Arielle Jean-Pierre, PhD

Arielle Jean-Pierre, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in New York City. She is a level 3 AEDP therapist and specializes in working with clients navigating ADHD and other executive functioning difficulties as well as issues of self-esteem. After attending a seminar in 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in response to police brutality, she quickly realized the critical and precious importance of AEDP as a vessel for facilitating healing and connection within the therapeutic relationship. Wanting more of this for the Black community, Arielle responded to the Vision Collective’s call to action to hone AEDP as a resource to support healing from racialized trauma. She is especially passionate about utilizing AEDP to undo the aloneness that comes with existing in predominantly White spaces within a Black body. 

Arielle has served as an EA for a number of courses, including AEDP Immersion, AEDP Essential Skills, and the advanced skills module “Working with Disorganized Attachment.” 

Sobeyda Valle-Ellis, LCSW

Sobeyda is a Clinical Social Worker with 20+ years of experience navigating the intricate intersections of culture, identity, trauma, and relationships. As a certified EFT Couples Therapist and Level 2 AEDP Therapist, she brings both specialized expertise and cultural attunement to her therapy approach and in her role as Director of HeartMatters NYC Counseling.

As a 1.5 generation Latina who grew up in Queens’ diverse immigrant neighborhoods, Sobeyda understands firsthand the complexity of holding multiple identities and navigating multiple worlds—the cultural agility required to move fluidly between contexts while learning to honor differences and notice areas for growth.

Married to David, Sobeyda is part of a multiracial couple who raised four multiracial children in a home where navigating multiple identities was a part of daily life. She brings both professional insight and lived experience to her practice, skillfully holding space for the ways racialized experiences, trauma, and attachments shape our most intimate relationships and sense of self.

Elley Newton,  LCSW-R, AEDP Certified Therapist

Elley Newton is a Certified AEDP Therapist and a member of the Experiential Assistant team, as well as a member of the AEDP Finger Lakes community. She maintains a private practice in rural upstate New York near the Finger Lakes with primary areas of focus on adolescent and young adult mental health. She often works with individuals presenting for anxiety, depression, eating disorders, OCD, relational concerns, and trauma, as well as helping emerging adults navigate this transitional phase of life. In addition, she frequently works with adults who want to heal their attachment and relational wounds to have rich and meaningful relationships in their present life. Elley also enjoys providing therapy for other therapists. When she’s not engaged in AEDP with clients, she also teaches in the Master of Social Work program at Keuka College, where she delights in sneaking the spirit of AEDP into the curriculum. Outside of work, you might find Elley gardening, running, spending time with her family, and being entertained by the antics of her chickens

Nicky Cameron, LCSW, AEDP Certified Therapist

Nicky Cameron, LCSW, is an AEDP Certified Therapist. She is a native of Jamaica. Driven by her unyielding determination to reduce suicide rates, normalize mental health hygiene, and mental health illness among youth, she founded Ideal Case Management Services, and Emergent Counseling & Consulting. Nicky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has accumulated over two decade’s worth of experience serving in various capacities within the field of Behavioral Health. 

Nicky is a Youth Mentor, and has been recognized in her community for mobilizing large youth groups to perform community service projects. She is a Behavioral Health Case Management Supervisor, a Motivational Speaker, and a Qualified Clinical Supervisor and Mentors other mental health clinicians.

Nicky embraces a spiritual path to healing, and believes in the body’s organic intelligence. She is trained in integrative body-based therapies such as: AEDP™, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Brain-spotting, EMDR, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping).

Nicky is a Guest Presenter in AEDP Immersion and has presented in Essential Skills (ES1).  She is also a founding member of the AEDP Institute’s Vision Collective working to develop approaches to using AEDP to heal racialized trauma and Co-Chair of the Peer Group-Racial Trauma and Spirituality. Nicky is a lover of Jazz, an overachiever, and she enjoys cooking, hand-knitting, arts and crafts, singing, dancing, traveling, and hosting intense game nights.

Gerald Brooks, LCSW

Gerald Brooks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with licensure in Tennessee, Nevada, Virginia, and Michigan. He began his career at age 20, working with adults with persistent mental health concerns, and later became a Clinical Director. He holds master’s degrees in counseling psychology, spirituality, culture and health, and sport management. He is completing a master’s degree in religion and pursuing a doctorate in sports and performance psychology. His credentials include Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Certified Professional Coach, Department of Transportation Certified Substance Abuse Professional, and a certificate in sports social work from the University of Michigan.

Gerald operates a solo private practice in Michigan and serves as the Director of Mental Performance and Wellness Services at Western Michigan University. This department integrates therapy, psychiatry, mental performance, and nutrition into one collaborative model of care. He also functions as a senior psychiatric social worker, therapist, and program manager for the university’s mental health program. He serves as the lead therapist for WMU Athletics, the interdisciplinary Eating Disorder Team, and the Medical Weight Loss program.

Gerald’s journey with AEDP began in 2021. He is a Level 3 AEDP therapist, an active member of the AEDP Vision Collective, and part of a subgroup focused on racialized trauma and therapeutic work with Black men. He has served as an Experiential Assistant and Guest Presenter in Immersion with Diana Fosha, a Guest Presenter in Essential Skills, and was a presenter at the AEDP 2025 Conference.

