
Reading Together
A New Members Only Benefit!
All Reading are Hosted by Carrie Ruggieri, LMHC, BCETS, editor of Transformance: The AEDP Journal
Dates: See below for upcoming Readings
Times: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
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 published in the Journal.
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
Transformation of Transgenerational Trauma: A Cross -Cultural Context: by H. Jacquie Ye-Perman
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: April 8, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(1):
Reading Transformation of Transgenerational Trauma: A Cross-Cultural Context
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Therapeutic Delight or Cultural Discomfort? Enhancing Receptive Affective Capacity Across Cultures: By Tamar (Tammy) Avichail
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(2):
Reading: Therapeutic Delight or Cultural Discomfort? Enhancing Receptive Affective Capacity Across Cultures
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Culturally Attuned AEDP for Attachment Integration: Four Internal Working Models of a Taiwanese Adopted Migrant Boy: By Yi-Fang (Evon) Chiu
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
Date: June 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
Journal: Transformance Journal Vol. 15(2):
Reading: Culturally Attuned AEDP for Attachment Integration: Four Internal Working Models of a Taiwanese Adopted Migrant Boy
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Past Reading Discussions
Time & Slowing, Attachment & Loss in 16-Session AEDP Therapy : by Gail Woods, LCSW, LMFT
Presented by Carrie Ruggieri
recorded March 11, 2026
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Reading: Transformance Journal Vol 11
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Reading 1: Benjamin Lipton’s article, The Being is the Doing: The Foundational Place of Therapeutic Presence in AEDP.
Reading 2: Wendy Summer’s article, Therapeutic Presence with Emerging Adults: An AEDP-Informed Approach Vol.10
recorded February 11, 2026
Recorded February 11, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
Reading 1: The Being is the Doing: The Foundational Place of Therapeutic Presence in AEDP.
Reading 2: Therapeutic Presence with Emerging Adults: An AEDP-Informed Approach Vol.10
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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 by Diana Fosha, PhD and Eileen Russell, PhD
November 12, 2025
Recorded November 12, 2025
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