Nicky Cameron, LCSW

Nicky Cameron, LCSW, 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 member of the AEDP Institute’s Vision Collective 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 based in Michigan and is also licensed in Nevada. He has a solo practice and works at Western Michigan University as a psychiatric social worker and a therapist for WMU Athletics. 

His clinical experience includes working with children, adolescents, college students, and adults in various clinical settings. He is a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC), Certified Professional Coach (CPC), and a Department of Transportation certified Substance Abuse Professional (SAP). He recently completed Essential Skills 1 in AEDP and is currently in core training working toward certification.

Gerald has been an Experiential Assistant in Immersion and a Guest Presenter in Essential Skills. 

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.

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 a 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 Institute Education 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.

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Mark Green, MD

Mark is a psychiatrist – originally from London, now in Boston – specialising in addictions and psychedelic therapies. After residency and fellowships at Cornell, he conducted neurobiology research in stress at Rockefeller University and then was a harm reductionist addictions specialist and psychopharmacologist, running programs big and small (from state-wide to boutique dual disorders programs ). He has been faculty at Harvard, Cornell and Vermont and trained at every level in evidence based therapies and psychedelic assisted therapies, and more. He has lectured nationally in these areas as well as AEDP Institute (AEDP and ketamine) and published on AEDP and addictions in the Transformance journal. 

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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

Joshua DeSilva, PsyD, CGP

Joshua DeSilva, PsyD, CGP (they/them) guest presented in the AEDP Institute-sponsored seminar, “Wounds We Cannot See” in October, 2020 and currently serves on the AEDP Institute’s DBEI Committee. Joshua is a licensed psychologist in Virginia and DC. They identify as a nonbinary Latine person of queer experience. Their family immigrated from Venezuela and maintains strong ties to Latin America. Growing up in the Midwest as a first generation American and attending college and graduate school as a first generation student has powerfully impacted their sense of the importance (and difficulty) of empowering diverse groups to live and learn in spaces that have historically been oppressive and unwelcoming. Professionally, Dr. DeSilva (Josh) is the Associate Director and Director of Training at American University Counseling Center. Josh feels lucky to be a part of the future of psychology in this role. They were appointed by Governor Ralph Northam to serve as a Member of the Virginia Latino Advisory Board and currently serve as Vice Chair of the Board. (more…)

Isis Bey, LCSW, CCTP II

Isis Bey, LCSW, CCTP II, is the founder and owner of Harmony Health Therapeutic Services and an Adjunct Professor with multiple Universities. Ms. Bey is also an NC Supervisor for Clinical Social Workers. She is a trainer and consultant. Ms. Bey completed her Graduate education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has over 25 years’ experience working with children and families and training. She is Nationally Certified as an Advanced Level Complex Trauma Clinician, Gang Specialist, Triple P Parent Provider.

Her training/consulting experience includes Advocacy, Ethics, Implicit Bias, Systematic Disparities, Anti-Racism, Group Therapy, Child Welfare, Parent Education, Criminal Justice, Gang Intervention, Human Trafficking, Domestic and Teen Dating Violence. Her experience in the clinical field includes but is not limited to Crisis Intervention, Assessment, Individual, Groups and Couples Counseling, and Trauma. She also has practice experience using Mindfulness, Somatic Experience, Spiritual Social Work, African Drumming and Dance as a therapeutic tool. (more…)

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