AEDP® Institute Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is an important part of AEDP™ Institute’s governance infrastructure. Its role is to receive, digest and act on -usually by delegating to sub committees of their design- substantial matters and opportunities brought to them by the Institute’s Director, the Administrative Team, Institute committees, other Institute groups and individual community members. And the Steering Committee uncovers challenges / opportunities and initiates projects on its own.
Examples of sub committees that have been formed by the Steering Committee are:
- Education Committee – evaluates faculty applications, seminar proposals and more.
- Certification Committee – reviews therapist certification process and requirements, and more.
- Conference Committee – planning the 2025 conference for the AEDP community
Read all about how the Steering Committee works here.
If you are interested in participating in an Institute committee, please contact us at steering-committee@aedpinstitute.org.
Meet the Steering Committee Members
Steve Carroll, LCSW
Monica Hodges, MBA
Deborah Lee-Thornby, MA
Ben Medley, LCSW
Cristina Mendonça, Clinical Psychologist
Suad Mohamed, MEd, RCC
Former Steering Committee members – thank you for your work!
Eden Abraham, Counsellor, Ontario CANADA
Eden Abraham (she/her), MSW is a Level 3 AEDP therapist. She earned her MSW from York University in Toronto, Ontario and is a Professional Counsellor working primarily with Black identified students at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Eden has witnessed the tremendous liberating impact on the self that AEDP can engender and feels grateful to have found her clinical home in a model that is not merely concerned with appearing to get it right but is committed to the brave/bold/messy/ever-changing work of truly getting it right. She feels profoundly grateful for the endless guidance and generosity of wisdom & expert knowledge that she has received from this community of teachers & healers. She humbly hopes to share the transformance driving gift of AEDP with other emerging Black therapists.
Kari Gleiser, PhD Psychologist, New Hampshire USA
Kari Gleiser (she/her) completed her doctoral work at Boston University and her internship through Dartmouth Medical School with a focus on trauma and PTSD. In her practice, she specializes in applying AEDP psychotherapy to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation.
Dr. Gleiser is the co-founder/co-director of the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH, a trauma center dedicated to multi-modal healing of mind, body and spirit. She has co-developed an “intra-relational” model of AEDP therapy that imports the model’s relational and experiential interventions to patients’ internal systems of dissociated self-states. Dr. Gleiser has written clinical papers and book chapters and has presented at international conferences. She explores the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT, Tel Aviv ISRAEL
Idit Ronen-Setter, MFT is an AEDP Certified Therapist and Certified 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 psychotherapy through the Ministry of Social Services, Shiluvim Institute, and the Israeli Association of Couples and Family Therapy. Idit served as the formal AEDP Institute liaison for the Israeli community from 2018 – 2022. In addition, since 2015 she is supervising a medical forum for couples and families in crisis. She has recently published two articles (with Prof. Esther Cohen), related to AEDP: One of them in Hebrew at Betipulnet, and the other at the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, called “Becoming ‘teletherapeutic’: Harnessing Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy for challenges of the Covid-19 era.”
Idit made her first encounter with AEDP during her training at The Trauma Center. Since then, feeling “positively hooked” with AEDP as a compass for psychotherapy in practice, she has travelled between Israel, the United States and Europe, in her quest for professional AEDP development. She is glad to have had the guidance of faculty members and senior faculty in enhancing her knowledge and expertise in AEDP. Alongside, she is profoundly learning from clients and supervisees who bring life into practice. With supervisees, she sees her role as part of a mutual quest towards grasping transformational healing processes, while promoting an affirmative sense of self within the therapist.