Linda Thai, LMSW

Linda Thai, LMSW ERYT-200 is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body-based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people from all over the world to promote mindfulness, recover from trauma, and tend to grief as a means of self care. Linda’s work centers on healing with a special focus on the experiences of adult children of refugees and immigrants.Her teaching is infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom. She has assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She has a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.

Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and structural dissociation of the personality, and offers the Safe and Sound Protocol, yoga, and meditation within her practice. Linda works on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people (Fairbanks, Alaska) with those recovering from addiction, trauma, and mental illness. She is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and
intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.

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 Supervisor-In-Training. She has been a member of the Experiential Assistant team since 2023 and is 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, as well as providing therapy for therapists.

Elley has a passion for teaching that began with providing continuing education presentations on mental health and has been most alive in her teaching in the Master of Social Work program at Keuka College. Additionally, she has assisted numerous social work students in previous field placements and provided supervision to clinicians working towards licensure. She is delighted to now begin to bring her supervisory/teaching skills to blend with her love for AEDP. Through her time as an Experiential Assistant, and most recently, presenting in the inaugural Clinician’s Corner event for the AEDP Institute, her excitement and passion for helping others learn this model has blossomed even further. As a supervisor, Elley strives to be warm, affirming, bring humor and play, and provide a mix of strong attunement and left brain engagement to promote accompaniment, safety, and confidence in learning.

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.

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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Location: Boston, MA, USA

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Kelly Prothero, LCSW

Kelly Prothero, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in Oregon and New York State.

In 2011, Kelly was introduced to AEDP and became quickly drawn to the healing potential of the 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. Her clinical interests include treating trauma, using Intra-Relational AEDP (IR-AEDP), and the use of empathy to facilitate healing.

Kelly has been instrumental in developing Portland AEDP, a group committed to the development of AEDP in the Portland area. 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 renowned psychologist, Dr. Richard Miller. It was her background in yoga that opened Kelly to the experiential and transformational aspects of AEDP.

Kelly knows first-hand how a strong supervisory relationship can shape and impact one’s AEDP journey, and she is grateful to those who championed her along the way. Kelly aims to bring this same care and enthusiasm to her work as a supervisor. She is known for her warmth, clarity and authenticity, both as an AEDP therapist and supervisor.

https://www.kellyprotherolcsw.com/

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Judy Silvan, LICSW, LCSW

I’m Judy Silvan (LICSW, LCSW, she/her), an early enthusiast of AEDP and a licensed psychotherapist practicing in Massachusetts and California. I’m certified as both an AEDP Therapist and Supervisor, and I also hold certifications in Bioenergetic Analysis and Mindfulness in Psychotherapy.

I’ve been an Experiential Assistant in AEDP courses since 2010 and have had the privilege of working with over ten patients as part of the AEDP Research Project. Much of my clinical work has been with individuals navigating complex histories, including sexual trauma, and I bring that depth of experience into both my therapy and supervision.

Teaching and supervising are truly at the heart of my work. I’ve led seminars for psychiatry interns at Harvard Medical School and offered workshops for the AEDP Africa Regional Community in South Africa. I’ve also presented on AEDP and the treatment of sexual trauma in complex PTSD in Diana Fosha’s Immersion courses and seminars.

In supervision, I aim to create a collaborative, supportive, and growth-oriented space where you can deepen your skills, build confidence, and feel genuinely accompanied in your learning. Whether you’re early in your AEDP journey or working toward certification, I tailor supervision to meet you where you are.

I continue to expand my own learning through training in psychedelic-assisted approaches to emotional healing and a certification program in executive coaching.

My work is grounded in a strong commitment to equity and inclusion, including ongoing exploration of how oppression related to race, gender, family structure, neurodiversity, and other human differences impacts our clients—and ourselves as clinicians.

I’d love to connect with you. You can learn more or reach out through my website: judysilvanpsychotherapy.com

Location: Massachusetts , USA

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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.

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