Archives: Faculty

Elley Newton,  LCSW-R, AEDP Certified Therapist

Hi!  I’m Elley, an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor-In-Training. I’ve been a member of the Experiential Assistant team since 2023 and am a member of the AEDP Finger Lakes community. I maintain a private practice in rural upstate New York near the Finger Lakes with primary areas of focus being adolescent and emerging adult mental health, as well as working with complex trauma across the life span. I also enjoy providing therapy for other therapists. 

 I consider my supervision style to be warm, authentic, encouraging, playful, curious, and to have a strong relational focus. I really enjoy helping supervisees build confidence in themselves as AEDP clinicians. I love to hold right brain attunement and presence while nerding out left-brain style about AEDP theory.  Whether supervisees are just starting their AEDP journey or moving towards certification, I feel enlivened helping support that particular layer of learning that we can do together and enjoy tailoring supervision to meet the specific needs of clinicians’ current growing edges. 

Other areas that I have enjoyed supporting clinician learning have included presenting for the AEDP Institute’s Clinician’s Corner on Relational Healing in Emerging Adulthood and teaching as an adjunct in the Masters of Social Work program at Keuka College, where I delight in sneaking in the spirit of AEDP into the curriculum. 

When not engaged in my therapy and supervision work, you can likely find me enjoying slow, quiet moments through tending to my little flock of chickens, gardening, drawing birds, and embroidering. 

Location: New York, USA

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Julie Clay

Julie Clay is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified AEDP therapist, and supervisor in training with a private practice in Virginia. As a life long learner, she returned to graduate school as a midlife career changer. Rooted in Internal Family Systems, she came to AEDP to add additional layers of nuance, complexity and effectiveness to her work with clients. She is particularly drawn to the consultation / supervision model in AEDP of “Rigor without Shame” and has assisted in many Essential Skills and Advanced Skills Modules. Julie deeply appreciates the way a long term supervision relationship both securely held her and rigorously challenged her to hone her skills.

As she sets sail on her own journey to become a certified supervisor – she is excited to explore her growth edges with curiosity and compassion and with appreciation for being “In it together.”

Leah Subar, MSc

Hello! I’m Leah, a Denver native who’s been living in Israel for over 35 years. I work especially with adult women in Torah-observant communities, offering therapy both in person and via Zoom. I hold space with a presence that is compassionate, attuned, and grounded.

Before discovering AEDP, I trained in dance/movement psychotherapy, which continues to inform my sensitivity to somatic cues and the wisdom of the body. Since 2021, I’ve participated in the AEDP 16-session research network, contributing to the growing body of research on transformational healing.

I’m currently pursuing doctoral studies focused on moments of meeting and the implicit, right-brain-to-right-brain messages that surround their unfolding. I’m drawn to those subtle, often unspoken exchanges that foster safety and intersubjective delight.

This sensibility also shapes my clinical work, grounded in moment-to-moment tracking of somatic experience and emotional depth. Years of mothering—nine children and many grandchildren—have formed in me a capacity to stay close, hold complexity, and meet people where they are with warmth and strength.

In supervision, I aim to support therapists in deepening their AEDP practice through presence, attuned pacing, and shared discovery.

more about me: www.linkedin.com/in/leahsubar

Location: Israel

Karen Tantillo, DSW, LCSW

Karen is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training in New York City. She has been in clinical practice for over 25 years working with both individuals and couples/relationships. She is passionate about AEDP to deepen relationship work with those who have significant and complex relational trauma histories and is also Certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).

Karen has provided clinical supervision throughout most of her career, beginning in her early years as an inpatient/outpatient psychiatric social worker in several NYC hospitals and later as a community mental health therapist in both Atlanta, Georgia and Greenville, SC. Karen received her Masters in Social Work (MSW) from NYU and most recently earned a Doctorate in clinical social worker from UPenn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. The doctoral program brought focus on clinical supervision, AEDP qualitative research/writing and teaching. She completed her dissertation on “Undoing Aloneness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How AEDP Clinicians Have Experienced the Shift to Telehealth and the Impact on the Therapeutic Relationship” in 2022.

She is excited to provide clinical supervision and hold space for deliberate practice in experientially learning and growing in this deeply transformative model. Her style is warm, relational and collaborative. She practices both in-person and online in NYC and online Zoom in Georgia and South Carolina, where she is also licensed. She is the proud mother of three young adult children and forever a supportive partner in her relationship. 

