Thank you @jordanfstephens for sharing about how AEDP has impacted your life and @hilaryjacobshendel for sharing the Change Triangle with him. We love hearing stories of how AEDP is working for people. Keep sharing and telling us how!
Dear AEDP Community,
The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is delighted to share wonderful news and celebrate an important professional milestone.
Avi Klein has officially been recognized as an AEDP Certified Supervisor. This distinction follows a thorough and thoughtful review of his clinical work, supervisory capacities, and depth of understanding of the AEDP theoretical framework. The Review Board unanimously affirmed both the quality of Avi’s work and his readiness to step fully into this role.
Congratulations, Avi! Your dedication to ongoing learning, growth, and clinical excellence is deeply evident, and your achievement will undoubtedly enrich our AEDP community.
We also extend our heartfelt appreciation to Avi’s supervisors — Yuko Hanakawa, SueAnne Piliero, Dale Trimble, Goretti Faria, and Ron Frederick — whose mentorship, guidance, and support were integral to his journey toward becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor. Your contributions helped shape and support this accomplishment.
Please join us in warmly celebrating Avi and this significant achievement. Those who wish to offer congratulations or connect personally are warmly invited to do so via backchannel at @avikleintherapy@gmail.com.
You can also view Avi’s AEDP Certified Supervisor bio here: https://aedpinstitute.
Avi shared the following reflections on his journey:
“My relationship with AEDP began more than fourteen years ago as a patient while I was in graduate school. I remember sitting with the experience thinking, ‘What was that?’ and ‘I want more of this.’ I trained as a therapist, fell deeper in love with the model, and I’m sure I began supervising as a way to continue my own learning — and boy, did I learn! I feel very honored to now be certified as a supervisor.
I think I have been extraordinarily lucky in my supervisors, and I am so grateful that Yuko Hanakawa, SueAnne Piliero, Dale Trimble, Goretti Faria, and Ron Frederick have shaped how I am as a therapist and how I show up in the room. I worked with them because I wanted to emulate them, and I hope I do them justice.
I’m also deeply appreciative of my supervisees, who are so trusting in sharing their work with me, and whose collegiality makes it a pleasure to do supervision each week.
And of course, none of this exists without Diana Fosha, who gifted us this beautiful model and community, which I’m grateful to be a part of in this new way.”
With great appreciation,
Avi
on behalf of the AEDP Supervisory Review Board
Avi is Accepting new Supervisees
View Avi’s Bio here
Dear AEDP Community,
The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is pleased to share an important professional milestone and warmly celebrate a new achievement within our community.
Courtney Poignand has been formally recognized as an AEDP Certified Supervisor. This designation follows a comprehensive review of her clinical and supervisory work, as well as her demonstrated depth of engagement with AEDP theory and practice. The Review Board unanimously affirmed both the excellence of her work and her readiness for this role. Congratulations, Courtney—your commitment to ongoing learning, clinical integrity, and growth is clearly reflected in this accomplishment and will continue to enrich our community.
We also extend our sincere appreciation to Courtney’s supervisors, Kate Halliday and Kari Gleiser, whose guidance, mentorship, and steady support were integral throughout this process. Your contributions were deeply meaningful to this achievement.
We invite the community to join in celebrating Courtney’s certification. Those who wish to reach out directly may do so at: poignand@yahoo.com.
Courtney’s AEDP Certified Supervisor bio and availability can be viewed here on the supervisors page.
Courtney shares the following reflections on her journey:
Today, becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor feels like coming home.
What a joyful and deeply meaningful milestone this is.
My AEDP journey began in 2014. I became a Certified AEDP Therapist in 2021, and today I am thrilled and honored to join this extraordinary community as a Certified Supervisor. Along the way, I also became a Certified Psychedelic Somatic Psychotherapist. These milestones reflect a path that has transformed not only my professional work, but also the way I move through the world.
The journey wasn’t always easy. There were seasons when life asked much of me, and at times the path felt long. Yet those very experiences became part of the learning, strengthening my trust that growth often unfolds not despite life’s challenges, but through them. Perhaps that’s why this moment feels so much like coming home—not because the path was easy, but because every step belonged to it.
