Shari Eliot, LCSW

Shari is a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience, operating her private practice in New York City. Throughout her extensive career, Shari has specialized in providing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, as well as clinical supervision offering a safe and nurturing environment for clients and supervisees. Dedicated to advancing her skills and knowledge in the field, Shari is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Additionally, she holds certification as a psychoanalyst, enriching her therapeutic approach with a deep understanding of psychodynamic principles.

Shari’s journey with AEDP began in 2015, captivated by the transformative work presented by Diana Fosha at an AEDP Seminar. Instantly recognizing the profound impact of AEDP’s healing and non-pathologizing approach, Shari felt she had discovered her clinical home. Since then, she has been an active member of the AEDP community, assisting Immersion, Essential Skills and Advanced Skills courses. Additionally, In conjunction with AEDP Metro NYC, Shari formed an AEDP peer supervision group that has been meeting since 2018. (more…)

Eileen A Epstein, Phd, LCSW, LCSW-C, LCSW-R

Eileen is an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor. Coming into AEDP with a Certification in Psychoanalysis, she jumped into IMM in 2010.  She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey. She provides AEDP Therapy and Supervision via ZOOM. She conducts AEDP Supervision for individuals and groups. Supervision deepens learning, experience, skill building and camaraderie. Eileen has been a member of the weekly AEDP Research Group since its inception in 2017 under the guidance of Diana Fosha. Partaking in this group is not only skill-building in AEDP treatment, but in supervisory acumen  par excellence as well.
I welcome supervisees at every level of AEDP training. It is my honor and privilege to work with you.

Joanna M. Berrio Kipnis, LCSW

Joanna is a Colombian, multi-racial, licensed clinical social worker, with over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist. Joanna has an online practice, works with supervisees worldwide, leads supervision groups, with a special interest in leading BIPOC supervision groups, and sees clients located in New York and Colorado.  Joanna started her career as an activist in New York, and as a therapist has specialized as a complex trauma therapist working with refugees, immigrants, queer and trans communities, and other victims of crimes. Today she works mainly with people who hold healing spaces for others.

Joanna’s AEDP journey began in NYC over a decade ago; and she has come to respect, to love and to integrate AEDP’s principles in her professional and personal lives as a way of being with others, not just as a model. AEDP’s transformational framework is not just at the heart of her clinical work with clients and with supervisees, it’s also foundational in the anti-oppression work she does. (more…)

Simone Levey, Ph.D

Simone, is a registered Clinical Psychologist and she lives in Toronto, Canada. She is a certified AEDP supervisor and she currently offers group supervision virtually. In addition to her training in AEDP, Dr. Levey has many years of training and experience practicing Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (STDP), and she trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Dr. Levey received her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University. She brings almost two decades of experience working with children, adolescents, adults and families, working at various levels of the mental health system, including in emergency rooms, psychiatric inpatient and outpatient hospital settings, and in schools. Dr. Levey is the co-founder of RENNI in Toronto, Canada, which is a multidisciplinary clinic dedicated to the treatment and healing of mind and body. (more…)

Bob Yip Mang Sau

Bob Yip Mang Sau is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor based in Hong Kong. Bob has been a dedicated psychotherapist for over 45 years in the Chinese community with a wealth of experience in helping individuals, couples, and families as well as providing training and supervision to social workers, pastors and other helping professionals. Bob is also a Certified Counselor, an Approved Counseling Supervisor and fellow member recognized by The Hong Kong Professional Counseling Association.

Aside from his private practice, Bob was an Adjunct Professor at various Theological Seminaries in Hong Kong, where he taught courses on Attachment and Spirituality Formation. He also taught counseling courses at various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, and conducted training programs for different organizations over the years. Bob is passionate about sharing AEDP’s essences via his training workshops. (more…)

Kelly Prothero, LCSW

Kelly Prothero, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Portland, Oregon. After earning her graduate degree from Smith College School for Social Work, Kelly worked in community mental health settings in New York City.

After moving to the West Coast in 2011, Kelly was introduced to AEDP and became quickly drawn to the healing potential of the AEDP model. Kelly went on to become a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor under the mentorship and supervision of SueAnne Piliero, Jenna Osiason, Karen Pando-Mars and Jerry Lamagna.

