Archives: Faculty

Jennifer Edlin, MFT

Jennifer Edlin, MFT  is a psychotherapist in private practice in Oakland, California, and is a Senior faculty member of AEDP™ Institute.  Jenn received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a JD/MBA degree from New York University and an MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. From the moment she attended her first AEDP Immersion Course, Jenn was taken by AEDP and the permission to be authentic and to use the therapist’s whole self in service of clients’ healing and transformation.

Jenn is developing AEDP theory and clinical interventions to use with dysregulated and underregulated clients, and has presented her work in 2019 in Boston, Portland and the Denver Immersion course.  In the years since she joined the AEDP Institute Faculty Jenn has been a Co-Director of the AEDP research project, (more…)

Marc Cecil, PhD

Marc is a Licensed Psychologist with over 40 years of experience in a variety of clinical and community settings, currently in private practice in Rutland, Vermont. Marc has immersed himself in AEDP since 2012 and has done extensive training and supervision with SueAnne Piliero and Ron Frederick. He has been a Lead Assistant in ES1 and an experiential assistant in several AEDP courses over the years, including traveling to Israel, where he helped launch their first Essential Skills Course. Marc has a special interest in working with complex trauma and often integrates AEDP with other experiential therapies, including ego state/parts work, EMDR, and Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT). He enjoys sharing his clinical work and videos with other therapists, bringing his work to life through a story of transformation and healing, not only of his clients, but of himself and others in his life.

A frequent contributor to the AEDP Clinical Discussion Listserv and Bulletin Board for community expression and connection, Marc has a passion for sharing stories about his own AEDP experience and journey. He also has a paper on therapeutic presence in the AEDP Transformance Journal (August 2020), where he conveys his personal process and model of how he brings AEDP to life within himself and his clients. Like his clinical work, Marc uses an experiential approach to supervision which focuses on helping other clinicians integrate themselves into the therapy process and develop therapeutic presence. (more…)

SueAnne Piliero, PhD

SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D. is Faculty Emerita and Supervisor. She is also a founding member of the AEDP Institute having worked with Diana Fosha at the very beginning of AEDP and for 20 years thereafter, traveling nationally and internationally to teach AEDP to clinicians and mental health professionals around the world. Dr. Piliero was a lead trainer in the AEDP Institute’s Essential Skills Courses, and a highly sought after consultant.

Dr. Piliero is known for her warm, engaging teaching style and her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity.

Dr. Piliero has developed a relationally bold clinical method called Fierce Love. Her clinical work, which embodies Fierce Love, powerfully demonstrates how even the most traumatized patients can be transformed. (more…)

Eileen M. Russell, PhD

Eileen M. Russell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a founding faculty member of the AEDP Institute. She began studying and training in AEDP in 1996 with Drs. Diana Fosha and Jenna Osiason. Dr. Russell has been an adjunct faculty member at NYU Medical/ Bellevue Hospital Center where she completed her internship training and later worked as a senior psychologist with individuals struggling with addiction and psychiatric diagnoses. She is currently also on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) Integrative Trauma Program. Her passion is AEDP, which she has taught to individuals and groups since 2004 nationally and internationally. She combines a warm and gentle clinical style with a probing and articulate interest in theory to bring out the depths of the AEDP approach. In addition to her practice with patients and consultees, Eileen enjoys expanding clinical and theoretical ideas through writing. She published the second professional book on AEDP called, Restoring Resilience: Discovering your Clients’ Capacity for Healing (W.W. Norton & Co., June 2015). She co-authored a paper with Diana Fosha, entitled, “Transformational affects and core state in AEDP” (2008). More recently she has been exploring the centrality of the sense of agency to healing and change in a chapter in Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing (APA, 2021).

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Steve Shapiro, PhD

Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who maintains a full-time private practice in suburban Philadelphia and has over twenty years clinical and teaching experience.  He has been practicing various forms of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT), such as Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), since the mid-1990’s. He is a founding member of the AEDP Institute and has been studying with Dr. Diana Fosha, the developer of AEDP, since 2003

Dr. Shapiro conducts lectures, workshops and ongoing training internationally.  His presentations are often commended for translating complex clinical theory into clear, precise, and practical techniques (more…)

Barbara J. Suter, PhD

Barbara J. Suter has been a clinical psychologist for over 40 years, practicing psychodynamically and experientially oriented work with individuals–child, adolescent, adult–and with couples, families, communities, schools and other agencies.  She is involved in training both new and experienced therapists.