As a somatic, holistically oriented therapist, AEDP has deepened my trust in our remarkable capacity to heal, grow, and move toward greater connection and self-realization when held within the safety of secure relationships. It is an extraordinary privilege to witness authenticity, vitality, and aliveness emerge. This work continues to fill me with hope, wonder, and awe.
My heartfelt gratitude goes to my supervisors, teachers, mentors, my AEDP therapist, friends, colleagues, patients, and supervisees. Special thanks to Molly Eldridge, Steve Shapiro, Karen Pando-Mars, Kari Gleiser, Kate Halliday, Jenn Edlin, Ben Medley, Diana Fosha, and many others who have accompanied me along the way.
I step into this new chapter with joy, humility, and excitement. I welcome inquiries about individual and group supervision and look forward to connecting with colleagues who share a passion for transformational healing.
Here’s to the journey—and to all that is still unfolding.
Thank you
On behalf of the AEDP Supervisory Review Board
View Courtney’s Supervisor Bio here
Courtney is accepting new supervisees:
The AEDP Vision Collective has named Nicky Cameron, LCSW, as its new chair, with Lois Ridley, MA, serving as Co-Chair.
The AEDP Vision Collective is a committed and heartfelt group of Black-identified therapists united by a shared commitment to deepening and expanding AEDP’s understanding, addressing, and support for the healing of racialized trauma. Through its own leadership, reflection, and dedication, the Collective continues its important work within the AEDP community.
What excites you most about the future of the Vision Collective?
“I believe meaningful change comes through relationship, curiosity, and a willingness to engage one another. As Chair of the Vision Collective, what excites me most about our future is the chance to co-create spaces with the broader AEDP community where we bring our unique gifts, experiences, and perspectives into honest dialogue. Together, we can explore how AEDP can contribute to healing racialized trauma. My hope is that we embody the spirit of AEDP as we discover what meaningful action and lasting impact can actually look like.”
Nicky Cameron, LCSW — Chair
How has being part of the Vision Collective impacted you personally and professionally?
“The AEDP Vision Collective, for me, is a perfect representation of our AEDP clinical model. It feels like a happy and loving, safe corner in my professional world. The VC team has my heart, and I have theirs.
“The work we do together and individually to impact the trajectory of safe, culturally attuned, and trauma-informed healing of BIPOC individuals requires bravery and courage. It helps me tremendously to have a healthy community to support the work I do personally to enhance the counseling profession in learning environments. I love how we in the Vision Collective work collectively to grow and enhance the greater AEDP family of professionals. Personally, I have experienced the Vision Collective as an honest environment of closeness, relationship, bravery, healthy challenge, clinical rigor, grace, academic excellence, and most of all, a mini family within our loving AEDP ecosphere.”
Lois Ridley, MA — Co-Chair
Please join us in congratulating Nicky and Lois and in thanking the Collective for the care and courage this work asks of them.
Learn more about the AEDP Vision Collective.
For the past five years, the AEDP Institute’s Director of Research, Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD, has served as president of the world’s most prominent psychotherapy research organization: the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR).
Shigeru capped off his tenure by hosting SPR’s 57th annual international conference in Osaka, Japan, where he and his team of graduate students welcomed over 730 researchers from 48 countries. They came together to share leading-edge psychotherapy process research findings, discuss new ideas and challenges in the field, and network and enjoy each other!
Because Shigeru and his team at Ritsumeikan University are deeply involved and invested in the ongoing AEDP psychotherapy research project, there was a lot of excitement about AEDP at the conference. Below are the titles of the panel, presentations, and posters presented by Shigeru and his team.