Noam Kollet Levin 

I’m Noam Kollet Levin, MA, a Rehabilitation Psychologist and Certified AEDP Therapist in Israel, currently in the process of becoming a Certified Supervisor. I have been practicing psychotherapy since 2008, working with clients facing trauma, life crossroads, and relational challenges. My clinical focus also includes dyadic work with parents and children in the context of trauma.

I was first introduced to AEDP in 2016 through experiential training in Israel, and I was deeply moved by its relational and embodied approach. Since then, AEDP has become both a professional home and a personal path of growth. I have also had the privilege of serving as an Experiential Assistant in AEDP Institute courses, where I continue to learn and share in the spirit of togetherness and undoing aloneness.

In my clinical and supervisory work, I strive to bring presence, courage, and kindness—creating a safe space where pain can be met, transformation can unfold, and clients and supervisees alike can connect more fully with themselves and with others.

Location: Israel

Gitit Jacobson-Ziv, Clinical Psychologist

Gitit Jacobson-Ziv, M.A., is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified supervisor in Israel, and is an AEDP Certified Therapist. In her private practice, Gitit works with adults and adolescents, specializing in at-risk youth and people with trauma. For the last 20 years, She was the clinical director at the ‘Beit-Elazraki Home’, a boarding school for at-risk children and adolescents that aims to fully rehabilitate its residents. She supervised the clinical and educational staff and was in charge of treatment planning for the boarding school children. Years of working with attachment trauma and the challenges of helping them prompted her to continually learn, and AEDP was a perfect fit for her work. Gitit is trained in Mindfulness, Biofeedback, EFT, and EFCT, SEX THERAPY, and I am a licensed CBT therapist.

Learn more about me: https://aedpinstitute.org/directory/gitit-jacobson-ziv-clinical-psychologist/

Location: Israel

Charlotte Lee

Charlotte Lee is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training, as well as a Registered Social Worker (RSW) licensed in Ontario, Canada. She holds a Master of Social Sciences in Counselling from the City University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Social Science in Social Work from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Additionally, she has completed training in teaching children with special education needs (SEN), advanced transformative couple therapy, focusing, children focusing, play therapy, NLP, Enneagram, and MBTI.

Her clinical practice encompasses a wide range of therapeutic areas including anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, parenting and family dynamics, interpersonal relationships, life transitions, and personal development. She provides services to clients of all ages and facilitates support groups for caregivers and parents to strengthen emotional well-being.

With over 30 years of professional experience, Charlotte has worked extensively with SEN children, mainstream students, and parents in Hong Kong. Since obtaining her AEDP certification in 2022, she has developed and personally delivered a parenting course that integrates AEDP principles with her broad clinical expertise and life experience. The course focuses on fostering a sense of security, love, and emotional strength, helping families manage emotions, resolve conflicts, and grow with peace. 

To promote AEDP to the community, Charlotte integrates AEDP techniques for cultivating a sense of safety and emotional transformation into all her teachings. She has collaborated with many organizations in both Hong Kong and Canada, including schools, churches, and mental health centers. She also conducts workshops and training sessions on parenting, emotional management, support for parents with SEN children, couple communication, personality frameworks such as MBTI and Enneagram, mindfulness, and relational healing.

Kristina Rassidaki, MA

Kristina is a certified AEDP therapist based in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Psychology and began her career as a Person-Centered Therapist in the late 1990s. While studying Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, she discovered AEDP and
embarked on her training in 2017.

In addition to her private practice in Athens, Kristina serves on the faculty of Play Therapy Greece and works as a parenting and teacher advisor and trainer. She is the creator of the 3Step Method, now also taught at university level, which equips parents and educators with effective strategies for managing challenging situations with children of all ages. A prolific author, Kristina has published five books for parents, educators and students with one of Greece’s leading publishers. She is deeply passionate about AEDP, having experienced firsthand its transformative power in ways no other therapy had before. As the first certified AEDP therapist in Greece, she hopes to
introduce this approach to the professional community in Athens. Kristina’s studies and career have taken her across Europe, and she is bilingual in English and Greek, with proficiency in French.

Location: Athens Greece