Michael Mondoro, LCSW

Michael Mondoro is an AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty Member, Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor, and a specialist in developmental trauma and dissociation.

Michael’s clinical work centers on the relational wounds and dissociative presentations of childhood emotional injury and complex trauma — where transformation is often hardest to reach. He works with and teaches Intra-Relational AEDP (IR-AEDP), the parts-work model developed by Kari Gleiser and Jerry Lamagna. AEDP psychotherapy provides the foundation and heart of how he practices and teaches. An integrationist at heart, Michael practices AEDP as a living framework that welcomes other approaches rather than competing with them. From that foundation he draws on attachment science, somatic methods, and memory reprocessing and reconsolidation to restore the flow between body, mind, and heart.

Michael offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), grounded in the AEDP model and frame — using expanded states to deepen relational and experiential change. He also offers breathwork as part of this experiential approach. His practice is further enriched by training in EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, Internal Family Systems, and Relational Psychoanalysis, and shaped by a long-standing contemplative practice rooted in the Buddhist tradition.

As a teacher and supervisor, Michael emphasizes the self of the therapist, with the supervisory relationship serving as a living model of the therapeutic one. He teaches within the Institute’s Essential Skills program, has been an invited presenter at Diana Fosha’s AEDP Immersion, and taught Foundations in AEDP Psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP). His seminar From Fear to Flow: Confidently Navigating Dissociative States in Complex Trauma with AEDP reflects the clinical territory he is most known for, and in June 2027 he presents The Protected Wound: Transforming Shame, Defense, and Complex Trauma with AEDP and Parts Work Approaches. He also leads three clinical consultation groups for therapists working across the post-traumatic spectrum, helping other clinicians deepen their experiential presence, courage, and capacity to stay connected even in the most difficult emotional terrain.

Whether in therapy, supervision, or training, his focus is the same: helping people reconnect with their wholeness, their capacity for love, and their movement toward flourishing.

An active member of the AEDP community since 2012, Michael has served on the Institute’s Steering, Curriculum, and Education Committees. Prior to private practice and teaching, he trained at New York University and held staff psychotherapist and supervisory roles in outpatient community mental health in New York City. He is a licensed clinical social worker based in Westport, Connecticut and New York City.

www.michaeljmondorolcsw.com 

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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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Location: Boston, MA, USA

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Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW

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Hilary is author of the international award-winning self-help book on emotions, AEDP, and the Change Triangle, 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 is also the co-author of the award-winning parenting book on emotions, Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive (Alcove Press/PRH). She received her B.A. in biochemistry from Wesleyan University, a DDS from Columbia University, and an MSW from Fordham University,

Hilary is a certified psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor. Hilary has published articles in The New York Times, TIME, NPR, the Psychotherapy Networker, Psychology Today, and Oprah. Her Change Triangle 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 2004. 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. Hilary received her AEDP Certification in 2010. She gradually built her practice and continued her education at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she earned a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2008. Hilary also enjoyed being the Mental Health Consultant for the television series MadMen.

Available for case consultations only, not for individual ongoing supervision.

Location: New York, New York, USA

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Cristina Mendonça, Clinical Psychologist

Cristina Mendonça, is a clinical psychologist and an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Training. She has a vast international private practice from Rio de Janeiro to Rome, where she now lives. 

After completing the Immersion course in 2013, Cristina was absolutely taken by the AEDP model and since then has been deeply engaged in making it procedural. She has been a teaching assistant / experiential assistant at many, many in-person trainings held in Rio, London and New York as well as in many online trainings. Since 2021 Cristina has been Lead Assistant in Institute- sponsored Immersion, Essential Skills (many!) and Advanced Skills online courses; and she is very much on track to becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor. 

AEDP has “undone her therapist’s self aloneness” and changed Cristina’s professional life’s trajectory for good. 

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Location: Rome, Italy

Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych

Shari Geller, PhD, C.Psych, is an author, clinical psychologist, certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher and leader in the field of therapeutic presence.

Shari offers training modules in therapeutic presence internationally as part of a longer-term vision of having presence be a foundational training across psychotherapy approaches. With over thirty years’ experience weaving psychology and mindfulness, Shari co-authored the book, Therapeutic Presence: A Mindful Approach to Effective Therapeutic Relationships – 2nd Edition (2022) with Dr. Leslie S. Greenberg. Shari’s book: A Practical Guide For Cultivating Therapeutic Presence (2017), offers hands on tools and guidance for cultivating and strengthening presence in therapy.  Shari created the Therapeutic Rhythm and Mindfulness Program (TRM™), a group modality integrating mindfulness, rhythm practices and emotion-focused awareness to enhance wellbeing and presence.   (more…)

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…)

James Santos,MDiv, MA, MFT

James Santos is an AEDP Certified Therapist and 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…)

Location: Lousiville, KY, USA

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…)

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