Positive Experiences and Transformational Processes in Psychotherapy: Measuring In-Session Pathways of Change in AEDP
Wakako Yamazaki, iEFT Japan, Tokyo, Japan
The Role of Positive Emotions in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Niv Gross, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; Eran Bar-Kalifa, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel; and Ben Shahar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Development of a Coding System of Affirmation in Psychotherapy
Ayumi Noda, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan; Shigeru Iwakabe, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan; Marina DiCorcia, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan; Akira Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan; Fumika Nishikawa, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Cheng Liu, Ritsumeikan University; Chen Liang, Ritsumeikan University; Junzhe Zhang, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Toki Ozaki, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan; and Kenshin Shigemura, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan
Flourishing Experiences in AEDP: Client Flourishing Experiences and Subsequent Improvement in a Lagged Model
Wakako Yamazaki, iEFT Japan, Tokyo, Japan; Marina DiCorcia, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan; Kaori Nakamura, Bunkyo Gakuin University; Shigeru Iwakabe, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan; Diana Fosha, AEDP Institute; Andrew Joseph, AEDP Institute; Richard Harrison, AEDP Institute; and Lauren Lepow, Parsons Research Center for Psychedelic Healing at Mount Sinai
Effective Moment-to-Moment Interventions for Working with Complex PTSD: Findings from a Multiple-Case Comparison in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Akira Matsumoto, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan; Marina DiCorcia, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan; Richard Harrison, AEDP Institute; Cheng Liu, Ritsumeikan University; Chen Liang, Ritsumeikan University; Andrew Joseph, AEDP Institute; Diana Fosha, AEDP Institute; and Shigeru Iwakabe, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan
Examining Therapeutic Change: Emotional and Relational Processes in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): A Multilevel Analysis
Junzhe Zhang, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; and Shigeru Iwakabe, Ritsumeikan University
Congratulations to Shigeru Iwakabe, Wakako Yamazaki, Ayumi Noda, Akira Matsumoto, Niv Gross, and Marina DiCorcia on this incredible achievement, and thank you for continuing to be the academic backbone of AEDP psychotherapy research!
Learn more about the Society for Psychotherapy Research at psychotherapyresearch.org.
We are thrilled to celebrate three members of our community who have achieved AEDP Supervisor certification, a milestone that reflects not only clinical mastery but also a deep capacity to hold, guide, and delight in the growth of other therapists.
Supervision in AEDP is more than case consultation. It is experiential and relational at its core. Supervisors work to undo the aloneness of the therapist, meet clinical struggles with affirmation rather than judgment, and help supervisees metabolize the moment-to-moment work of transformation, so they can offer their clients the same secure, healing-centred presence.
Becoming an AEDP Supervisor asks for years of dedicated practice, immersion in the model, and a genuine gift for accompanying others. These three clinicians embody all of that.
Please join us in congratulating:
So-Yeon (Yeony) Kim
Mimi Steele
Shelley Carr
Click on each name to learn more about their work and how to connect with them.
We are grateful for the wisdom, warmth, and dedication they bring to this community, to the supervisees they accompany, and through them, to countless clients on their healing journeys.
Visit our Supervisor Directory to connect with a certified AEDP Supervisor. Learn more about the path to AEDP Supervisor certification.
Dear AEDP community,
We are happy to share and celebrate a meaningful professional milestone:
Shelley Carr is now a new AEDP Certified supervisor and has received formal recognition following a rigorous review of her clinical practice, professional capabilities, and command of the theoretical framework!
After a thoughtful and detailed consideration of the submitted materials, the review panel reached a unanimous decision to confer this certification — reflecting both high standards of excellence and clear readiness for this role. Shelley has mastered AEDP theory, skill sets and its basic orientation of supporting dignity, kindness, sensitivity and personal integrity. She modeled it in her attitude and implicit and explicit communications. Congratulations, Shelley! We deeply appreciate your continued commitment to growth and development. Your achievement will undoubtedly enhance and benefit our community as a whole.
We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to Shelley supervisors, Kate Halliday and Ben Medley, who accompanied this journey. Your attentive mentorship and steady support helped nurture Shelley’s progression and made this accomplishment possible.
This is truly a shared success for all three of you!
Please join us in warmly congratulating Shelley.
With much joy for this news,
The Supervisory Review Board.
Please view Shelley’s Supervisor Bio here
Dear AEDP community,
We are delighted to share and honor an important professional achievement: Mimi Steele is now an AEDP Certified Supervisor and has been officially acknowledged as such after an assessment of her clinical work, competencies, and depth of theoretical understanding!
Following an examination of the submitted materials, the review board reached a unanimous decision to award this certification.
