Ben Medley, LCSW

Ben Medley, LCSW is an AEDP senior faculty member and has taught AEDP internationally with the AEDP Institute, the National Institute of Psychotherapy, the Cape Cod Institute, NASW, and in many other mental health organizations and clinical practices. In addition to teaching, he enjoys supervising AEDP clinicians individually and in groups. Ben has a private practice in New York City and specializes in working with the LGBTQ+ community. He earned his degree in Clinical Social Work with the NYU Silver School of Social Work. 

His paper “Recovering the True Self: Affirmative Therapy, Attachment and AEDP in Psychotherapy with Gay Men” is published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and he has written a chapter on using portrayals to process core affective experience in Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (APA). Most recently, Ben wrote the chapter “AEDP: A model of change and transformation” in Experiential Therapies for the Treatment of Trauma (Routledge) and is preparing the manuscript “Liberating the Core Self: Using the Triangle of Social Experience to Transform Internalized Oppression with AEDP”.

He has also presented with AEDP faculty member Kate Halliday the “5 Star” seminar Liberating the Core Self from the Confines of Heterosexist Oppression with AEDP and with AEDP faculty member Benjamin Lipton Undoing Shame and Healing Attachment Trauma with Straight and Gay Men (also available on demand). Ben most recently published the book chapter “Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy: A model of change and transformation” in Experiential Therapies for the Treatment of Trauma with Routledge Publishing Company.

Ben serves as Faculty Chair and the Institute’s Social Work Consultant for Continuing Education, and has been a member of the AEDP Institute Steering Committee for two years. He was also the emcee at the Institute’s 3-day conference in April 2025.