Ben Medley, LCSW

Ben Medley, LCSW is an AEDP senior faculty member and has taught AEDP internationally with the AEDP Institute, the National Institute of Psychotherapy, the Cape Cod Institute, NASW, and in many other mental health organizations and clinical practices. In addition to teaching, he enjoys supervising AEDP clinicians individually and in groups. Ben has a private practice in New York City and specializes in working with the LGBTQ+ community. He earned his degree in Clinical Social Work with the NYU Silver School of Social Work. 

His paper “Recovering the True Self: Affirmative Therapy, Attachment and AEDP in Psychotherapy with Gay Men” is published in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and he has written a chapter on using portrayals to process core affective experience in Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (APA). Most recently, Ben wrote the chapter “AEDP: A model of change and transformation” in Experiential Therapies for the Treatment of Trauma (Routledge) and is preparing the manuscript “Liberating the Core Self: Using the Triangle of Social Experience to Transform Internalized Oppression with AEDP”.

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Gil Tunnell, PhD

Gil is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. He is Faculty Emirita and a founding Faculty member of the AEDP Institute and now serves as Consulting Editor for Transformance: The AEDP Journal. With Jenna Osiason, he wrote “Historical Context: AEDP’s Place in the World of Psychotherapy,” Undoing Aloneness & the Transformance of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0, APA Books, 2021. Dr. Tunnell is co-author with David Greenan of Couple Therapy with Gay Men (Guilford, 2002), and has presented and published widely on working with gay men, most recently, “Unequivocal affirmation” of True Self in 16-session AEDP with Gay Men: Using Relational Metaprocessing to Increase Receptive Affective Capacity, Transformance Journal, 2023, 11 (1). His special interest is applying AEDP to couple therapy. (more…)

Kate Halliday, LCSW

Kate Halliday, LCSW, is Senior Faculty, AEDP Institute from Ithaca, New York.

Throughout Kate’s nearly 30 years as a psychotherapist, She has always been better at noticing the ways her clients are remarkable, resilient, and lovable than theorizing about the ways they are wounded.

Kate has always been drawn to images, representations, and experiences of transformation. Music, poetry, literature, the natural world, and emotional relationships have always been her education. When Kate started learning to be a teacher of young children (in her first career she worked for Head Start and in elementary schools), and then to be a therapist, it was the magic of witnessing change and growth in other human beings that enlivened the experience for her. In psychotherapy, this led Kate to study Family Systems Theory and Narrative Therapy, then EMDR, and finally AEDP. (more…)

Jennifer Edlin, MFT

Jennifer Edlin, MFT  is a psychotherapist in private practice in Oakland, California, and is a Senior faculty member of AEDP™ Institute.  Jenn received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a JD/MBA degree from New York University and an MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. From the moment she attended her first AEDP Immersion Course, Jenn was taken by AEDP and the permission to be authentic and to use the therapist’s whole self in service of clients’ healing and transformation.

Jenn is developing AEDP theory and clinical interventions to use with dysregulated and underregulated clients, and has presented her work in 2019 in Boston, Portland and the Denver Immersion course.  In the years since she joined the AEDP Institute Faculty Jenn has been a Co-Director of the AEDP research project, (more…)

Natasha Prenn, LCSW

Natasha Prenn, LCSW, senior faculty member. Natasha has dedicated her career to translating AEDP® theory into clear, actionable steps and refining the language used in interventions. With a deep commitment to making AEDP® training accessible and practical, Natasha pioneered both the AEDP® Essential and Advanced Skills Courses. 

Natasha’s dedication to training therapists led to her co-authoring Supervision Essentials for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy with Diana Fosha. Her latest book, Deliberate Practice in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, co-authored with Hanna Levenson (APA June 2025), focuses on the systematic practice of AEDP skills and interventions.

Natasha offers coaching and psychotherapy to individuals and couples and AEDP® supervision for therapists. She is a founding editor, alongside Kari Gleiser, of Transformance: The AEDP Journal. Some of her articles and book chapters are available on the AEDP® website.

 

Eileen M. Russell, PhD

Eileen M. Russell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a founding faculty member of the AEDP Institute. She began studying and training in AEDP in 1996 with Drs. Diana Fosha and Jenna Osiason. Dr. Russell has been an adjunct faculty member at NYU Medical/ Bellevue Hospital Center where she completed her internship training and later worked as a senior psychologist with individuals struggling with addiction and psychiatric diagnoses. She is currently also on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) Integrative Trauma Program. Her passion is AEDP, which she has taught to individuals and groups since 2004 nationally and internationally. She combines a warm and gentle clinical style with a probing and articulate interest in theory to bring out the depths of the AEDP approach. In addition to her practice with patients and consultees, Eileen enjoys expanding clinical and theoretical ideas through writing. She published the second professional book on AEDP called, Restoring Resilience: Discovering your Clients’ Capacity for Healing (W.W. Norton & Co., June 2015). She co-authored a paper with Diana Fosha, entitled, “Transformational affects and core state in AEDP” (2008). More recently she has been exploring the centrality of the sense of agency to healing and change in a chapter in Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing (APA, 2021).

