Archives: Faculty

Sigal Bahat, MA

Sigal Bahat, MA, is a faculty member of AEDP™ Institute and the Institute’s ambassador to the AEDP in the Israel region. She teaches and supervises AEDP in Israel, the US, and internationally. She has a private practice in Israel and works remotely.

Sigal started her career as a Dance Movement Therapist and then completed training both as an Expressive & Creative psychotherapist and a Bio-energetic Analyst. She is certified and has many years of experience teaching somatic mindfulness approaches: The Alexander Technique, The Feldenkrais Method, and Authentic Movement.

Meeting with AEDP and Dr. Diana Fosha resonated with a decades-long quest for the intra-intimate connections between the mind and the psyche-soma. Sigal brings to AEDP elaborate teachings of the clinical use of the Somatic Portal and the nonverbal communication layer between therapist and patient.

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Location: Israel

Molly Eldridge, LICSW

Molly is a certified AEDP Clinician and Supervisor. Known for her enthusiastic embodiment and love of sharing AEDP, Molly’s appreciation stems in part, from its emphasis on the experiential, “right here, right now” focus, coupled with its heartfelt and cogent theoretical framework. She champions capacity to embrace therapists authentic selves, encouraging them to integrate their diverse skills and approaches into the model.

Molly, like so many others, discovered her therapeutic home in AEDP and works in supervision to assist others in finding their place there too. With extensive training in AEDP beginning in 2008, Molly has taught AEDP at the Cape Cod Institute, New England Society of Trauma and Dissociation, and workshops around the US. Molly is committed to the modality and has been a part of various AEDP committees and is now chairing the 2025 AEDP Conference. (more…)

Lia Jones, LMFT

Lia Jones, LMFT is a certified Therapist and Supervisor in both AEDP and EFT in Denver, Colorado. She has worked with children and families experiencing homelessness in non-profit mental health services and has been in private practice since 1998.. Lia has served as both an assistant and Lead Assistant at multiple Immersion and Essential Skills trainings and helms multi-faculty core training groups in Denver. She teaches core training modules, introductions to and specific topics on AEDP to professional and student communities.

Lia is the founder of AEDP Rocky Mountains, a community group that sponsors AEDP workshops and community lunch and learns for practitioners learning the AEDP model. In addition to her practice, community work, and teaching, she offers group and individual supervision live and online. Lia has been delighting in AEDP since the 2003 Immersion followed by three years (more…)

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT, is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor based in Israel. She earned her MA and Family Therapy certification from Tel Aviv University and has been working with individuals, couples, and families since 2006.

Idit was first introduced to AEDP during her training at The Trauma Center in Brookline (Boston), Massachusetts. From that moment on, she felt “positively hooked.” AEDP quickly became not only her clinical compass, but a framework she fully embraced in practice, in writing, and in life. Within the AEDP Institute, Idit has served as the formal AEDP liaison for the Israeli community (2018–2022). She is an AEDP Certified Supervisor, and currently a member of the AEDP Certification Committee, and a member (and Chair) of the Supervisory Review Board.

Idit is deeply engaged in developing AEDP theory and practice, with particular interest in couples and family work, as well as processes of transformation and action tendencies. She publishes in both Hebrew and English. She teaches AEDP courses and family therapy, and provides supervision and offers Individual, couples and family therapy in the Tel Aviv district.

Since October 7, Idit has been working extensively with veterans, war survivors, and families of hostages, supporting individuals and families coping with loss, anxiety, and the complex emotional realities of war.

Goretti Faria, MSW, RCSW, CCC

Goretti is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor who practices as a Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. She attained her Master of Social Work degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and brings over 30 years of experience from community mental health settings and private practice.

Goretti’s expertise lies in psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems. Embracing AEDP in 2014, she has contributed significantly to numerous ES1 and ES2 courses globally, serving as both assistant and Lead Assistant. Until recently, while actively involved with AEDP Vancouver, Goretti was dedicated to championing the growth of AEDP in Vancouver and its environs. In addition to her clinical work, she offers individual and group supervision services. (more…)

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA, is a certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor in training. She has been a Lead Assistant for countless Immersions, Essential Skills, and Advanced Skills Modules. As a founding member of the Portland Oregon AEDP Steering Committee, she has hosted AEDP faculty lead workshops in Portland and Co-Lead a Portland-based Core Training. 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, and complex trauma. As a certified yoga instructor, she incorporates mindfulness, breath, and movement into her work with patients. Deb has a master’s in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle. She is an IPI-certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and continues exploring the varieties of psychedelic therapies that integrate well with AEDP.  
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Malin Endrédi

Malin Endredi is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Her office is in Stockholm, Sweden and nowadays online too. Malin welcomes Swedish and English speaking clients and supervisees. Malin is a member of the AEDP Sweden Program Group and one of two hosts of the AEDP Salon Stockholm/Sweden. She was a copresenter in the institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Malin started her professional life as a clinical psychologist working with distressed parents and their dysregulated babies to help create secure attachment. After 17 years she took a Swedish attachment, relational and emotion focused psychotherapist training. That’s where Malin, through an APA video, first encountered Diana’s ways of working and AEDP and it all clicked.

She became devoted and crossed the Atlantic many times to attend trainings and assisting internationally (more…)

Elizabeth Perkins, LMFT

Elizabeth Perkins, LMFT Liz is in private practice in San Diego, California. She is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Certified AEDP Supervisor. She specializes in Complex PTSD, chronic Depression and Psychedelic integration. Liz thrives on fine-tuning her skills in her own individual supervision and while supervising others. Liz feels that AEDP has been responsible for her most memorable and meaningful breakthrough moments in sessions.

When supervising others, she loves supporting the therapist in finding their AEDP style within the theory. She is also passionate about investigating all paths to transformational healing and has been avidly researching the intersections and parallels of AEDP  & psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is MAPS trained, a member of the AEDP & MDMA Research Committee, and a founding member of the AEDP & Psychedelics Committee. In addition, she has trained in Holotropic breathwork and TRE.

John Wiskind, LCSW, MPH

John Wiskind, LCSW, MPH was born and raised in Ohio, I’m itching to travel and my husband and I are so glad our son is now a rising 5th grader.  I’m a LCSW in the Bay Area in California.  I completed Immersion in 2012 followed by Core Training, ES1 & ES2.  I’ve been working with a faculty supervisor for the last 4 years and have had the honor of assisting at various trainings. 

Working with fellow therapists to enhance their understanding and application of the model gives me a lot of joy, especially because AEDP has been so professionally and personally transformative and I like being a part of that for other clinicians.  Assisting and being an experiential group member have, for me, been some of the most profound and impactful learning experiences along my AEDP journey. 

I am tremendously grateful for each of those experiences and fellow clinicians.  Even in the midst of the global health pandemic and the pandemic of racial injustice, I’m finding AEDP a beacon of hope and groundedness and look forward to jumping into this work together.

Location: California, USA

Heather Gretton

Gretton, HeatherHeather Gretton, Ph.D. R.Psych. has more than 20 years experience working with adults, youth, and couples. She completed the AEDP Immersion Course in 2014, and continued with Essential Skills 1 and 2, and Core Training. She has received extensive individual and group supervision and has assisted at a variety of different training courses.

Dr. Gretton is involved in AEDP research and contributed as a co-author to the first AEDP Outcome Study. She is drawn to AEDP as a model of therapy that weaves together science, theory, and clinical knowledge with the authentic and therapeutic use of the self, to promote transformational and hope-filled change

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