Liza Greville, LCSW

Liza is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor in private practice in Kane, Pennsylvania. She offers individual therapy to adults in Pennsylvania, New York and Montana, as well as individual and group consultation.

Liza was introduced to AEDP in 2016, immediately struck by the ‘art of therapy’ that bridges the brilliant complexity of AEDP theory and the simplicity yet potency of the interventions. She remains ever-curious, especially interested in clinical creativity, pragmatism and presence.

Similarly, Liza seeks to join consultees in an affirming and active learning process that integrates left-brain rigor and right-brain perceptivity. She works with consultees to build skills that deepen experiential processes, to understand AEDP’s 9+1 affective change mechanisms, and to expand naturalness of use of Self. She welcomes therapists new to the model, as well as those with more experience and seeking certification. (more…)

Elizabeth Perkins, LMFT

Elizabeth Perkins, LMFT Liz is in private practice in San Diego, California. She is a Certified AEDP Therapist and Certified AEDP Supervisor. She specializes in Complex PTSD, chronic Depression and Psychedelic integration. Liz thrives on fine-tuning her skills in her own individual supervision and while supervising others. Liz feels that AEDP has been responsible for her most memorable and meaningful breakthrough moments in sessions.

When supervising others, she loves supporting the therapist in finding their AEDP style within the theory. She is also passionate about investigating all paths to transformational healing and has been avidly researching the intersections and parallels of AEDP  & psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is MAPS trained, a member of the AEDP & MDMA Research Committee, and a founding member of the AEDP & Psychedelics Committee. In addition, she has trained in Holotropic breathwork and TRE.

Sigal Bahat, MA

Sigal Bahat, MA, is a faculty member of AEDP™ Institute and the Institute’s ambassador to the AEDP in the Israel region. She teaches and supervises AEDP in Israel, the US, and internationally. She has a private practice in Israel and works remotely.

Sigal started her career as a Dance Movement Therapist and then completed training both as an Expressive & Creative psychotherapist and a Bio-energetic Analyst. She is certified and has many years of experience teaching somatic mindfulness approaches: The Alexander Technique, The Feldenkrais Method, and Authentic Movement.

Meeting with AEDP and Dr. Diana Fosha resonated with a decades-long quest for the intra-intimate connections between the mind and the psyche-soma. Sigal brings to AEDP elaborate teachings of the clinical use of the Somatic Portal and the nonverbal communication layer between therapist and patient.

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Karin Dorell, MD 

Karin Dorell, MD, is a board certified Psychiatrist and Certified AEDP psychotherapist and supervisor currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. She completed her medical training in Milan, Italy and her Residency and Fellowship in New York City.

Over the years she worked in Emergency Psychiatry and in Community Outreach Projects as well as in private practice in New York city, London and Rome. Very early in her training she got passionate about the AEDP model that became an integral part of who she is and how she works. She is currently heading both the AEDP Italy and AEDP Africa Communities.

Over the past 6 years she has been supervising staff at the Scalabrini Refugee Center in Cape Town, South Africa where she developed a personal development curriculum for women refugees informed by the AEDP model.

Since the beginning of the pandemic she has been passionate about facilitating access to AEDP training online to mental health colleagues working in the community around the African continent.

The intent is both to support african clinicians in their work, undo their aloneness and at the same time integrate a more culturally diverse and powerful voice in the predominantly white mental health world.

Judy Silberstein, LCSW 

Judy has been an experiential therapist in private practice for over 35 years. She is a Certified AEDP Therapist, a Certified AEDP Supervisor, an avid explorer of intra-relational parts work, active imagining and CSRT. She continues to be inspired by the model since she studied with Diana Fosha in 2011. Judy offers individual psychotherapy for chronic relational trauma and PTSD, online and in-person in NYC. As a clinical consultant she loves helping consultees be courageous and curious in their work with clients, their client’s parts as well as their own!

