Archives: Faculty

Yuko Hanakawa, PhD

Yuko Hanakawa, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York City who was “raised” by AEDP from the very beginning of her career. She met Dr. Diana Fosha as a doctoral student at Adelphi University and has been deeply engaged with AEDP’s transformative healing process ever since, focusing particularly on body-mind connection, positive emotions, and moment-to-moment tracking.

Her contributions to the field include a chapter on moment-to-moment tracking in “Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0” (2021) and a clinical article on therapist-patient gratitude published in the AEDP Transformance Journal (2011). She has published extensively in Japanese, including her first AEDP book, “Transforming Your Counseling Skills: A Practical Method to Heal Emotions” (2020) and several professional papers. 

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Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Karen is a psychotherapist in San Rafael, California, and Senior Faculty of the AEDP Institute. She was irresistibly drawn to AEDP in 2005 and captivated by the depth and breadth of this transformational model. She immersed herself in training and consultation with Dr. Fosha and three years of core training with Dr. Frederick. Ms. Pando-Mars is one of the founders of AEDP West and chaired the AEDP Institute Education Committee from 2011-2018.  Since 2020, Ms. Pando-Mars is a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion Committee) and in 2022, she became a consultant to the Vision Collective.

Ms. Pando-Mars’ passionate interest in what cultivates deep connection between Self and Other has been furthered by attachment theory and related neuroscience. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal relational trauma.

Ms. Pando-Mars background in somatic and experiential therapies, including Focusing, Biofeedback, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Sandtray-Worldplay, EMDR, and Authentic Movement, influence and are woven throughout her work. She was a founder of The Sandtray Network and a contributing editor of its journal. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course.

She teaches AEDP across the United States and internationally.  Her publication “Tailoring AEDP interventions to attachment style,” 2016 Transformance Journal, 6 (2) is the basis for the book, Tailoring Treatment to attachment patterns: Healing trauma in relationship, co-authored with Diana Fosha, to be published March 2025 by Norton & Co., now available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

Jenna Osiason, PhD

Jenna Osiason, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and AEDP Supervisor who was a founding member of AEDP Institute and served as Senior Faculty from 2004 until  2021 when she transitioned to her current role as AEDP Faculty Emerita. She began short-term psychotherapy training at the Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Institute of Denville, New Jersey, training in Accelerated Emphatic Therapy. She has been working with Dr. Fosha since 1992 analyzing videotaped psychotherapy sessions, focusing on the use of empathy to restructure defenses. This work has lead to the rich development of AEDP techniques to facilitate treatment and enhance access to core affect, strengthen the experience of self-regulation, and deepen self/other bonds. Dr. Osiason has given workshops on AEDP to mental health sites throughout New York City. (more…)

Dale Trimble, MA

Dale Trimble, MA served as AEDP Faculty/Sr. Faculty from 2015 until  2022, when he transitioned to his current role as AEDP Faculty Emerita & Supervisor. He received his M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from Antioch University in 1977. In 1981 Dale co-founded the first court ordered treatment program for men who assault their partners in the province of British Columbia. He was the lead author of the Canadian syllabus for CP 602 – The Psychology of Trauma and Interpersonal Violence for City University of Seattle, Vancouver, BC campus, where Dale has taught and supervised graduate students. Known as a Canadian expert on working with men, Dale has travelled throughout Canada providing training for therapists on compassionate ways of helping men change.

In 2003-04 Dale was the recipient of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, President’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Profession. (more…)

Miriam Marsolais, PhD

Miriam Marsolais, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and Jungian Analyst in Berkeley, California.  She served as AEDP Faculty from 2014 until  2018, when she transitioned to her current role as AEDP Faculty Emerita & Supervisor. In addition to her private clinical practice, Dr. Marsolais provides supervision to therapists wishing to train in AEDP and the certified AEDP therapists on the Supervisor Certification track. In supervision Miriam emphasizes moment-to-moment awareness of patients’ and supervisees’ internal states, both during therapy sessions and while watching clinical video.  In this way supervisees learn to recognize how their own internal states affect their clinical responses.  They develop skills needed to employ the most effective AEDP interventions moment-to-moment in each stage of AEDP therapy

As a young adult Dr. Marsolais performed as a violinist, was a nun and taught high school science and mathematics. Following a near-fatal burn injury, her life took a major turn and her passions were redirected towards the study of history,psychology and Eastern (more…)

Timothy J. Beyer, PhD

Timothy J. Beyer, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, trainer, and consultant. Co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, California, he has been training in and practicing AEDP for many years. With a firm belief in the power of relationships to heal, Dr. Beyer works collaboratively with clients and trainees to achieve profound and lasting results. Dr. Beyer earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of North Dakota, and an MA and PhD in Counseling and Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.

