Gil Tunnell, PhD

Gil is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. He is a founding Senior Faculty member of the AEDP Institute and now serves as Consulting Editor for Transformance: The AEDP Journal. With Jenna Osiason, he wrote “Historical Context: AEDP’s Place in the World of Psychotherapy,” Undoing Aloneness & the Transformance of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0, APA Books, 2021. Dr. Tunnell is co-author with David Greenan of Couple Therapy with Gay Men (Guilford, 2002), and has presented and published widely on working with gay men, most recently, “Unequivocal affirmation” of True Self in 16-session AEDP with Gay Men: Using Relational Metaprocessing to Increase Receptive Affective Capacity, Transformance Journal, 2023, 11 (1). His special interest is applying AEDP to couple therapy.

In the late 1980s, he trained in family therapy with Salvador Minuchin and Maurizio Andolfi in Rome, Italy. He wrote “Facilitating transformance for couples: A comparison between Structural Family Therapy and AEDP,” Transformance Journal, 2015, 6 (1). In the 1990s, Dr. Tunnell was director of family therapy at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where he supervised psychiatric residents and psychology interns. He is an adjunct Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he has taught family therapy for 20 years.