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). 

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Melissa Kehoe, MA, LPC, LCPC, LMHC

Melissa Kehoe, MA, LPC, LCPC, LMHC is a certified AEDP therapist, AEDP supervisor-in-training, and clinical supervisor with a private practice serving Washington, Kansas, and Missouri. She is deeply committed to helping adults navigate life’s challenges, cultivate emotional resilience, and create lasting change. Clients and supervisees alike find her to be a compassionate, skilled therapist who offers a safe, supportive, and collaborative space for healing, growth, and self-discovery.Melissa came to AEDP through her own healing process.  She is passionate about helping others find their true self.  Over the years, she has studied AEDP under the guidance of Lia Jones, Jenn Edlin, Kari Gleiser, and Dale Trimble.  Additionally, Melissa has assisted at AEDP Institute trainings as an Experiential Assistant.

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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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Location: Boston, MA, USA

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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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James Santos,MDiv, MA, MFT

James Santos is an AEDP Certified Therapist and a member of the AEDP DBEI committee. James Santos provides a passion and presence to promote diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion. James Santos has worked in many multicultural settings in downtown Lousiville, KY, and led trips internationally where he provided pastoral care and education, helping groups navigate new cultural and spiritual experiences.

James’s areas of competency and experience include being a practitioner, educator, and facilitator of diversity and inclusion in various contexts. In addition to his private practice work at Cornerstone Care, James serves as a corporate chaplain and life coach (more…)

Location: Lousiville, KY, USA

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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Location: Rome, Italy

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA

Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA, is a certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor in training. She has been a Lead Assistant for countless Immersions, Essential Skills, and Advanced Skills Modules. As a founding member of the Portland Oregon AEDP Steering Committee, she has hosted AEDP faculty lead workshops in Portland and Co-Lead a Portland-based Core Training. She was a copresenter in the Institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Deb is in private practice in Portland. She works with couples and individuals, specializing in relationships and sexuality, and complex trauma. As a certified yoga instructor, she incorporates mindfulness, breath, and movement into her work with patients. Deb has a master’s in Applied Behavioral Science from the Leadership Institute of Seattle. She is an IPI-certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and continues exploring the varieties of psychedelic therapies that integrate well with AEDP.  
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