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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Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Karen is a psychotherapist in San Rafael, California, and Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute. She was irresistibly drawn to AEDP in 2005 and captivated by the depth and breadth of this transformational model. She immersed herself in training and consultation with Dr. Fosha and three years of core training with Dr. Frederick. Ms. Pando-Mars is one of the founders of AEDP West and chaired the AEDP Institute Education Committee from 2011-2018.  Since 2020, Ms. Pando-Mars is a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion Committee) and in 2022, she became a consultant to the Vision Collective.

Ms. Pando-Mars’ passionate interest in what cultivates deep connection between Self and Other has been furthered by attachment theory and related neuroscience. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal relational trauma.

Ms. Pando-Mars background in somatic and experiential therapies, including Focusing, Biofeedback, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray-Worldplay, EMDR, and Authentic Movement, influence and are woven throughout her work. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course.

She teaches AEDP across the United States and internationally.  Her publication “Tailoring AEDP interventions to attachment style,” 2016 Transformance Journal, 6 (2) is the basis for the book, Tailoring Treatment to attachment patterns: Healing trauma in relationship, co-authored with Diana Fosha, to be published in March 2025 by Norton & Co., now available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute, co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Los Angeles, California and author of the award winning books Living Like You Mean It (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Loving Like You Mean It (Central Recovery Press, 2019). Since 1994, Dr. Frederick has been training in, practicing, and teaching the AEDP model of psychotherapy, and has received extensive training and supervision from Dr. Fosha. Past experience includes fourteen years as a Clinical Supervisor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Park House Day Treatment Program, a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Psychology and HIV in the AIDS Center Program at Roosevelt Hospital, NYC, where he later worked as a staff psychologist, and a year-long training rotation in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC. Dr. Frederick supervises trainees in the AEDP model, and has co-facilitated, with Dr. Fosha, AEDP numerous Immersion Courses and workshops. (more…)

Kari Gleiser, PhD

Kari is a senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute.  In her private practice, she specializes in applying AEDP to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. For 14 years, Dr. Gleiser was the co-founder/co-director of the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH, a trauma center dedicated to multi-modal healing of mind, body and spirit.

Dr. Gleiser has co-developed an “intra-relational” model of therapy that imports AEDP’s relational and experiential interventions to patients’ internal systems of dissociated self-states. Dr. Gleiser has written clinical papers and book chapters and presents internationally on trauma treatment. She also explores the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She now lives in Tuscany, Italy.

Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

Jerry is a senior faculty member with the AEDP Institute and a psychotherapist in private practice in New York and New Jersey. With training in psychodrama, EMDR, ego state therapy, trauma treatment and IFS and over 20 years studying AEDP, his clinical work has primarily focused on the treatment of complex trauma.

Along with Dr. Kari Gleiser, Jerry developed a modified version of AEDP for the treatment of dissociative disorders and has published three papers and a book chapter in AEDP 2.0: Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing.  

In addition to writing, supervising and providing psychotherapy, Jerry has presented internationally at conferences sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), the International Experiential and Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Nalanda Institute, The Minnesota Trauma Project and the AEDP Institute.

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, is a Senior and founding Faculty member of the AEDP Institute. He has been instrumental in the development and teaching of AEDP across the US and in Canada, Sweden, Israel, Norway, and Denmark. He also supervises individuals and small groups of clinicians learning AEDP around the world. A sought after teacher and speaker, Ben is known for his open and engaging style, his humor, and his particular ability to translate complex theoretical concepts into user-friendly, accessible and engaging learning experiences. Ben has edited a book and contributed many book chapters and articles in psychology and social service journals as well as mainstream magazines. His most recent publication is a chapter on therapeutic presence in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 edited by Diana Fosha. During the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US, Ben was the Director of Clinical Services at Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC),

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Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA

Jeanne is a certified AEDP Therapist, Supervisor and a Senior Faculty member of the AEDP Institute. Jeanne has been a part of the Essential Skills courses in NYC since their inception in 2010, first as an assistant and then as a teacher. Jeanne has helmed Essential Skills courses in North Carolina, New York City and on-line, and has guest-taught in many different trainings.

Jeanne’s initial training as a psychoanalyst was quite a contrast to her first love and work — theatre and dance, both of which embody the unbridled expression of human emotion. The work of psychoanalytic psychotherapy though deeply satisfying felt constraining. Jeanne was introduced to the work of Diana Fosha in 2005 and she never looked back having found a proper clinical home, no longer constrained. Jeanne has always been a wordsmith and a lover of metaphor. There are many Jeanne-isms that her clients and supervisees know well and she encourages people to use them liberally. “We learn to listen with our eyes and look with our ears!” being one of them.
The language of emotional granularity is rich and powerful and along with the felt sense of emotions, can round out the edges of a person’s experience. Jeanne loves the work of James Pennebaker, The secret Life of Pronouns!

Jeanne’s current interests run the gamut from creativity and imagination’s role in therapy to the musicality of therapy, vocal training for therapists and intentional language as powerful therapeutic tools. Alongside Jeanne’s therapeutic work she is a social justice activist and believes that as therapists we can help to change the world one human at a time. Working to ensure that the work of therapy carries out into the person’s community as the winds of change carry them forward.

Helping people to harness their change to be citizens of the world. The winds of change can send people soaring…. That is TRANSFORMANCE!