
Reading Together
A New Members Only Benefit!
Hosted by Carrie Ruggieri, LMHC, BCETS, editor of Transformance: The AEDP Journal
12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
From Theory to Transformation: Offered monthly and facilitated by Transformance: The AEDP Journal editor Carrie Ruggieri, each session invites a deep, shared reading aloud of AEDP session transcripts. Experience therapist–patient dialogue from AEDP experts. Through this immersive, ‘deliberate experience,’ you’ll feel the impact of the work, sense what it’s like to be the client hearing those words, and experience the expert therapist’s process of delivering precise and impactful AEDP interventions.
Meet the Host

Carrie has been an active member of the AEDP Institute since completing the Immersion course in 2007. She has served as the Transformance Journal Listserv Discussant since 2013, Associate Editor of Transformance: The AEDP Journal since 2019, and Editor-in-Chief since 2024. Her contributions the journal includes: Laura Hillenbrand: Author as True Other—Inspiring Quantum Resilience (Vol. 3); AEDP-Informed Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (Vol. 8); AEDP Author as True Other: A Successful Application of the AEDP Ethos in a Self-Help Book—A Review of Ron Frederick’s Loving Like You Mean It (Vol. 9); and An Ecology of Core Self Flourishing (Vol. 13).
Carrie earned her Master’s degree in Psychology at The New School for Social Research and is a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. In her Rhode Island psychotherapy practice specializing in complex trauma, drawing on her developmental research background from the Margaret S. Mahler Observational Research Lab at The New School and the Infant Behavior Clinic at Women & Infants Hospital, Brown University. Alongside AEDP psychotherapy, she once offered Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and conducts trauma evaluations through the Brown Human Rights Asylum Clinic.
Upcoming Readings
Past Reading Discussions
Bite by Bite: Working with Eating Disorders by Jessica K. Slatus, LCSW|
Seeing the Invisible by Kari Gleiser, PhD
Transformational Affects and Core State in AEDP: The Emergence and Consolidation of Joy, Hope, Gratitude and Confidence in (the Solid Goodness) of the Self
Diana Fosha, PhD and Eileen Russell, PhD
November 12, 2025
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News & Spotlights
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AEDP Institute Now Approved by ASWB!
We’re pleased to announce that AEDP Institute has been approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Social workers can again earn
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New Volume: Journal Transformance
We’re delighted to announce the release of Transformance Journal, Volume 14, featuring powerful and deeply moving explorations of AEDP’s global reach and cultural resonance. This issue highlights how AEDP is being lived, practiced, and integrated across diverse contexts around the world — from Brazil to Sweden, Korea, China, and beyond.
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Julia Jalalat is now a certified AEDP Therapist!!!
I had the good fortune of being Julia’s Certification supervisor working closely with her on the transcriptions of her work with her clients. Our discussions were lively and informative and educative for me as well as for Julia. Her ability to invite me fully into the sessions and feel the work with her was very…
