Laura Montgomery, MSW RSW

My purpose is to create the space for you to uncover your core self, what is authentic and right to you. I help my clients have on-going access to this core place in the midst of the ups and downs of life and within their relationships. From this, they are guided to live aligned with their values and find a connection to their inner world. I work from a trauma-informed, somatic and experiential lens for sustained change.

I am a parent and intimate with the beauty and challenges of being present and steadfast in the midst of family life. Parenting is a full-time commitment. It is filled with joys as well as emotional upheavals (ok, let’s call them tantrums – our own and those of our children). I know the soul opening work of parenting spirited children. I help my clients get to the heart of parenting and family challenges and emerge with resilience and greater connection.

My Background:

I obtained my Masters in Social Work from the University of British Columbia in 2008. My practice is based in attachment theory, neuroscience, and body and emotion -focused experiential approaches. I have received post-graduate training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Certification in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Developmental Psychology, and Synergetic Play Therapy. I have had a spiritual and meditation practice for the last twenty years.

My Therapeutic Approach:

My work is based on a relationship of trust, safety, and warmth with whom I work. At times the work of therapy is challenging and it may include vulnerable terrain. I believe the drive toward growth and healing is always present within each of us and that counselling helps this innate drive to emerge. Therapy acts as a positive space, helping us to regain our resilience and ability to shine in our own unique way.

My work is rooted in the intersection the larger spiritual context of life and experiential body-based work.

I welcome people who are LGBTQ/2S and deeply value the diversity of human experience and expression.

I am registered with the Social Work Colleges to work online in both British Columbia and Ontario.

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Yael Sadan, LCSW 

Yael  is a Certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor-in-training.  She has a private practice in Midtown Manhattan and has been practicing for over 20 years.  Since her introduction to AEDP in 2010, Yael has assisted in numerous AEDP training courses.  Yael describes her introduction to AEDP as finally finding a therapeutic home. She states “I drank the koolaid 10 years ago and I still feel like I am drinking it”  Prior to becoming immersed in AEDP, Yael was part of the Ackerman Institute for the Family where she taught classes;. She was also part of the Eikenberg Institute which centered on multicultural therapy and social justice in the therapy room. She brings both of these lenses in her AEDP work.  Yael has experienced the transformational power of the model both personally and professionally.  She  is honored to be facilitating other peoples journey through AEDP. 

Location: New York, New York, USA

Dina Genis, LCSW

Dina Genis is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor in Training. graduate of the University of Toronto’s MSW program, she is also a Certified Short-Term Psychotherapist and Supervisor in Israel, an Art Therapist, and a Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist. Dina offers both in-person and online therapy for adults and couples and leads supervision groups both independently and within the Short-Term Psychotherapy Program at Bar Ilan University.

​Dina first attended the AEDP Immersion course in 2016, where she felt she had finally found a clinical “home.” Since then, she has been deeply involved in the community, assisting in Immersion and ES1 courses, as well a teaching and presenting at various AEDP workshops in Israel. Often described as an “AEDPer at heart,” Dina is passionate about guiding others on their AEDP journey. She is dedicated to helping clinicians refine their skills and deepen their understanding of the approach within a warm and growth-promoting environment.

Location: Israel

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Elley Newton,  LCSW-R, AEDP Certified Therapist

Hi!  I’m Elley, an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor-In-Training. I’ve been a member of the Experiential Assistant team since 2023 and am a member of the AEDP Finger Lakes community. I maintain a private practice in rural upstate New York near the Finger Lakes with primary areas of focus being adolescent and emerging adult mental health, as well as working with complex trauma across the life span. I also enjoy providing therapy for other therapists. 

 I consider my supervision style to be warm, authentic, encouraging, playful, curious, and to have a strong relational focus. I really enjoy helping supervisees build confidence in themselves as AEDP clinicians. I love to hold right brain attunement and presence while nerding out left-brain style about AEDP theory.  Whether supervisees are just starting their AEDP journey or moving towards certification, I feel enlivened helping support that particular layer of learning that we can do together and enjoy tailoring supervision to meet the specific needs of clinicians’ current growing edges. 

Other areas that I have enjoyed supporting clinician learning have included presenting for the AEDP Institute’s Clinician’s Corner on Relational Healing in Emerging Adulthood and teaching as an adjunct in the Masters of Social Work program at Keuka College, where I delight in sneaking in the spirit of AEDP into the curriculum. 

When not engaged in my therapy and supervision work, you can likely find me enjoying slow, quiet moments through tending to my little flock of chickens, gardening, drawing birds, and embroidering. 

Location: New York, USA

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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.”

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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.

more about me: www.linkedin.com/in/leahsubar

Location: Israel

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 those who have significant and complex relational trauma histories and is also Certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT).

Karen has provided clinical supervision throughout most of her career, beginning in her early years as an inpatient/outpatient psychiatric social worker in several NYC hospitals and later as a community mental health therapist in both 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 forever a supportive partner in her relationship. 

Location: New York, New York, USA