Judy has explored various experiential learnings which she weaves into AEDP. She is a Certified Bioenergetic Therapist and Supervisor, actively using body-mind processes in the therapy dyad. She has trained extensively in Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems and EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and CRM – Comprehensive Resource Modeling. (more…)

Ilene Yasemsky, LCSW

Ilene Yasemsky, LCSW. I first heard Diana present in Oakland in 2003.  I sat in an empty conference room for over an hour after her presentation ended, writing things I wanted to say to all my clients.  AEDP became my clinical home from that day on. 

Fast forward 17 years—post-immersions, 3 years of Core Training, assisting multiple times at ES1 and ES2, and hours of precious individual supervision—I am still a striving therapist and inspired student of AEDP, a model that continues to deepen and expand. 

AEDP has held me (and vice versa) in my private practice in Berkeley, where I see a combination of individuals, couples, and families, and in my role as the Clinical Director of an AEDP-informed acute adolescent psychiatric hospital in the east bay.  I love the concept of transformance, how it is always there to spur us to change for the better and, especially at this moment in time, I am betting every day on the good trouble transformance brings to the condition of our humanity. 

Being an experiential assistant is a chance for me to emulate and honor the teachers and supervisors I have had and to help make it safe and fun to learn this model I love.

John Wiskind, LCSW, MPH

John Wiskind, LCSW, MPH was born and raised in Ohio, I’m itching to travel and my husband and I are so glad our son is now a rising 5th grader.  I’m a LCSW in the Bay Area in California.  I completed Immersion in 2012 followed by Core Training, ES1 & ES2.  I’ve been working with a faculty supervisor for the last 4 years and have had the honor of assisting at various trainings. 

Working with fellow therapists to enhance their understanding and application of the model gives me a lot of joy, especially because AEDP has been so professionally and personally transformative and I like being a part of that for other clinicians.  Assisting and being an experiential group member have, for me, been some of the most profound and impactful learning experiences along my AEDP journey. 

I am tremendously grateful for each of those experiences and fellow clinicians.  Even in the midst of the global health pandemic and the pandemic of racial injustice, I’m finding AEDP a beacon of hope and groundedness and look forward to jumping into this work together.

Martina Verba, LCSW, DSW

Martina Verba, LCSW, DSW is an AEDP Adjunct Faculty member, AEDP Certified Therapist and Supervisor in private practice in Westchester County, NY. She fell in love with AEDP when she took Diana’s Immersion course in 2008. She has both assisted and lead-assisted for Immersion and Essential Skills, as well as presented at Immersion. She has extensive experience working with patients with eating disorders and has developed a practice that integrates eating disorder treatment and AEDP. She is on the faculty of the Integrative Trauma Treatment Program at the National Institute of Psychotherapies.

Prior to finding AEDP, Martina worked as an eating disorder specialist at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, a staff therapist at Harvard University’s mental health service, an adjunct professor at Simmons College, and the Director of Counseling at a program for at-risk youth in Boston. (more…)

Kaori Stram, LMHC

Kaori Stram, LMHC is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor. She is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York.  Her AEDP journey started in 2014 when she was first introduced to the work of Yuko Hanakawa and attracted to its warm heart-to-heart connection between a therapist and a client.  She has assisted many courses in-person and online as an experiential assistant and lead assistant.  Since 2021, she has presented at Immersion and ES1 courses as well as trained Japanese therapists in Japan.

Kaori is also participating in an AEDP 16-session research project as a treating therapist.

Her passion is to help spread AEDP to Japan where she originally comes from and has been actively involved in the AEDP Japanese community.

Molly Eldridge, LICSW

Molly is a certified AEDP Clinician and Supervisor. Known for her enthusiastic embodiment and love of sharing AEDP, Molly’s appreciation stems in part, from its emphasis on the experiential, “right here, right now” focus, coupled with its heartfelt and cogent theoretical framework. She champions capacity to embrace therapists authentic selves, encouraging them to integrate their diverse skills and approaches into the model.

Molly, like so many others, discovered her therapeutic home in AEDP and works in supervision to assist others in finding their place there too. With extensive training in AEDP beginning in 2008, Molly has taught AEDP at the Cape Cod Institute, New England Society of Trauma and Dissociation, and workshops around the US. Molly is committed to the modality and has been a part of various AEDP committees and is now chairing the 2025 AEDP Conference. (more…)

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