His clinical work spans children, adolescents, college students, student athletes, and adults. While trained in multiple approaches, he considers AEDP his therapeutic home and strives to be a deeply attuned and transformational presence in his work with clients.

Kelly Prothero, LCSW

Kelly Prothero, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Portland, Oregon. After earning her graduate degree from Smith College School for Social Work, Kelly worked in community mental health settings in New York City.

After moving to the West Coast in 2011, Kelly was introduced to AEDP and became quickly drawn to the healing potential of the AEDP model. Kelly went on to become a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor under the mentorship and supervision of SueAnne Piliero, Jenna Osiason, Karen Pando-Mars and Jerry Lamagna.

Kelly has assisted in numerous Essential Skills and Core Training courses throughout the country. She has been instrumental in forming and developing Portland AEDP, a group committed to the development and growth of AEDP in Portland and surrounding areas. In addition to her clinical practice, Kelly brings over 20 years of yoga experience to her work. She is a certified yoga teacher and studied Yoga Nidra meditation extensively with psychologist, Dr. Richard Miller. It was her background in yoga that opened Kelly to the experiential and transformational healing aspects of AEDP.

Kelly brings warmth, humor and authenticity to her work as both an AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Her clinical interests include treating trauma and dissociation and using “intra-relational” and bold relational clinical methods to facilitate transformational

Judy Silvan, LICSW, LCSW

Judy Silvan LICSW, LCSW, she/her is an early AEDP enthusiast and a licensed U.S. psychotherapist in Massachusetts and California. Judy is Certified as an AEDP Supervisor & Therapist, as well as in Bioenergetic Analysis and Mindfulness in Psychotherapy.  She’s been an Experiential Assistant in AEDP courses since 2010, and has treated over ten patients​ as part of the AEDP Research Project. Most of her research patients have presented with symptoms from serious complexities in their histories, many including sexual traumas​.  Her passion for practicing, supervising and teaching AEDP runs deep: She recently taught a five week AEDP seminar series to Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Interns, and another workshop to m​embers of AEDP Africa Regional Community​ in South Africa.

She has presented ​on the topic of AEDP and the treatment of sexual trauma in complex PTSD in several of Diana Fosha’s Immersion courses and seminars.  Judy continues her own clinical training in the area of Psychedelics to enhance emotional healing with AEDP, and in a Certification Program for Executive Coaching.

Emerging ways of un-doing oppression in racism, gender, family composition, neurodiversity and other under-celebrated human contingencies build Judy’s activist value base. Reach out to connect with Judy through her website: ​judysilvanpsychotherapy.com

Kosu Boudreau, RP, MSW, RSW

Kosu Boudreau, RP, MSW, RSW, is mixed-race, black-identified psychotherapist/ social worker from Toronto, Canada with over 18 years’ experience working with trauma, addictions and end-of-life care. Kosu currently is in private practice with a focus on trauma treatment using psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. She uses an integrated, somatically-grounded, experiential approach, which includes: AEDP™, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP). All of these therapies emphasize integration of mind/body/spirit and give primacy to the importance of relationship. Kosu is  also an experienced group facilitator, yoga teacher and long-time meditation practitioner. She is also a founding member of the AEDP Institute’s Vision Collective working to develop approaches to using AEDP to heal racialized trauma.

Emily Bilbao, LCSW

Emily is a Certified AEDP Therapist and is in the process of becoming a Certified AEDP Supervisor. She received her Master’s degree from Smith College School for Social Work in 2004 and has been practicing as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since.

Much of her work is focused on Queer and non-binary Individuals and couples. She is also a certified Psilocybin Facilitator in Oregon and is a Co-Founder of the Institutes AEDP & Psychedelics Committee. She teaches seminars for the AEDP Institute and has presented her work at Immersion. She is a research therapist with AEDP’s 16 Session Research Project. She a member of the Portland AEDP Steering Committee and coordinates in person training opportunities and events locally.

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Michael Mondoro, LCSW

Michael Mondoro is an AEDP Adjunct Faculty Member, Certified AEDP Therapist, a Certified AEDP Supervisor, an Intra-Relational AEDP parts work enthusiast, a trauma and trauma-related dissociation specialist, a member of the AEDP Steering Committee, a participating certification supervisor in the AEDP Institute BIPOC Therapist Initiative, and an active member of the AEDP community since 2012.

Michael is dedicated to helping individuals who have experienced relational trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD to securely connect, heal, and flourish in life. As someone who has experienced the profound benefits of post-traumatic growth and is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, complex, relational trauma work is near and dear to his heart.

Michael leads 3 clinical consultation groups for those interested in expanding their knowledge and effectiveness utilizing AEDP across the post-traumatic spectrum.

Michael is trained in complementary models of thought and therapy that inform and enrich the somatic, mindful, and experiential nature of his AEDP practice: Internal Family Systems, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Soto Zen Buddhism, Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.

Prior to entering private practice and teaching, Michael trained at New York University and held staff psychotherapist and supervisory roles in outpatient community mental health in New York City, New York, in the United States of America. He is a licensed clinical social worker based in New York City and Westport, Connecticut.michael mondoro, lcsw nyc + westport, ct // 

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