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Barbara J. Suter, PhD

Barbara J. Suter has been a clinical psychologist for over 40 years, practicing psychodynamically and experientially oriented work with individuals–child, adolescent, adult–and with couples, families, communities, schools and other agencies.  She is involved in training both new and experienced therapists.

A lifetime of a rich, rewarding experience helping people has culminated in experiential work.  Through AEDP, and its holistic, healing, helpful approach, Dr. Suter has found a way to integrate many decades of previously disparate experiences, finding that AEDP uniquely lends itself to therapy, supervision and front line helping people in their communities and families.

After AEDP training in the early 2000’s she became deeply interested in understanding and working with the body in psychotherapy and trained for three years with Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing approach to become a practitioner. She has found combining AEDP and SE particularly useful with those suffering from trauma, reeling from life and unable to find help despite a long time of seeking help, healing and change. Dr Suter has taught and supervised in (1) George Washington University PsyD program (2) The Washington School of Psychiatry Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy program and their Supervision program, (3) A Clinical PhD Social Work program in Washington, DC. and (4) consulted with both public and private schools in the Washington, DC area and (4) a domestic violence program training counselors to do psychotherapy with their clients.  She maintained a private practice in Washington, DC until covid and now works remotely via zoom from Virginia. She is licensed as a clinical psychologist in DC, Maryland, Virginia and Vermont

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Danny Yeung, MD, CCFP, MDPAC(C), FCFP

Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute and Chair of International Development, Danny Yeung is a trainer and supervisor of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) for post-graduate mental health professionals in Hong Kong, China, South Korea, United States and Canada. An Assistant Professor with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, he was personally honored, for his local and global AEDP teaching projects, with the Joel Sadavoy Community Mental Health Award for 2011, Peter R. Newman Humanitarian Award for 2013, and a two time recipient of Award of Excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for 2012 and 2022.

Danny is the author of The Instinct to Heal: Practicing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, the first original AEDP book to published 2023 in China. He is a contributor of a chapter titled What Went Right: What Happens in the Brain During AEDP’s Metatherapeutic Processing, in the award winning book Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 and has served as the Translation Reviewer for the Chinese version of The Transforming Power of Affect and Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0. 

Danny is a contributor of a chapter titled The Art of Non-Doing and Self-Transformation of Things, in Chinese Culture and Psychotherapy and is regarded as having made an epoch defining contribution to integrating psychotherapy with Chinese culture.  He is also the lead author of The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, arguably one of the original trauma treatment manual published in Chinese. He coauthored Portrait of the Soul, a study of nine personality styles, currently in its 6 th edition. Together with Dr. Diana Fosha, he also coauthored a chapter in the Casebook of Psychotherapy Integration, published by American Psychological Association. 

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Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Karen is a psychotherapist in San Rafael, California, and Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute. She was irresistibly drawn to AEDP in 2005 and captivated by the depth and breadth of this transformational model. She immersed herself in training and consultation with Dr. Fosha and three years of core training with Dr. Frederick. Ms. Pando-Mars is one of the founders of AEDP West and chaired the AEDP Institute Education Committee from 2011-2018.  Since 2020, Ms. Pando-Mars is a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion Committee) and in 2022, she became a consultant to the Vision Collective.

Ms. Pando-Mars’ passionate interest in what cultivates deep connection between Self and Other has been furthered by attachment theory and related neuroscience. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal relational trauma.

Ms. Pando-Mars background in somatic and experiential therapies, including Focusing, Biofeedback, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray-Worldplay, EMDR, and Authentic Movement, influence and are woven throughout her work. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course.

She teaches AEDP across the United States and internationally.  Her publication “Tailoring AEDP interventions to attachment style,” 2016 Transformance Journal, 6 (2) is the basis for the book, Tailoring Treatment to attachment patterns: Healing trauma in relationship, co-authored with Diana Fosha, to be published March 2025 by Norton & Co., now available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

Yuko Hanakawa, PhD

Yuko Hanakawa, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City who was “raised” by AEDP from the very beginning of her career. She met Dr. Diana Fosha as a doctoral student at Adelphi University and has been deeply engaged with AEDP’s transformative healing process ever since, focusing particularly on body-mind connection, positive emotions, and moment-to-moment tracking.

Her contributions to the field include a chapter on moment-to-moment tracking in “Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0” (2021) and a clinical article on therapist-patient gratitude published in the AEDP Transformance Journal (2011). She has published extensively in Japanese, including her first AEDP book, “Transforming Your Counseling Skills: A Practical Method to Heal Emotions” (2020) and several professional papers. 

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