Elley Newton, LCSW-R

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.

Tina Leniuk-Wright, MA

Julie Clay

Julie Clay is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified AEDP therapist, and supervisor in training with a private practice in Virginia. As a life long learner, she returned to graduate school as a midlife career changer. Rooted in Internal Family Systems, she came to AEDP to add additional layers of nuance, complexity and effectiveness to her work with clients. She is particularly drawn to the consultation / supervision model in AEDP of “Rigor without Shame” and has assisted in many Essential Skills and Advanced Skills Modules. Julie deeply appreciates the way a long term supervision relationship both securely held her and rigorously challenged her to hone her skills.

As she sets sail on her own journey to become a certified supervisor – she is excited to explore her growth edges with curiosity and compassion and with appreciation for being “In it together.”

Leah Subar, MSc

Hello! I’m Leah, a Denver native who’s been living in Israel for over 35 years. I work especially with adult women in Torah-observant communities, offering therapy both in person and via Zoom. I hold space with a presence that is compassionate, attuned, and grounded.

Before discovering AEDP, I trained in dance/movement psychotherapy, which continues to inform my sensitivity to somatic cues and the wisdom of the body. Since 2021, I’ve participated in the AEDP 16-session research network, contributing to the growing body of research on transformational healing.

I’m currently pursuing doctoral studies focused on moments of meeting and the implicit, right-brain-to-right-brain messages that surround their unfolding. I’m drawn to those subtle, often unspoken exchanges that foster safety and intersubjective delight.

This sensibility also shapes my clinical work, grounded in moment-to-moment tracking of somatic experience and emotional depth. Years of mothering—nine children and many grandchildren—have formed in me a capacity to stay close, hold complexity, and meet people where they are with warmth and strength.

In supervision, I aim to support therapists in deepening their AEDP practice through presence, attuned pacing, and shared discovery.

So Yeon (Yeony) Kim

So Yeon (Yeony) Kim is a licensed psychotherapist and Korean national who earned AEDP certification in May 2023. She holds a doctoral degree in psychotherapy and has served as a university professor. Currently, she is an adjunct professor at World Cyber University and the director of Yeon Psychological Counseling Center in Korea.

In addition to her work in AEDP, Dr. Kim is a nationally certified counseling psychologist and supervisor in Korea. She is also a certified Psychodrama Director and Art Therapist. She has completed all official training in both EMDR and EFT and actively practices as an EMDR and EFT therapist.

Dr. Kim is about to begin the certification track to become an AEDP Supervisor-in-Training. AEDP has been a source of profound transformation for her—both professionally and personally. Deeply influenced by the spirit of AEDP, she is committed to supporting the healing of others through this transformative model.

Karen Tantillo, DSW, LCSW

Karen is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training in New York City. She has been in clinical practice for over 25 years working with both individuals and couples/relationships. She is passionate about AEDP to deepen relationship work with couples who have significant trauma histories, using her advanced training and experience in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).

Karen has provided clinical supervision for most of her career, beginning in her early years as a psychiatric social worker in several NYC hospitals and later as a community mental health therapist in  Atlanta, Georgia and Greenville, SC. Karen received her Masters in Social Work (MSW) from NYU and most recently earned a Doctorate in clinical social worker from UPenn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. The doctoral program brought focus on clinical supervision, AEDP qualitative research/writing and teaching. She completed her dissertation on “Undoing Aloneness in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How AEDP Clinicians Have Experienced the Shift to Telehealth and the Impact on the Therapeutic Relationship” in 2022.

She is excited to provide clinical supervision and hold space for deliberate practice in experientially learning and growing in this deeply transformative model. Her style is warm, relational and collaborative. She practices both in-person and online in NYC and online Zoom in Georgia and South Carolina, where she is also licensed. She is the proud mother of three young adult children and a supportive partner in her relationship. 

Noam Kollet Levin 

I’m Noam Kollet Levin, MA, a Rehabilitation Psychologist and Certified AEDP Therapist in Israel, currently in the process of becoming a Certified Supervisor. I have been practicing psychotherapy since 2008, working with clients facing trauma, life crossroads, and relational challenges. My clinical focus also includes dyadic work with parents and children in the context of trauma.

I was first introduced to AEDP in 2016 through experiential training in Israel, and I was deeply moved by its relational and embodied approach. Since then, AEDP has become both a professional home and a personal path of growth. I have also had the privilege of serving as an Experiential Assistant in AEDP Institute courses, where I continue to learn and share in the spirit of togetherness and undoing aloneness.

In my clinical and supervisory work, I strive to bring presence, courage, and kindness—creating a safe space where pain can be met, transformation can unfold, and clients and supervisees alike can connect more fully with themselves and with others.

Gitit Jacobson-Ziv

Gitit Jacobson-Ziv, M.A., is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified supervisor in Israel, and certified AEDP psychotherapist. In her private practice, Gitit works with adults and adolescents, specializing in at-risk youth and people with trauma. For the last 20 years, She was the clinical director at the ‘Beit-Elazraki Home’, a boarding school for at-risk children and adolescents that aims to fully rehabilitate its residents. She supervised the clinical and educational staff and was in charge of treatment planning for the boarding school children. Years of working with attachment trauma and the challenges of helping them prompted her to continually learn, and AEDP was a perfect fit for her work.    She is a licensed CBT therapist and has training in Mindfulness, Biofeedback, EFT, and EFCT. 

Charlotte Lee

Charlotte Lee is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training, as well as a Registered Social Worker (RSW) licensed in Ontario, Canada. She holds a Master of Social Sciences in Counselling from the City University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Social Science in Social Work from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Additionally, she has completed training in teaching children with special education needs (SEN), advanced transformative couple therapy, focusing, children focusing, play therapy, NLP, Enneagram, and MBTI.

Her clinical practice encompasses a wide range of therapeutic areas including anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, parenting and family dynamics, interpersonal relationships, life transitions, and personal development. She provides services to clients of all ages and facilitates support groups for caregivers and parents to strengthen emotional well-being.

With over 30 years of professional experience, Charlotte has worked extensively with SEN children, mainstream students, and parents in Hong Kong. Since obtaining her AEDP certification in 2022, she has developed and personally delivered a parenting course that integrates AEDP principles with her broad clinical expertise and life experience. The course focuses on fostering a sense of security, love, and emotional strength, helping families manage emotions, resolve conflicts, and grow with peace. 

To promote AEDP to the community, Charlotte integrates AEDP techniques for cultivating a sense of safety and emotional transformation into all her teachings. She has collaborated with many organizations in both Hong Kong and Canada, including schools, churches, and mental health centers. She also conducts workshops and training sessions on parenting, emotional management, support for parents with SEN children, couple communication, personality frameworks such as MBTI and Enneagram, mindfulness, and relational healing.