Matt Fried

Matt is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor who holds a special interest in moment-to-moment tracking, verbal and non-verbal communication, relationship dynamics, and portrayal work. He has led AEDP supervision groups and presented AEDP in various therapy training settings, including the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Mid-Hudson Chapter of the NY State Society for Clinical Social Work.

In private practice in Manhattan and Delaware County, NY, Matt works with individuals, groups, and couples while supervising therapists learning AEDP. He endeavors to teach his supervisees patience, self-awareness, self-acceptance, relationship dynamics, working with the body, and the recognition and validation of transformational states. Matt loves supervising therapists and helping them grow.
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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…)

Location: New York, New York, USA

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…)

Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW

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Hilary is author of the international award-winning self-help book on emotions, AEDP, and the Change Triangle, It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect To Your Authentic Self (Random House). She is also the co-author of the award-winning parenting book on emotions, Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive (Alcove Press/PRH). She received her B.A. in biochemistry from Wesleyan University, a DDS from Columbia University, and an MSW from Fordham University,

Hilary is a certified psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor. Hilary has published articles in The New York Times, TIME, NPR, the Psychotherapy Networker, Psychology Today, and Oprah. Her Change Triangle blog is read worldwide.

Hilary has been involved in the AEDP community since 2004. She first heard Diana Fosha present at a conference on Affect Regulation in 2004. Other major influences were AEDP Faculty members Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Eileen Russell, PhD, and Natasha Prenn, LCSW with whom she attended the 2004 AEDP Immersion Course. Hilary received her AEDP Certification in 2010. She gradually built her practice and continued her education at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy where she earned a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2008. Hilary also enjoyed being the Mental Health Consultant for the television series MadMen.

Available for case consultations only, not for individual ongoing supervision.

Find FREE resources on emotions here: https://www.hilaryjacobshendel.com/

Location: New York, New York, USA

Annika Medbo, Licensed Psychotherapist

Annika Medbo is a faculty member of AEDP Institute. She is a Licensed Psychotherapist and Licensed Physiotherapist in private practice in Stockholm, Sweden.

She is one of the founders of the Swedish AEDP Community and has played a key role in spreading and developing AEDP in Western Europe, particularly in Scandinavia. Together with Anna Christina Sundgren, she continuously arranges and teaches Core Training in Sweden, Norway and online. In addition to teaching Core Training, she is an appreciated teacher in the Institute’s Essential Skills courses.

Annika has always been deeply interested in exploring and expanding her understanding of the natural, innate forces that drive growth and healing—both within the individual and in the profound interactions between people. In AEDP, she found a model and framework that allowed her to cultivate this passion and eventually begin structuring her discoveries through her clinical work with patients.

Through this work, a particular interest in working with the deepest attachment traumas has emerged—specifically in addressing various forms of profound neglect. Drawing on infant research, she integrates insights both to understand the phenomena that emerge in the therapeutic process and to deepen her comprehension of early attachment formation.

Building on this evolving understanding, Annika has refined her AEDP approach and skills to better meet patients’ needs at this level of trauma work. Her commitment to advancing the AEDP model is reflected in her recent article, Finding, Forming, and Transforming the Self: A Journey From No Self to Core Self, published inTransformance, the AEDP Journal, volume 13

Catherine Wong, RSW

Catherine Wong, RSW, is a certified family therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice with over 26 years counseling experience working with individuals, families, couples and children and 13 years supervision experience offering both individual
and group supervision for clinicians and social workers. Catherine is also a Clinical Supervisor in the Social Work Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her clinical background includes training in Moment by Moment Reconnecting
Marital & Family Therapy, Satir Model, Structural Family Therapy, Bowen Family Therapy, Play Therapy, Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy, Hypnotherapy , EMDR and Somatic Experiencing. Her curiosity to understand how clinicians, using a co-
created therapeutic relationship as a safe and secure base, can work with emotional experience experientially toward healing and transformation is what led her to AEDP. (more…)

Penelope Andrade, LCSW

Penelope is an AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor and author of Emotional Medicine Rx: Cry when you’re sad, Stop when you’re done, Feel good fast with over 40 years of experience in San Diego, CA and on Zoom. Penelope found AEDP in 2010 and knew it would be her forever therapeutic home when she discovered how elegantly AEDP integrated her decades long commitment to body-mind-spirit-relational healing and mindfulness. Of the many aspects of AEDP she treasures: being with clients in the embodied present moment, undoing aloneness, trusting those continually arising self-righting impulses, allowing love to flourish relationally, and facilitating clients’ ever increasing self-love-confidence-clarity.

As AEDP can be tricky to master, Penelope enjoys helping new AEDP learners relax into discovering how their innate gifts as therapists thrive and develop in this organic, emergent model. Penelope knows, personally, she will never be done learning AEDP as it challenges her personally and professionally to grow in the most important aspects of consciousness, love and will.  (more…)

Steve Carroll, LCSW

Steve Carroll, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private  practice since 1988 working with individuals, couples and  families as well as supervision/consultation for  colleagues. Prior to private practice he co-developed a  treatment unit for families experiencing child sexual  abuse, supervised a group home for adolescent girls and  supervised an outpatient therapy program for a family  service agency. He is a certified Imago therapist/ supervisor and other background training includes  psychodynamic psychotherapy, object relations, family  systems, Internal Family Systems and Focusing-Oriented  Psychotherapy. 

Steve completed AEDP’s Immersion Course with Diana  Fosha in 2008 and three years of Core Training with Eileen Russell. He has assisted in numerous Immersion Courses, ESI and II and Wired For Healing Workshop with Diana. 

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Heidi Frieze

Heidi Frieze, LCSW is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor. She is currently in private practice near Grand Central Station in New York City, and in Westchester, NY, where she treats both individual adults and couples. Heidi earned her Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University in 2004.

She participated in Diana Fosha’s first AEDP Immersion Course and completed one year of Core training with Diana. Over the years, Heidi has been in individual supervision with Eileen Russell and SueAnne Piliero and small group supervision with Ben Lipton. Heidi has assisted SueAnne in two previous Essential Skills I Training Courses in NYC and in a number of immersion courses.

She also assisted Diana Fosha at a weekend workshop at the Kripalu Center in the Berkshires, MA. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, (more…)