A lifetime of a rich, rewarding experience helping people has culminated in experiential work.  Through AEDP, and its holistic, healing, helpful approach, Dr. Suter has found a way to integrate many decades of previously disparate experiences, finding that AEDP uniquely lends itself to therapy, supervision and front line helping people in their communities and families.

After AEDP training in the early 2000’s she became deeply interested in understanding and working with the body in psychotherapy and trained for three years with Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing approach to become a practitioner. She has found combining AEDP and SE particularly useful with those suffering from trauma, reeling from life and unable to find help despite a long time of seeking help, healing and change. Dr Suter has taught and supervised in (1) George Washington University PsyD program (2) The Washington School of Psychiatry Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy program and their Supervision program, (3) A Clinical PhD Social Work program in Washington, DC. and (4) consulted with both public and private schools in the Washington, DC area and (4) a domestic violence program training counselors to do psychotherapy with their clients.  She maintained a private practice in Washington, DC until covid and now works remotely via zoom from Virginia. She is licensed as a clinical psychologist in DC, Maryland, Virginia and Vermont

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Judy Wong, MFT

Judy Wong, MFT, was deeply inspired by and found much resonance with AEDP Senior Faculty Member Danny Yeung’s work when attending the 2006 Hong Kong Immersion course. In 2007, she participated in Danny Yeung’s first Core Training group and since 2009 has been a peer supervision facilitator for Hong Kong Core Trainings. Through these years of AEDP exposure, Ms. Wong’s clinical repertoire has been deeply enriched and expanded. With previous training in Marriage & Family Therapy, Somatic Experiencing and mindfulness, it is natural for her to integrate her knowledge and skills in AEDP in working with individuals and couples for affect regulation, deepening attachment bond between members of couples, enhancing self reflective capacity and neural integration. Ms. Wong shares the vision and passion of disseminating AEDP in China. She is especially interested in working with complex trauma in mainland China, focusing on fine tuning AEDP with the recognition of their distinct history and cultural features.

Danny Yeung, MD, CCFP, MDPAC(C), FCFP

Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute and Chair of International Development, Danny Yeung is a trainer and supervisor of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) for post-graduate mental health professionals in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, United States and Canada. An Assistant Professor with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, he was personally honored, for his local and global AEDP teaching projects, with the Joel Sadavoy Community Mental Health Award for 2011, Peter R. Newman Humanitarian Award for 2013, and a two time recipient of Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for 2012 and 2022.

Danny is the author of The Instinct to Heal: Practicing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, the first original AEDP book to published 2023 in China. He is a contributor of a chapter titled What Went Right: What Happens in the Brain During AEDP’s Metatherapeutic Processing, in the award winning book Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 and has served as the Translation Reviewer for the Chinese version of The Transforming Power of Affect and Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. 

Danny is a contributor of a chapter titled The Art of Non-Doing and Self-Transformation of Things, in Chinese Culture and Psychotherapy and is regarded as having made an epoch defining contribution to integrating psychotherapy with Chinese culture.  He is also the lead author of The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, arguably one of the original trauma treatment manual published in Chinese. He coauthored Portrait of the Soul, a study of nine personality styles, currently in its 6 th edition. Together with Dr. Diana Fosha, he also coauthored a chapter in the Casebook of Psychotherapy Integration, published by American Psychological Association. 

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Diana Fosha, PhD

Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP® psychotherapy, a healing-based, transformation-oriented treatment model. And she is Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute where she also serves as Continuing Education Director. Since 2020, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of the AEDP therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP is an experiential clinical practice which reflects the integration of science,research and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.

She is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000); 

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Natasha Prenn, LCSW

Natasha Prenn, LCSW, senior faculty member. Natasha has dedicated her career to translating AEDP® theory into clear, actionable steps and refining the language used in interventions. With a deep commitment to making AEDP® training accessible and practical, Natasha pioneered both the AEDP® Essential and Advanced Skills Courses. 

Natasha’s dedication to training therapists led to her co-authoring Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with Diana Fosha. Her latest book, Deliberate Practice in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, co-authored with Hanna Levenson (APA June 2025), focuses on the systematic practice of AEDP skills and interventions.

Natasha offers coaching and psychotherapy to individuals and couples and AEDP® supervision for therapists. She is a founding editor, alongside Kari Gleiser, of Transformance: The AEDP Journal. Some of her articles and book chapters are available on the AEDP® website.

 

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