC, BCETS

Carrie Ruggieri, LMHC has been an active member of the AEDP Institute since completing the Immersion course in 2007. She completed core training with Kari Gleiser, Eileen Russel and Natasha Prenn, and ongoing group supervision with Ben Lipton. Carrie is an experiential assistant for the Essential Skills courses. She has been the Transformance Journal Listserve discussant since 2013 and Associate Editor for the Journal since 2019. Carrie has written on the applications of AEDP for the Transformance Journal in her articles, Laura Hillenbrand: Author as True Other: Inspiring Quantum Resilience, Vol 3,  AEDP-Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Vol 8, and AEDP Author as True Other: A Successful Application of AEDP Ethos in a Self-Help Book: A Review of Ron Frederick’s Loving Like You Mean It, Vol. 9.

Carrie earned her Masters Degree in Psychology at the New School for Social Research and is a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. In her child and adult psychotherapy practice in RI she applies her years of developmental research experience through the Margaret S. Mahler Observational Research Lab at The New School for Social Research and through the Infant Behavior Clinic at Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University. In addition to AEDP psychotherapy, Carrie offers Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, and conducts trauma evaluations through the  Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic.