James McCracken, MSW, LCSW

“My motto is “Life is better in the shelter of each other… We are designed for it,” and I practice this in as many roles as I can, including as a supervisor: It is my intention to provide a safe and secure experience for therapists to learn and practice.  Located in Durham, North Carolina, I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, in practice for over 20 years (in both public and private practice settings), and am now the co-founder and Clinical Director of a group practice (“North Carolina Therapy Professionals, PLLC”) where I have been passionate about helping therapists be their best selves with and for their patients and each other. 

In addition to being an AEDP Supervisor-in-Training, I am a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Supervisor (all modalities), and love helping clinicians learn how to harness the healing potentials within and for our clients, relationships, and ourselves while still being themselves.  AEDP gives us a profound way to know and understand psychotherapy, and it is always a privilege and honor to help therapists learn and practice this powerful model.”

Melissa Bannerot, LCSW

Melissa is an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Training. 

She has been working in private practice in Colorado Springs since 2011.  She was introduced to AEDP in 2018 at a lunch and learn in Denver and was completely taken in by the presence of the AEDP clinicians so much so that she immediately signed up for Immersion. 

Melissa has been an Experiential Assistant in numerous Essential Skills trainings as well as Immersion. 

Melissa is passionate about helping her clients become more emotionally connected with themselves and others in their lives. She loves how AEDP supervision allows for the same flourishing within the therapist – as the AEDP patient – because of how they are witnessed by their supervisor and fellow colleagues after showing tape and hearing how they are experienced as therapist.  Melissa is passionate about how much our “use of self” in therapy and supervision create not only a secure attachment, but also a channel for growth and transformation.

Mariana Barstad, PhD

Mariana Barstad holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and specializes in Health Psychology and Psycho-Oncology. As a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor-in-training, Mari focuses on helping individuals navigate their emotional experiences while contributing to the advancement of the field through ongoing research and professional development.

Jamie Bachman, LCSW

Jamie is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor-in-Training, Certified EFT Therapist and Supervisor. He has been in clinical practice for more than 20 years, and has provided clinical supervision for 18 years. He serves individuals, couples and families through his online private practice. Having completed a Masters in Education from NYU as well as his MSW from Smith College, Jamie really loves focusing on how people learn to become skillful psychotherapists. He completed a Deliberate Practice Supervision Residency with Tony Rousmaniere and Alex Vaz, and has worked with deliberate practice exercises in AEDP and EFT supervision. He facilitates supervision groups, and has taught a number of courses over the past 15 years, including courses on Attachment Theory and Trauma. 

Jamie has served on the adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley’s MSW program, where he taught Family Therapy and Theory in Practice courses, and also on the faculty of the Psychotherapy Institute’s (TPI) Supervision Studies Program. In addition, he was a supervisor for TPI’s Post-Graduate Training Program. Jamie is a former Clinical Supervisor and Manager at Pathways Hospice, where he worked for twelve years. He also has served on the Diversity Committee of the International Center for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT). 

Shelley Carr

Shelley is a psychotherapist in private practice in Wiltshire, UK.  She has 15 years experience including 11 years practicing, teaching and supervising Equine Facilitated Therapy, with both individuals and groups.  In 2013 Shelley completed a Post Graduate Diploma in working with PTSD and Complex Trauma and has since focussed on working with clients with developmental trauma.  She is particularly passionate about offering a safe and affirmative space to the LGBTQIA community. After seeing Diana talk at a conference in 2017, she immediately signed up for the Immersion training and has been hooked ever since and became an AEDP certified therapist in February 2023.  As a supervisor, she enjoys building connection and safety so the supervisee can explore and grow their individual expression of AEDP.

Richard Somerset

Richard first learned of AEDP in 2011 and attended an introductory course led by Dr. Diana Fosha and Ben Lipton in Vancouver, BC. Their expert training and videos were incredibly moving, resonating deeply with Richard. In one session, Dale Trimble spoke with such passion, conviction, and emotion, rarely shown by men which allowed Richard to fully be himself, not only in those sessions but in the years since. Meeting Dale remains one of Richard’s most fortunate personal and professional experiences.

For the past eight years, Richard has provided supervision to students in their internships and licensed therapists for ongoing support. This work is very rewarding, witnessing therapists grow and enhance their confidence and professional skills. He was approached years ago to be an EA for the Essential Skills courses, a role he truly loves and maintains a regular schedule supporting the AEDP community by being an Experiential Assistant in Essential Skills and Advanced Skills courses. Richard is excited to have been accepted into the AEDP Supervisor in Training program and look forward to supporting therapists in their AEDP journey and certification.

Richard is a life-long learner with education both within Canada and abroad. He has attained distinctions as a Certified AEDP Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified Trauma Therapist, Addictions Counsellor, and Couples Counsellor and looks forward to supporting you in your journey.

You can learn more about Richard at www.therippleffect.ca and to book a supervisor session, please contact him at richard@therippleffect.ca.

Emily Bilbao, LCSW

Emily is a Certified AEDP Therapist and is in the process of becoming a Certified AEDP Supervisor. She received her Master’s degree from Smith College School for Social Work in 2004 and has been practicing as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since.

Much of her work is focused on Queer and non-binary Individuals and couples. She is also a certified Psilocybin Facilitator in Oregon and is a Co-Founder of the Institutes AEDP & Psychedelics Committee. She teaches seminars for the AEDP Institute and has presented her work at Immersion. She is a research therapist with AEDP’s 16 Session Research Project. She a member of the Portland AEDP Steering Committee and coordinates in person training opportunities and events locally.

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Mark Green, MD

Mark is a psychiatrist – originally from London, now in Boston – specialising in addictions and psychedelic therapies. After residency and fellowships at Cornell, he conducted neurobiology research in stress at Rockefeller University and then was a harm reductionist addictions specialist and psychopharmacologist, running programs big and small (from state-wide to boutique dual disorders programs ). He has been faculty at Harvard, Cornell and Vermont and trained at every level in evidence based therapies and psychedelic assisted therapies, and more. He has lectured nationally in these areas as well as AEDP Institute (AEDP and ketamine) and published on AEDP and addictions in the Transformance journal. 

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Michelle Kehn, PhD, ABPP

Michelle is a Certified AEDP therapist and is in the process of becoming a Certified AEDP Supervisor. She is based in Denver, CO, working as a full-time psychologist at the VA Rocky Mountain Medical Center in Aurora. In addition, she has a small private practice devoted primarily to older adults and healthcare workers. Her journey to AEDP began while she was still in graduate school in NYC in 2007 when she was introduced to AEDP surreptitiously while working on a research project at a public hospital. She was hooked, and although taking a longer road, has continued to make her way through the AEDP journey throughout her career.

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Cristina Mendonça, Clinical Psychologist

Cristina Mendonça, is a clinical psychologist and an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Training. She has a vast international private practice from Rio de Janeiro to Rome, where she now lives. 

After completing the Immersion course in 2013, Cristina was absolutely taken by the AEDP model and since then has been deeply engaged in making it procedural. She has been a teaching assistant / experiential assistant at many, many in-person trainings held in Rio, London and New York as well as in many online trainings. Since 2021 Cristina has been Lead Assistant in Institute- sponsored Immersion, Essential Skills (many!) and Advanced Skills online courses; and she is very much on track to becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor. 

AEDP has “undone her therapist’s self aloneness” and changed Cristina’s professional life’s trajectory for good. 

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