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. 

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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Jason Trowbridge, MA, MFT

Jason Trowbridge, MA, MFT is an AEDP Certified Therapist.  Jason’s work has been based in attachment theory since 2007 when he began studying Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples treatment.  About ten years later, he began formally learning AEDP.  Jason specializes in Intra-Relational AEDP and avidly studies dissociative phenomena and different modalities for working with parts of self.  He has been involved in AEDP research and assists at AEDP training events.  Increasingly, he has been focused on the interface between AEDP and spiritual/religious practice.

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