Michael Mondoro, LCSW
Michael Mondoro is an AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty Member, Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor, and a specialist in developmental trauma and dissociation.
Michael’s clinical work centers on the relational wounds and dissociative presentations of childhood emotional injury and complex trauma — where transformation is often hardest to reach. He works with and teaches Intra-Relational AEDP (IR-AEDP), the parts-work model developed by Kari Gleiser and Jerry Lamagna. AEDP psychotherapy provides the foundation and heart of how he practices and teaches. An integrationist at heart, Michael practices AEDP as a living framework that welcomes other approaches rather than competing with them. From that foundation he draws on attachment science, somatic methods, and memory reprocessing and reconsolidation to restore the flow between body, mind, and heart.
Michael offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), grounded in the AEDP model and frame — using expanded states to deepen relational and experiential change. He also offers breathwork as part of this experiential approach. His practice is further enriched by training in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, Internal Family Systems, and Relational Psychoanalysis, and shaped by a long-standing contemplative practice rooted in the Buddhist tradition.
As a teacher and supervisor, Michael emphasizes the self of the therapist, with the supervisory relationship serving as a living model of the therapeutic one. He teaches within the Institute’s Essential Skills program, has been an invited presenter at Diana Fosha’s AEDP Immersion, and taught Foundations in AEDP Psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). His seminar From Fear to Flow: Confidently Navigating Dissociative States in Complex Trauma with AEDP reflects the clinical territory he is most known for, and in June 2027 he presents The Protected Wound: Transforming Shame, Defense, and Complex Trauma with AEDP and Parts Work Approaches. He also leads three clinical consultation groups for therapists working across the post-traumatic spectrum, helping other clinicians deepen their experiential presence, courage, and capacity to stay connected even in the most difficult emotional terrain.
Whether in therapy, supervision, or training, his focus is the same: helping people reconnect with their wholeness, their capacity for love, and their movement toward flourishing.
An active member of the AEDP community since 2012, Michael has served on the Institute’s Steering, Curriculum, and Education Committees. Prior to private practice and teaching, he trained at New York University and held staff psychotherapist and supervisory roles in outpatient community mental health in New York City. He is a licensed clinical social worker based in Westport, Connecticut and New York City.