Danny Yeung, MD, CCFP, MDPAC(C), FCFP

Danny is Chair of International Development and Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute, is a trainer and supervisor of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) for post-graduate mental health professionals in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, United States and Canada. Danny is the author of The Instinct to Heal: Practicing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, the first original AEDP book to be published in China.

Danny is a contributor of a chapter titled What Went Right: What Happens in the Brain During AEDP’s Metatherapeutic Processing, in the award winning book Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 and has served as the Translation Reviewer for the Chinese version of The Transforming Power of Affect and Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. He is also the lead author of The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, arguably one of the original trauma treatment manual published in Chinese.

Danny coauthored Portrait of the Soul, a study of nine personality styles, currently in its 6 th edition. Together with Dr. Diana Fosha, he also coauthored a chapter in the Casebook of Psychotherapy Integration, published by American Psychological Association. An Assistant Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine with cross appointment at Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Danny also serves as a Consultant Physician / Psychotherapist of Assertive Community Treatment Team and Mental Health Court Support Program for the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Sinai Hospital. His unique contribution as a family doctor and a psychotherapist in the ACT Team, unparalleled globally, was instrumental in helping his team to win the American Psychiatric Foundation Advancing Minority Mental Health Award in 2007 and the Leading Practices Award presented by Ontario Hospital Association in 2007. For his local and global AEDP teaching projects. he was personally honored with the Joel Sadavoy Community Mental Health Award for 2011, Peter R. Newman Humanitarian Award for 2013, and a two time recipient of Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for 2012 and 2022.

Danny has trained and supervised, since 2005, over a thousand mental health clinicians, including social workers, counselors, psychologists, family physicians and psychiatrists in Canada, United States, Hong Kong, Mainland China and South Korea in AEDP. He founded the AEDP Training Program in Hong Kong and Mainland China, and fostered the birth and growth of the AEDP Supervisors and Adjunct Faculties in Hong Kong.

Danny served in a crises response team for a group of Canadian survivors in the September 11 terrorist attacks. During the SARS crises in 2003, he was a lead trainer in Toronto for psychological crises response for the Chinese community. Following the Great Earthquake in China 2008, he served as a Consultant to Wenchuan Earthquake Psychological Assistance Team during the post-512 earthquake relief efforts. Passionate in promoting psychotherapy training with China, he traveled to Mianzhu Sichuan in sharing his work in AEDP. Hundreds of his trauma treatment manual were donated in dedication to the survivors and families of the earthquake. Danny holds a Doctor of Medicine Degree from University of Toronto. A Certificant and Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, he was also appointed by the College as Psychotherapy Mentor for the Collaborative Mental Health Network and was a Peer Assessor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He maintains a private practice in family medicine and psychotherapy in Toronto since 1989.