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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…)

Alana Tappin, CPsych

Alana Tappin, CPsych is a licensed clinical psychologist, and the owner/operator of a private psychology clinic that specializes in psychological support for marginalized and racialized people. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she conducts psychological assessments, treatment and consultation to children, teens and adults. Dr. Tappin also provides supervision and training to students, pre-licensed and licensed mental health therapists. She has long had an interest in the psychological impact of racism and offers trainings on whiteness, shame and racism, and offers anti-oppression and anti-racism training to community organizations, universities, and private businesses. Dr. Tappin earned her doctorate degree from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus in 2012, (more…)

Heloise (Lois) Ridley, EdD, MBA, MA, LPC, NCC

Heloise (Lois) Ridley  is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and a Level 3 AEDP therapist. She earned a doctorate from Wilkes University, where she researched Counselors’ Experiences Utilizing Culturally Attuned, Trauma-Informed Care to Support BIPOC College Students’ Mental Health: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, which included AEDP and attachment-focused therapists. Lois also holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University and an MBA from Pennsylvania State University.

Lois specializes in supporting adults struggling with connection, healthy boundaries, and communication in relationships impacted by early childhood trauma. She also provides strategic and encouraging support for caregivers navigating challenges with their children. Her work emphasizes creating corrective relational experiences that foster healing from attachment trauma.

Lois has presented on topics including Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality, and Psychedelics (AEDP Institute, 2022), Using AEDP to Access the Spiritual Core of BIPOC Clients and Facilitate Recovery from Racial Trauma (AACC World Conference, 2023), and as a guest presenter in the AEDP Immersion course on cultural considerations in promoting transformative change.

She is a founding member of the AEDP Vision Collective working to develop approaches to using AEDP to heal racialized trauma. Lois has served as an Experiential Assistant in programs such as AEDP with Applications to Racialized and Other Relational Developmental Trauma (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023), the AEDP Vision Collective seminar Courageous & Restorative Conversations: Building Cultural Bridges, and in the AEDP Immersion course.

Jessica Slatus, LCSW

Jessica Slatus, LCSW is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor in Colorado.  She is an integral part of the AEDP Rocky Mountains community and has presented locally on a number of topics within AEDP, including the AEDP therapist stance, working with anxiety and defenses, building receptive affective capacity, and metaprocessing.  More recently, she has focused on writing and teaching about working with eating disorders using AEDP, and has authored two publications on the topic: an article in Transformance, the AEDP journal, and a book chapter co-authored with Natasha Prenn in the book Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders.Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College, her Masters in Social Work from New York University, and her post-graduate training in eating disorders at the Center for the Study of Anorexia & Bulimia (CSAB).  Jessica was a participant in the inaugural AEDP Essential Skills course in 2010 and has not looked back since! (more…)

Gabriela Pessoa-Mendes, BA

Gabriela is an AEDP certified clinical Psychologist and Supervisor. She has been dedicated to studying AEDP in Brazil since 2008, but it was through in-person courses in NY – Immersion (2013), ES1 (2016/ 2017) and Advanced Skills (2017/ 2018) – that she became even more delighted with the practice of the model. “Listening to Diana, it became clear to me that I was delighted beyond a model of therapy; it resonated with who I am in life.” Gabi brings an embodied AEDP presence to her work – a sense of safety, openness, curiosity, and genuine care to her clients and supervisees. Her expertise in working with trauma in psychotherapy, or doing supervision, shines through her focus on the bottom-up experience – privileging relational and somatic/emotional work.

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Sonya Parker, LCSW, RYT-200

Sonya Parker, LCSW, RYT-200, is a member of the AEDP Vision Collective and Lead Chair of the Racialized Trauma and Spirituality in AEDP Vision Collective Exploratory Group. Sonya was a copresenter in the institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

As a licensed therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher, Sonya uses a holistic approach to therapy grounded in attachment, relational, emotion and somatic-mindfulness modalities. Sonya has provided both individual and couples therapy in her career. She is currently researching constructs to expand the AEDP model to integrate spirituality as part of the transformational AEDP process of healing and mitigation of racialized trauma and oppression experienced by people of African ancestry and BIPOC communities in the United States. Sonya is also a founding member of the AEDP Institute’s Vision Collective working to develop approaches to using AEDP to heal racialized trauma.

H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD 

Jacquie Ye-Perman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Adjunct Faculty of the AEDP™ Institute, certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. She is also a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion) Committee and the AEDP International Development Committee.

Jacquie grew up in China. She obtained her master’s in Social and Developmental Psychology at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and her PhD in counseling psychology at University of Florida, USA. She attended her first AEDP Immersion course in 2013 and started receiving supervision from Dr. Diana Fosha soon after. In 2015 she assisted helming the first Immersion course in Shanghai, China, taught by Dr. Diana Fosha and Dr. Danny Yeung. Over the past eight years she has co-taught Immersion, Essential Skills, Core-training courses, and led several other AEDP training in the Chinese-speaking communities and later in English-speaking communities. She also provides individual and group supervision for trainees internationally. (more…)

Andrew Joseph, EdM, MA, LMHC

Andrew is a Certified AEDP Therapist in private practice in New York City. He has been actively involved in AEDP research since 2018 and was invited to continue in an expanded role in 2021, contributing to studies examining treatment effectiveness, long-term outcomes, and affect-based experiences of flourishing and transformational change.

Andrew completed his MA and EdM in Psychological and Mental Health Counseling at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he was invited during his graduate training to join the AEDP research team. His clinical formation included Core Training with Dale Trimble and advanced supervision with Diana Fosha. He has collaborated closely with Fosha and colleagues on multiple peer-reviewed publications in Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Quarterly, including AEDP’s first outcome study, clinical recommendations for supporting patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of the Moments of Flourishing Experience Scale (MFES), and research exploring positive personal transformation during the pandemic.

Andrew’s clinical work is grounded in the belief that healing is an innate human capacity that emerges in the presence of safety and responsiveness. He helps patients move from stuckness into direct emotional experience, supporting the full processing of feelings so that greater vitality, clarity, and connection can unfold—within oneself and in relationship to others.

Andrew presents at AEDP Immersion and at national and international conferences. He works with individuals, couples, and groups and is licensed in New York, Florida, and British Columbia.

info@andyjohnjoseph.com

Jason Trowbridge, MA, MFT

Jason Trowbridge, MA, MFT is an AEDP Certified Therapist.  Jason’s work has been based in attachment theory since 2007 when he began studying Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples treatment.  About ten years later, he began formally learning AEDP.  Jason specializes in Intra-Relational AEDP and avidly studies dissociative phenomena and different modalities for working with parts of self.  He has been involved in AEDP research and assists at AEDP training events.  Increasingly, he has been focused on the interface between AEDP and spiritual/religious practice.

Shigeru Iwakabe PhD

Shigeru Iwakabe, Ph.D., is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. He received his PhD at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2001. Shigeru conducts psychotherapy research on client emotional processes from an integrative perspective with a particular interest in the transformational phenomena in AEDP.

Shigeru is a natural fit with AEDP both as a researcher and a clinician.  Since becoming more deeply involved with AEDP in 2011, Shigeru has undertaken several research projects studying the affective emotional processes in AEDP with his colleague, Nuno Conceicao from Portugal. His research interests include: training and professional development in psychotherapy, case study research methods, psychotherapy integration, and cultural and social issues related to the practice of psychotherapy.

Shigeru also practices in the university clinic and a private practice and is interested in cultural issues associated with practicing AEDP in Japan. He has completed Level 2 AEDP training.

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