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 an AEDP Adjunct Faculty member, AEDP Certified 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 based in Israel. She earned her MA and Family Therapy certification from Tel Aviv University and has been working with individuals, couples, and families since 2006.

Idit was first introduced to AEDP during her training at The Trauma Center in Brookline (Boston), Massachusetts. From that moment on, she felt “positively hooked.” AEDP quickly became not only her clinical compass, but a framework she fully embraced in practice, in writing, and in life. Within the AEDP Institute, Idit has served as the formal AEDP liaison for the Israeli community (2018–2022). She is an AEDP Certified Supervisor, and currently a member of the AEDP Certification Committee, and a member (and Chair) of the Supervisory Review Board.

Idit is deeply engaged in developing AEDP theory and practice, with particular interest in couples and family work, as well as processes of transformation and action tendencies. She publishes in both Hebrew and English. She teaches AEDP courses and family therapy, and provides supervision and offers Individual, couples and family therapy in the Tel Aviv district.

Since October 7, Idit has been working extensively with veterans, war survivors, and families of hostages, supporting individuals and families coping with loss, anxiety, and the complex emotional realities of war.

Goretti Faria, MSW, RCSW, CCC

Goretti is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor who practices as a Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. She attained her Master of Social Work degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and brings over 30 years of experience from community mental health settings and private practice.

Goretti’s expertise lies in psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems. Embracing AEDP in 2014, she has contributed significantly to numerous ES1 and ES2 courses globally, serving as both assistant and Lead Assistant. Until recently, while actively involved with AEDP Vancouver, Goretti was dedicated to championing the growth of AEDP in Vancouver and its environs. In addition to her clinical work, she offers individual and group supervision services. (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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Alana Tappin, CPsych

Alana Tappin, CPsych is a licensed clinical psychologist, and the owner/operator of a private psychology clinic that specializes in psychological support for marginalized and racialized people. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she conducts psychological assessments, treatment and consultation to children, teens and adults. Dr. Tappin also provides supervision and training to students, pre-licensed and licensed mental health therapists. She has long had an interest in the psychological impact of racism and offers trainings on whiteness, shame and racism, and offers anti-oppression and anti-racism training to community organizations, universities, and private businesses. Dr. Tappin earned her doctorate degree from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus in 2012, (more…)

Heloise (Lois) Ridley, EdD, MBA, MA, LPC, NCC

Heloise (Lois) Ridley  is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and a Level 3 AEDP therapist. She earned a doctorate from Wilkes University, where she researched Counselors’ Experiences Utilizing Culturally Attuned, Trauma-Informed Care to Support BIPOC College Students’ Mental Health: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study, which included AEDP and attachment-focused therapists. Lois also holds a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University and an MBA from Pennsylvania State University.

Lois specializes in supporting adults struggling with connection, healthy boundaries, and communication in relationships impacted by early childhood trauma. She also provides strategic and encouraging support for caregivers navigating challenges with their children. Her work emphasizes creating corrective relational experiences that foster healing from attachment trauma.

Lois has presented on topics including Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality, and Psychedelics (AEDP Institute, 2022), Using AEDP to Access the Spiritual Core of BIPOC Clients and Facilitate Recovery from Racial Trauma (AACC World Conference, 2023), and as a guest presenter in the AEDP Immersion course on cultural considerations in promoting transformative change.

She is a founding member of the AEDP Vision Collective working to develop approaches to using AEDP to heal racialized trauma. Lois has served as an Experiential Assistant in programs such as AEDP with Applications to Racialized and Other Relational Developmental Trauma (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023), the AEDP Vision Collective seminar Courageous & Restorative Conversations: Building Cultural Bridges, and in the AEDP Immersion course.

Jessica Slatus, LCSW

Jessica Slatus, LCSW is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor in Colorado.  She is an integral part of the AEDP Rocky Mountains community and has presented locally on a number of topics within AEDP, including the AEDP therapist stance, working with anxiety and defenses, building receptive affective capacity, and metaprocessing.  More recently, she has focused on writing and teaching about working with eating disorders using AEDP, and has authored two publications on the topic: an article in Transformance, the AEDP journal, and a book chapter co-authored with Natasha Prenn in the book Trauma-Informed Approaches to Eating Disorders.Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College, her Masters in Social Work from New York University, and her post-graduate training in eating disorders at the Center for the Study of Anorexia & Bulimia (CSAB).  Jessica was a participant in the inaugural AEDP Essential Skills course in 2010 and has not looked back since! (more…)

Gabriela Pessoa-Mendes, BA

Gabriela is an AEDP certified clinical Psychologist and Supervisor. She has been dedicated to studying AEDP in Brazil since 2008, but it was through in-person courses in NY – Immersion (2013), ES1 (2016/ 2017) and Advanced Skills (2017/ 2018) – that she became even more delighted with the practice of the model. “Listening to Diana, it became clear to me that I was delighted beyond a model of therapy; it resonated with who I am in life.” Gabi brings an embodied AEDP presence to her work – a sense of safety, openness, curiosity, and genuine care to her clients and supervisees. Her expertise in working with trauma in psychotherapy, or doing supervision, shines through her focus on the bottom-up experience – privileging relational and somatic/emotional work.

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