In addition to his private practice, Dr. Beyer works in the Quality Improvement Division of the County of Los Angeles, Department of Mental Health. He has many years of experience working in university and business settings providing consultation, (more…)

Jerry Lamagna, LCSW

Jerry is a senior faculty member with the AEDP Institute and a psychotherapist in private practice in New York and New Jersey. With training in psychodrama, EMDR, ego state therapy, trauma treatment and IFS and over 20 years studying AEDP, his clinical work has primarily focused on the treatment of complex trauma.

Along with Dr. Kari Gleiser, Jerry developed a modified version of AEDP for the treatment of dissociative disorders and has published three papers and a book chapter in AEDP 2.0: Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing.  

In addition to writing, supervising and providing psychotherapy, Jerry has presented internationally at conferences sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), the International Experiential and Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Nalanda Institute, The Minnesota Trauma Project and the AEDP Institute.

Kai MacDonald, MD

Kai MacDonaldKai MacDonald, MD, graduated from the University of Minnesota medical school and now practices in San Diego. His practice life has reflected his broad, eclectic interests, and in the past has included being board-certified in family practice, and acting as a teaching physician on consult-liaison (inpatient hospital psychiatry), emergency room and inpatient psychiatric units. Residents have voted him as a top teacher in years past. Based on his interest in addiction, Dr. MacDonald is medical director for a local outpatient substance abuse program, and has actively worked with patients in recovery for years. Additionally, in collaboration with several colleagues, Dr. MacDonald designed and teaches a quarterly remediation course for practicing physicians referred due to boundary violations; this course has been recognized as a national gold-standard by the medical board. In 2009, he was voted by his peers as one of the top psychiatrists in San Diego. Though he identifies himself primarily as front-line clinician, Dr. MacDonald has participated as a clinical investigator in dozens of pharmaceutical trials in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anxiety, depression and agitation. More recently, a pointed interest in social neuroscience and attachment led to authoring several ongoing studies on the activity of oxytocin, a uniquely social neuropeptide. Dr. MacDonald has published peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics, including dissociation and dissociative amnesia, ADHD, interoception, agitation, eye contact, bipolar disorder, and oxytocin. Over the last decade, Dr. MacDonald has worked to hone his skills as a psychotherapist, participating in training in EMDR, ISTDP (intensive short-term dynamic therapy) and AEDP (accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy). His long-term professional interests include understanding the functional neurobiology of emotion, attention and attachment, mastering and teaching techniques of rapid psychotherapeutic change, and translating neurobiological insights into practical models for clinicians. In terms of his relationship with AEDP, this is what Dr. MacDonald writes: “I am attracted to AEDP’s focus on bondedness and genuine warmth in therapy, as well as its grounding in both evidence-based short-term therapy techniques and state-of-the-art neuroscience. This attraction–paired with my conviction that a new consilience between biology, phenomenology and shared humanity is upon us–spurred my involvement in the inception of Transformance: The AEDP Journal, and an ongoing role as its neuroscience consultant.”

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, is a Senior and founding Faculty member of the AEDP Institute. He has been instrumental in the development and teaching of AEDP across the US and in Canada, Sweden, Israel, Norway, and Denmark. He also supervises individuals and small groups of clinicians learning AEDP around the world. A sought after teacher and speaker, Ben is known for his open and engaging style, his humor, and his particular ability to translate complex theoretical concepts into user-friendly, accessible and engaging learning experiences. Ben has edited a book and contributed many book chapters and articles in psychology and social service journals as well as mainstream magazines. His most recent publication is a chapter on therapeutic presence in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 edited by Diana Fosha. During the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US, Ben was the Director of Clinical Services at Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC),

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Victoria Cheung, RP DMin MM

Victoria Cheung, DMin, is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. She is trained in AEDP with Danny Yeung and has been assisting in training and supervision of Hong Kong colleagues since 2005. She received her certification in AEDP in 2010. Victoria is the author of “Presencing Care”, a book on healing presence through the lens of AEDP. She is also the co-author with Danny Yeung MD, of The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and the lead author of Portrait of the Soul, a work that deeply resonates with AEDP.

Victoria has written in Chinese, produced and directed sixteen educational DVDs and CDs that are instrumental to the learning and the growth of the AEDP community in Hong Kong.

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