Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA, is a certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor in training. She has attended numerous AEDP trainings, and assisted at many Immersion, ES1 and ES2 and Core Training courses. As a founding member of the Portland Oregon AEDP Steering Committee she has hosted several AEDP faculty lead workshops in Portland. She was a copresenter in the Institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Deb is in private practice in Portland.  She works with couples and individuals, specializing in relationships and sexuality.  As a certified yoga instructor she incorporates mindfulness, breath and movement into her work with patients.  Deb has a master’s degree in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle where she learned to lead process groups and create experiential curriculum for adult learners.  

Deb is astounded by the rapid changes she has seen her clients make when helped to surrender to the healing and wisdom inherent within themselves.  She delights in accompanying clients in transformative experiences and the unhindered expressions of love, compassion, creativity and joy that are a part of opening to their best selves.