Congratulations, Mimi, and thank you for continuing to grow and evolve in your professional journey. Your accomplishment will strengthen and inspire our entire community.
We also wish to express our heartfelt appreciation to Jeanne Newhouse and Wendy Summer, who served as Mimi’s supervisors throughout this process. Your mentorship and thoughtful guidance supported Mimi’s ongoing learning and success. Together, the three of you have made this possible!
Please join us in recognizing and celebrating Mimi Steele for this meaningful and well-earned milestone.
With much cheerfulness and warmth, The Supervisory Review Board.
Please view Mimi’s Supervisor Bio here
Dear AEDP community,
The AEDP Supervisory Review Board is delighted to share wonderful news and celebrate an important milestone!
Yeony Kim has officially been recognized as a Certified AEDP Supervisor. This distinction follows a thorough and thoughtful review of their clinical work, supervisory skills, and theoretical understanding. The review board unanimously affirmed both the quality of Yeony’s work and their readiness to step fully into this role.
Congratulations, Yeony! Your dedication to ongoing growth and deepening practice is evident, and your achievement will surely enrich our AEDP community.
We also extend our heartfelt appreciation to Yuko Hanakawa and Danny Yeung, whose supervision and mentorship were integral to Yeony’s journey. Your collaboration and guidance played a vital role in this accomplishment.
Please join us in celebrating Yeony and this significant achievement. Those who wish to share congratulations or connect personally are warmly invited to do so via backchannel at @soykim68@hanmail.net.
Warmly,
The Supervisory Review Board
Idit Ronen-Setter, Jeanne Newhouse, Matt Fried, Natasha Prenn, Carolyn Fitzgerald, and Wendy Summer
Please view Yeony’s Supervisor bio here
There is a particular joy in witnessing a clinician grow into the fullness of their craft. AEDP certification marks a deepening capacity to sit with another person in their most vulnerable moments and to help transform suffering into healing through genuine connection.
AEDP rests on a simple but profound conviction: that human beings are wired for healing and that transformation becomes possible when we no longer have to face our pain alone. To become certified is to commit deeply to that vision, through many hours of practice, close consultation, and the willingness to stay present with both the struggle and the flourishing of those we serve.
The clinicians we celebrate today have walked this path with dedication and heart. Certification is both an arrival and a beginning, honoring what they have already accomplished while opening the door to all the lives they will continue to touch.
We are so proud to celebrate these members of our community who have recently achieved AEDP Certification. Each of these clinicians has demonstrated deep commitment to the healing-oriented, relationally embedded work at the heart of AEDP, and we are honored to mark this milestone with them.
Click on each name to learn more about their work and how to connect with them.
We are grateful for the dedication each of them brings to this community and to the clients they serve!
Visit our Therapist Directory to connect with a certified AEDP® therapist.
Learn more about the AEDP® Certification Pathway.
Dear all,
I am delighted to announce that Alessandra Lassen, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has become a certified AEDP therapist!
Alessandra is deeply invested in her development as an AEDP therapist.
She is available, attuned, and responsive, with a loving yet firm presence that provides the sense of safety her clients need to facilitate transformance. She embodies the AEDP relational stance, bringing authenticity, emotional availability, and attunement to the therapeutic relationship as central agents of change. Her work has been very inspiring to the entire Brazilian AEDP community.
Ale’s reviewers wrote about her work:
“What a privilege it was to review Alessandra’s beautiful work. She demonstrates, with remarkable precision, all of the skills of a very seasoned AEDP therapist.
I was especially struck by Alessandra’s relational work in both recordings. It was so warm and loving, yet also persistent and firm. Her relational work creates an environment of safety and bravery, building a clear bridge to transformance. It is very clear how deeply Alessandra carries the scaffolding of AEDP in her bones.
I found myself smiling at the coordinated relational experiences between Alessandra and her patients, the obvious pleasure and delight they took in one another, and the ways Alessandra helped her patients access and love these younger and disowned parts of themselves.
Sublime work from a very skillful clinician!”
Please join me in congratulating and celebrating Ale’s accomplishment.
Warmly,
Gabi Mendes