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…)

James Santos

James Santos is a member of the AEDP DBEI committee. James Santos provides a passion and presence to promote diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion. James Santos has worked in many multicultural settings in downtown Lousiville, KY, and led trips internationally where he provided pastoral care and education, helping groups navigate new cultural and spiritual experiences.

James’s areas of competency and experience include being a practitioner, educator, and facilitator of diversity and inclusion in various contexts. In addition to his private practice work at Cornerstone Care, James serves as a corporate chaplain and life coach (more…)

Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW

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Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW, is author of the international award-winning book, It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self (Random House). She received her B.A. in biochemistry from Wesleyan University and a DDS from Columbia University. The education at Columbia included neuroscience, which was so relevant in understanding why AEDP is effective.

Hilary received an MSW from Fordham University. She is a certified psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor. Hilary has published articles in The New York Times, TIME, NBC Think, and Oprah, and her blog is read worldwide.

Hilary has been involved in the AEDP community since 2004. She first heard Diana Fosha present at a conference on Affect Regulation in 2003. Other major influences were AEDP Faculty members Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Eileen Russell, PhD, and Natasha Prenn, LCSW with whom she attended the 2004 AEDP Immersion Course. (more…)

Dina Miqdadi, DPsych

Dina Miqdadi, is a chartered counseling psychologist and a certified AEDP therapist.
She grew up in Jordan and has lived and trained in the US (2 years) and the UK (6 years). She is
now settled in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Dina has trained in an NHS clinic and the Place2Be in the UK, worked/volunteered with various NGOs and INGOs with Arabic speaking refugees in several countries, and has worked with private clinics and a psychiatric hospital in Jordan. She currently has her private practice and volunteers to run AEDP oriented groups for Arabic speaking refugees in Cyprus with a grassroots NGO named “together”.

Judy Silberstein, LCSW 

Judy has been an experiential therapist in private practice for over 35 years. She is a Certified AEDP Therapist, a Certified AEDP Supervisor, an avid explorer of intra-relational parts work, active imagining and CSRT. She continues to be inspired by the model since she studied with Diana Fosha in 2011. Judy offers individual psychotherapy for chronic relational trauma and PTSD, online and in-person in NYC. As a clinical consultant she loves helping consultees be courageous and curious in their work with clients, their client’s parts as well as their own!

Judy has explored various experiential learnings which she weaves into AEDP. She is a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist and Supervisor, actively using body-mind processes in the therapy dyad. She has trained extensively in Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems and EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and CRM – Comprehensive Resource Modeling. (more…)

Martina Verba, LCSW, DSW

Martina Verba, LCSW, DSW is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor in private practice in Westchester County, NY. She fell in love with AEDP when she took Diana’s Immersion course in 2008. She has both assisted and lead-assisted for Immersion and Essential Skills, as well as presented at Immersion. She has extensive experience working with patients with eating disorders and has developed a practice that integrates eating disorder treatment and AEDP. She is on the faculty of the Integrative Trauma Treatment Program at the National Institute of Psychotherapies.

Prior to finding AEDP, Martina worked as an eating disorder specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, a staff therapist at Harvard University’s mental health service, an adjunct professor at Simmons College, and the Director of Counseling at a program for at-risk youth in Boston. (more…)

Kaori Stram, LMHC

Kaori Stram, LMHC is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor. She is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York.  Her AEDP journey started in 2014 when she was first introduced to the work of Yuko Hanakawa and attracted to its warm heart-to-heart connection between a therapist and a client.  She has assisted many courses in-person and online as an experiential assistant and lead assistant.  Since 2021, she has presented at Immersion and ES1 courses as well as trained Japanese therapists in Japan.

Kaori is also participating in an AEDP 16-session research project as a treating therapist.

Her passion is to help spread AEDP to Japan where she originally comes from and has been actively involved in the AEDP Japanese community.

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor, working in Israel. Idit has received her MA and Family Therapy Certification from Tel Aviv University and has practiced therapy with individuals, couples and families, in Aluma Therapy Center and private practice, since 2006. She completed the certified studies of treatment of stress and trauma, at The Trauma Center (Boston, MA), directed by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk (2013-2014).

Nowadays, Idit is teaching family therapy and AEDP through the Ministry of Social Services, and through the Israeli Association of Couples and Family Therapy. Since June 2018, Idit has been appointed the formal AEDP liaison for the Israeli community. In addition, since 2015 she is supervising a medical forum for couples (more…)

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA, is a certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor in training. She has been a Lead Assistant for countless Immersions, Essential Skills, and Advanced Skills Modules. As a founding member of the Portland Oregon AEDP Steering Committee, she has hosted AEDP faculty lead workshops in Portland and Co-Lead a Portland-based Core Training. She was a copresenter in the Institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Deb is in private practice in Portland. She works with couples and individuals, specializing in relationships and sexuality, and complex trauma. As a certified yoga instructor, she incorporates mindfulness, breath, and movement into her work with patients. Deb has a master’s in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle. She is an IPI-certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and continues exploring the varieties of psychedelic therapies that integrate well with AEDP.  
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Malin Endrédi

Malin Endredi is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Her office is in Stockholm, Sweden and nowadays online too. Malin welcomes Swedish and English speaking clients and supervisees. Malin is a member of the AEDP Sweden Program Group and one of two hosts of the AEDP Salon Stockholm/Sweden. She was a copresenter in the institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Malin started her professional life as a clinical psychologist working with distressed parents and their dysregulated babies to help create secure attachment. After 17 years she took a Swedish attachment, relational and emotion focused psychotherapist training. That’s where Malin, through an APA video, first encountered Diana’s ways of working and AEDP and it all clicked.

She became devoted and crossed the Atlantic many times to attend trainings and assisting internationally (more…)

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