Kelly has assisted in numerous Essential Skills and Core Training courses throughout the country. She has been instrumental in forming and developing Portland AEDP, a group committed to the development and growth of AEDP in Portland and surrounding areas. In addition to her clinical practice, Kelly brings over 20 years of yoga experience to her work. She is a certified yoga teacher and studied Yoga Nidra meditation extensively with psychologist, Dr. Richard Miller. It was her background in yoga that opened Kelly to the experiential and transformational healing aspects of AEDP.

Kelly brings warmth, humor and authenticity to her work as both an AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Her clinical interests include treating trauma and dissociation and using “intra-relational” and bold relational clinical methods to facilitate transformational

Monica Bradley, LMFT

Monica  is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor practicing in Berkeley, California. She offers individual AEDP supervision online to licensed psychotherapists in the form of Therapist-Focused Experiential Consultation.

Therapist-Focused Experiential Consultation brings the power of AEDP to psychotherapist training, utilizing present moment experience in the consultation to accelerate and deepen learning. Monica guides her consultees to lean into what’s already powerful in their work and build from there, following transformance to stay with the emergent edge of their learning.  Monica and her consultees unpack clinical moments, slow down to explore choice points, and make use of the affective and somatic experience of client, therapist, and consultant to integrate both top-down and bottom-up experience of the AEDP model. (more…)

Judy Silvan, LICSW, LCSW

Judy Silvan LICSW, LCSW, she/her is an early AEDP enthusiast and a licensed U.S. psychotherapist in Massachusetts and California. Judy is Certified as an AEDP Supervisor & Therapist, as well as in Bioenergetic Analysis and Mindfulness in Psychotherapy.  She’s been an Experiential Assistant in AEDP courses since 2010, and has treated over ten patients​ as part of the AEDP Research Project. Most of her research patients have presented with symptoms from serious complexities in their histories, many including sexual traumas​.  Her passion for practicing, supervising and teaching AEDP runs deep: She recently taught a five week AEDP seminar series to Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Interns, and another workshop to m​embers of AEDP Africa Regional Community​ in South Africa.

She has presented ​on the topic of AEDP and the treatment of sexual trauma in complex PTSD in several of Diana Fosha’s Immersion courses and seminars.  Judy continues her own clinical training in the area of Psychedelics to enhance emotional healing with AEDP, and in a Certification Program for Executive Coaching.

Emerging ways of un-doing oppression in racism, gender, family composition, neurodiversity and other under-celebrated human contingencies build Judy’s activist value base. Reach out to connect with Judy through her website: judysilvanpsychotherapy.com

Magdalena Bluhme, LCSW

Magdalena Bluhme, LCSW is a Licensed Psychotherapist and supervisor working in private practice in the center of Stockholm, Sweden. She is a Certified AEDP therapist and an AEDP supervisor. She also has a certification in APT (Affect Phobia Therapy) and In DBR (Deep Brain Reporienting). She works mainly with individuals suffering from dissociative disorders,
complex PTSD, early attachment trauma, developmental trauma and supervises groups of psychotherapists working in the same field.

Magdalena took her first training with Diana in Paris 2013 and continue with skill training in New York, arranged core training in Stockholm. She has assisted in numerous trainings both internationally and in Sweden.

Yuval Moses, LCSW-R

Yuval Moses, LCSW-R, is a Registered Clinical Social Worker in NY and a certified AEDP therapist and Supervisor. Yuval’s psychotherapy practice is based in NYC and he provides remote supervision and trainings nationally and internationally. Before founding his private practice and training program Yuval worked predominantly in the non-for-profit world.

After years of working in the foster care field, Yuval became a clinical supervisor at the Crime Victims Treatment Center where he specialized in the treatment of adults experiencing Dissociative Disorders and Complex PTSD, especially as these presentations relate to childhood sexual abuse and other traumatic childhood experiences. It was during his work at the Crime Victims Treatment Center that he encountered AEDP and it very quickly became his therapeutic home. (more…)