Archives: Faculty

Gil Tunnell, PhD

Gil is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. He is Faculty Emirita and a founding 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. (more…)

Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW

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Hilary is author of the international award-winning self-help book on emotions, AEDP, and the Change Triangle, It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect To Your Authentic Self (Random House). She is also the co-author of the award-winning parenting book on emotions, Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive (Alcove Press/PRH). She received her B.A. in biochemistry from Wesleyan University, a DDS from Columbia University, and an MSW from Fordham University,

Hilary is a certified psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor. Hilary has published articles in The New York Times, TIME, NPR, the Psychotherapy Networker, Psychology Today, and Oprah. Her Change Triangle blog is read worldwide.

Hilary has been involved in the AEDP community since 2004. She first heard Diana Fosha present at a conference on Affect Regulation in 2004. Other major influences were AEDP Faculty members Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Eileen Russell, PhD, and Natasha Prenn, LCSW with whom she attended the 2004 AEDP Immersion Course. Hilary received her AEDP Certification in 2010. She gradually built her practice and continued her education at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she earned a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2008. Hilary also enjoyed being the Mental Health Consultant for the television series MadMen.

Available for case consultations only, not for individual ongoing supervision.

Find FREE resources on emotions here: https://www.hilaryjacobshendel.com/

Location: New York, New York, USA

Cristina Mendonça, Clinical Psychologist

Cristina Mendonça, is a clinical psychologist and an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Training. She has a vast international private practice from Rio de Janeiro to Rome, where she now lives. 

After completing the Immersion course in 2013, Cristina was absolutely taken by the AEDP model and since then has been deeply engaged in making it procedural. She has been a teaching assistant / experiential assistant at many, many in-person trainings held in Rio, London and New York as well as in many online trainings. Since 2021 Cristina has been Lead Assistant in Institute- sponsored Immersion, Essential Skills (many!) and Advanced Skills online courses; and she is very much on track to becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor. 

AEDP has “undone her therapist’s self aloneness” and changed Cristina’s professional life’s trajectory for good. 

Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych

Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych, is an author, clinical psychologist, certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and leader in the field of therapeutic presence.

Shari offers training modules in therapeutic presence internationally as part of a longer-term vision of having presence be a foundational training across psychotherapy approaches. With over thirty years’ experience weaving psychology and mindfulness, Shari co-authored the book, Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapeutic Relationships – 2nd Edition (2022) with Dr. Leslie S. Greenberg. Shari’s book: A Practical Guide For Cultivating Therapeutic Presence (2017), offers hands on tools and guidance for cultivating and strengthening presence in therapy.  Shari created the Therapeutic Rhythm and Mindfulness Program (TRM™), a group modality integrating mindfulness, rhythm practices and emotion-focused awareness to enhance wellbeing and presence.   (more…)

Kate Halliday, LCSW

Kate Halliday, LCSW, is Senior Faculty, AEDP Institute from Ithaca, New York.

Throughout Kate’s nearly 30 years as a psychotherapist, She has always been better at noticing the ways her clients are remarkable, resilient, and lovable than theorizing about the ways they are wounded.

Kate has always been drawn to images, representations, and experiences of transformation. Music, poetry, literature, the natural world, and emotional relationships have always been her education. When Kate started learning to be a teacher of young children (in her first career she worked for Head Start and in elementary schools), and then to be a therapist, it was the magic of witnessing change and growth in other human beings that enlivened the experience for her. In psychotherapy, this led Kate to study Family Systems Theory and Narrative Therapy, then EMDR, and finally AEDP. (more…)

Location: Ithaca, New York, USA

Annika Medbo, Licensed Psychotherapist

Annika Medbo is a faculty member of AEDP Institute. She is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Licensed Physiotherapist in private practice in Stockholm, Sweden.

She is one of the founders of the Swedish AEDP Community and has played a key role in spreading and developing AEDP in Western Europe, particularly in Scandinavia. Together with Anna Christina Sundgren, she continuously arranges and teaches Core Training in Sweden, Norway and online. In addition to teaching Core Training, she is an appreciated teacher in the Institute’s Essential Skills courses.

