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…)

Lia Jones, LMFT

Lia Jones, LMFT is a certified Therapist and Supervisor in both AEDP and EFT in Denver, Colorado. She has worked with children and families experiencing homelessness in non-profit mental health services and has been in private practice since 1998.. Lia has served as both an assistant and Lead Assistant at multiple Immersion and Essential Skills trainings and helms multi-faculty core training groups in Denver. She teaches core training modules, introductions to and specific topics on AEDP to professional and student communities.

Lia is the founder of AEDP Rocky Mountains, a community group that sponsors AEDP workshops and community lunch and learns for practitioners learning the AEDP model. In addition to her practice, community work, and teaching, she offers group and individual supervision live and online. Lia has been delighting in AEDP since the 2003 Immersion followed by three years (more…)

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT

Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT is a certified AEDP therapist and supervisor, working in Israel. Idit has received her MA and Family Therapy Certification from Tel Aviv University and has practiced therapy with individuals, couples and families, in Aluma Therapy Center and private practice, since 2006. She completed the certified studies of treatment of stress and trauma, at The Trauma Center (Boston, MA), directed by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk (2013-2014).

Nowadays, Idit is teaching family therapy and AEDP through the Ministry of Social Services, and through the Israeli Association of Couples and Family Therapy. Since June 2018, Idit has been appointed the formal AEDP liaison for the Israeli community. In addition, since 2015 she is supervising a medical forum for couples (more…)

Goretti Faria, MSW, RCSW, CCC

Goretti is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor who practices as a Registered Clinical Social Worker in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada. She attained her Master of Social Work degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and brings over 30 years of experience from community mental health settings and private practice.

Goretti’s expertise lies in psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems therapy, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems. Embracing AEDP in 2014, she has contributed significantly to numerous ES1 and ES2 courses globally, serving as both assistant and Lead Assistant. Until recently, while actively involved with AEDP Vancouver, Goretti was dedicated to championing the growth of AEDP in Vancouver and its environs. In addition to her clinical work, she offers individual and group supervision services. (more…)

Malin Endrédi

Malin Endredi is a certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. Her office is in Stockholm, Sweden and nowadays online too. Malin welcomes Swedish and English speaking clients and supervisees. Malin is a member of the AEDP Sweden Program Group and one of two hosts of the AEDP Salon Stockholm/Sweden. She was a copresenter in the institute-sponsored seminar, “Transformational Synergies in AEDP, Spirituality and Psychedelics” in July, 2022.

Malin started her professional life as a clinical psychologist working with distressed parents and their dysregulated babies to help create secure attachment. After 17 years she took a Swedish attachment, relational and emotion focused psychotherapist training. That’s where Malin, through an APA video, first encountered Diana’s ways of working and AEDP and it all clicked.

She became devoted and crossed the Atlantic many times to attend trainings and assisting internationally (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 an Italian/Israeli 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 3 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.

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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…)

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