About the Editors of Transformance: The AEDP® Journal
transformance: The AEDP Journal has been guided by a series of dedicated editors who have significantly contributed to the development and dissemination of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).
The editorial leadership of Transformance has been essential in fostering the growth of AEDP worldwide, nurturing the creativity and knowledge base of the AEDP community, and ensuring the journal remains a vital resource for practitioners and researchers alike
Editor-in-Chief: Carrie Ruggieri
Carrie has been an active member of the AEDP Institute since completing the Immersion course in 2007. She is the Editor in Chief of Transformance: The AEDP Journal (since 2024) where she served as Associate Editorsince 2019. Her written contributions to the Journal include: Laura Hillenbrand: Author as True Other—Inspiring Quantum Resilience (Vol. 3); AEDP-Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (Vol. 8); AEDP Author as True Other: A Successful Application of the AEDP Ethos in a Self-Help Book—A Review of Ron Frederick’s Loving Like You Mean It (Vol. 9); and An Ecology of Core Self Flourishing (Vol. 13).
Carrie earned her Master’s degree in Psychology at The New School for Social Research and is a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. In her Rhode Island psychotherapy practice specializing in complex trauma, drawing on her developmental research background from the Margaret S. Mahler Observational Research Lab at The New School and the Infant Behavior Clinic at Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University. Alongside AEDP psychotherapy, she once offered Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and conducts trauma evaluations through the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic.
Senior Editor.: 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.