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. 

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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. 

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Kristina Rassidaki, MA

Kristina is a certified AEDP therapist based in Athens, Greece. She holds a degree in Psychology and began her career as a Person-Centered Therapist in the late 1990s. While studying Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples, she discovered AEDP and
embarked on her training in 2017.

In addition to her private practice in Athens, Kristina serves on the faculty of Play Therapy Greece and works as a parenting and teacher advisor and trainer. She is the creator of the 3Step Method, now also taught at university level, which equips parents and educators with effective strategies for managing challenging situations with children of all ages. A prolific author, Kristina has published five books for parents, educators and students with one of Greece’s leading publishers. She is deeply passionate about AEDP, having experienced firsthand its transformative power in ways no other therapy had before. As the first certified AEDP therapist in Greece, she hopes to
introduce this approach to the professional community in Athens. Kristina’s studies and career have taken her across Europe, and she is bilingual in English and Greek, with proficiency in French.

Luiza Neumayer, MA (Psych)

Hello and welcome! I am Luiza and I work with individuals and couples in Central London, UK. My initial psychotherapy training was in Jungian analytical psychology in 2010 back home, in Romania. Due to some unfortunate personal circumstances, I relocated to the UK in December 2017. My personal and professional life completely changed after meeting Diana and attending the Immersion held in London in 2018. I then understood what was missing in my therapy practice – making the implicit explicit, the explicit relational and the relational transformational. I fell in love with AEDP from the “get-go”, getting certified in 2021. Alongside AEDP, I trained in other experiential, somatic and emotionally -focused therapeutic modalities such as: AB-ISTDP, EFIT, IFS, EFT for couples, as well as EMDR and DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting).

My essential mode of supervision is relational, integrative and experiential, inviting supervisees into a safe, creative space where experiential learning can emerge. The supervisory space is a co-created space, encouraging collaboration, dialogue, curiosity and diversity. My aim is to foster each supervisee’s individual and unique ways of thinking and being with their clients, supporting them develop a clear theoretical understanding with practical skills and experiential learning. I value authenticity, vulnerability, openness, not-knowing, curiosity and I feel inspired to live from an approach to growth. I also have a spiritual practice which nurtures my personal and professional life and I feel deeply dedicated to support my supervisees in deepening their theoretical knowledge and embodied felt sense of AEDP.

Avi Klein

Hi there. I’m Avi—a lifelong New Yorker and father of three. I’m an AEDP-certified psychotherapist, supervisor-in-training, and the owner and clinical director of Downtown Somatic Therapy in New York City. I’ve been practicing for over 15 years and was lucky enough to join the AEDP community at an early stage in my career. My personal practice has focused on working with individuals and couples, particularly addressing issues related to masculinity and its impact on men’s relationships to themselves and others. I’m drawn to experiential, emotionally-focused, and somatic approaches, and in addition to AEDP, I have advanced training in Somatic Experiencing, PACT, and EFT, among other modalities.

My supervision style is warm, curious, and collaborative, emphasizing authentic presence and relational safety while gently encouraging supervisees and clients to step slightly outside their comfort zones. I strive to balance helping my supervisees develop a clear theoretical understanding with practical skills and experiential learning.

In addition to my clinical practice, I’ve contributed writings to publications such as The New York Times and Esquire and previously co-hosted “Hey Man – The Advice Podcast for Men.” As a therapist and thinker, I enjoy the challenge of communicating complex ideas in ways the public can understand, and I’m particularly interested in helping therapy-ambivalent individuals feel comfortable enough to try therapy. I deeply value authenticity, vulnerability, and an active, evolving, open-ended approach to growth—qualities I strive to nurture in my supervisees as they deepen their AEDP practice.

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Jessie Chan

Jessie is a certified AEDP Therapist and an AEDP supervisor-in-training. She is also a certified TIFI Focusing Trainer, Certified HKPCA Counsellor, and NCDA Certified Career Service Provider. Jessie expresses deep gratitude and feels honored to be a member of the AEDP community. She developed a strong passion in AEDP and devoted much of her time and efforts to learn and serve in the AEDP Chinese Community.  With 20 years of extensive counseling experience, she specializes in working with adolescents, university students, and parents, offering professional support in both university settings and private practice in Hong Kong.

Jessie holds a Master of Social Science(Counseling) from the University of Hong Kong. Since discovering AEDP and Focusing, she has dedicated herself to helping individuals reconnect with their authentic selves in a safe environment. Her work facilitates healing from trauma and fosters the rebuilding of inner relationships. This transformative process has inspired her to integrate Focusing and AEDP methodologies into her practice.

In recent years, Jessie has focused on equipping therapists, social workers, and counselors with these valuable techniques, with the aim of benefiting both themselves and those they serve.