Annika has always been deeply interested in exploring and expanding her understanding of the natural, innate forces that drive growth and healing—both within the individual and in the profound interactions between people. In AEDP, she found a model and framework that allowed her to cultivate this passion and eventually begin structuring her discoveries through her clinical work with patients.

Through this work, a particular interest in working with the deepest attachment traumas has emerged—specifically in addressing various forms of profound neglect. Drawing on infant research, she integrates insights both to understand the phenomena that emerge in the therapeutic process and to deepen her comprehension of early attachment formation.

Building on this evolving understanding, Annika has refined her AEDP approach and skills to better meet patients’ needs at this level of trauma work. Her commitment to advancing the AEDP model is reflected in her recent article, Finding, Forming, and Transforming the Self: A Journey From No Self to Core Self, published inTransformance, the AEDP Journal, volume 13

Anna Christina Sundgren, MA 

Anna Christina Sundgren, MA is a faculty member of AEDP™ Institute, a Licensed Psychotherapist, teacher and Supervisor. She has been in private practice in Stockholm, Sweden for more than 20 years. Anna Christina became a certified AEDP-therapist in 2015, and an AEDP Supervisor in 2016. She studied Jungian Psychology, is trained in Short-term Dynamic Therapy and is a Mindfulness Instructor and retreat leader.

Anna Christina has worked with group- and individual therapy for male perpetrators in domestic violence treatment. She co-developed and supervised a relational Infant Observation method inspired from AEDP to help therapy students develop their sense of non-verbal communication. She has assisted in Immersion and Essential Skills courses as well as presenting her own work. (more…)

Mary Androff, MD

Mary Androff, MD, is a faculty member of AEDP® Institute. Based in Minneapolis-St Paul, Mary works in a private psychotherapy and integrative psychiatry practice and also provides psychiatric consultation for an Assertive Community Treatment team.  Her journey to AEDP began with STEM (chemistry at University of Illinois), then medicine (Washington University-St Louis), then psychiatric residency (University of Washington, Seattle), then training in psychodynamic psychotherapy alongside daily yoga and meditation practices.

Seeking a way to integrate all these threads and hoping to discover a more coherent theoretical framework, Mary found her professional home when she took the AEDP Immersion course. She went on to receive certification as an AEDP therapist in 2015 and as an AEDP supervisor in 2020.  She founded AEDP Minnesota in 2017.  She has run multiple study and consultation groups, participates as a treating clinician in the AEDP research program, teaches ES1 modules and provides individual and group AEDP supervision.

Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Catherine Wong, RSW

Catherine Wong, RSW, is a certified family therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice with over 26 years counseling experience working with individuals, families, couples and children and 13 years supervision experience offering both individual
and group supervision for clinicians and social workers. Catherine is also a Clinical Supervisor in the Social Work Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her clinical background includes training in Moment by Moment Reconnecting
Marital & Family Therapy, Satir Model, Structural Family Therapy, Bowen Family Therapy, Play Therapy, Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy, Hypnotherapy , EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. Her curiosity to understand how clinicians, using a co-
created therapeutic relationship as a safe and secure base, can work with emotional experience experientially toward healing and transformation is what led her to AEDP. (more…)

Penelope Andrade, LCSW

Penelope is an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor and author of Emotional Medicine Rx: Cry when you’re sad, Stop when you’re done, Feel good fast with over 40 years of experience in San Diego, CA and on Zoom. Penelope found AEDP in 2010 and knew it would be her forever therapeutic home when she discovered how elegantly AEDP integrated her decades long commitment to body-mind-spirit-relational healing and mindfulness. Of the many aspects of AEDP she treasures: being with clients in the embodied present moment, undoing aloneness, trusting those continually arising self-righting impulses, allowing love to flourish relationally, and facilitating clients’ ever increasing self-love-confidence-clarity.

As AEDP can be tricky to master, Penelope enjoys helping new AEDP learners relax into discovering how their innate gifts as therapists thrive and develop in this organic, emergent model. Penelope knows, personally, she will never be done learning AEDP as it challenges her personally and professionally to grow in the most important aspects of consciousness, love and will.  (more…)

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