KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Diana Fosha, Ph.D., Director of the AEDP Institute, is author of The Transforming Power of Affect (Basic Books, 2000) and numerous papers on transformational processes in experiential therapy and trauma treatment. She is the lead editor, with co-editors Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of the newly released The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development and Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009). A DVD of her AEDP clinical work is available through APA's Systems of Psychotherapy Series. She teaches and practices in New York City.

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the former President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Social Sciences and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behavior and communication.

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Ron Frederick, Ph.D. is a psychologist, trainer, consultant, co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Minneapolis, and author of the bestselling book Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want (Jossey-Bass, 2009). He is also the clinical supervisor of Abbott Northwestern Hospital's Park House Day Treatment Program.

Kari Gleiser, Ph.D. is co-director of a recently opened trauma treatment and training center in Hanover, NH: The Center for Integrative Health. Dr. Gleiser specializes in applying AEDP to the treatment of complex trauma, dissociative disorders and personality disorders. She has written several clinical papers and book chapters and has presented at various national and international conferences.

Jerry Lamagna, LCSW is in private practice in Manhattan and New Jersey. He has extensive training in psychodrama, EMDR, ego state therapy and AEDP, which have inspired his integrating relational, intra-psychic, and experiential elements into his clinical work. Mr. Lamagna is co-developer of Intra-Relational AEDP -- an approach to treating trauma combining AEDP with internal work with dissociated aspects of self. He has presented at numerous conferences and written several papers on this approach.

Benjamin Lipton, LCSW is the supervisor of the AEDP Northwest Core Training, and of individuals and small groups in New York City, where he is in private practice. He leads AEDP workshops and trainings around the country and abroad. He and Diana Fosha recently co-authored "Attachment as a transformative process in AEDP: Operationalizing the intersection of attachment theory and affective neuroscience," which will appear in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration.

Candyce Ossefort-Russell, LPC is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor in private practice in Austin, TX. Candyce's therapeutic perspective emerges out of intensive life experience blended with rigorous training. She has actively lived, studied, and written about psychological and spiritual perspectives of suffering and transformation for over seventeen years.

SueAnne Piliero, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who has trained extensively in AEDP since 1999, and is also trained in Somatic Experiencing. She teaches and supervises individuals and groups in AEDP at various universities and hospitals throughout the greater metropolitan area. Her clinical interests are in trauma, posttraumatic stress, loss, and attachment-theory-informed psychotherapy. Dr. Piliero maintains a full-time private practice in New York City.

Natasha Prenn, LCSW is in private practice in New York City. Her interests include the effective use of self-disclosure, supervising and teaching AEDP to clinicians new to its practice, and applying AEDP to eating disorders. She is the author of “I second that emotion! Self-disclosure and its metaprocessing,” in Psychotherapist Revealed (Routledge, 2009) and “Mind the gap: AEDP interventions translating attachment theory into clinical practice,” (Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, in press).

Eileen Russell, Ph.D. is in private practice in NYC and is clinical faculty at NYU/Bellevue. Since 1996 she has studied, supervised, and taught AEDP locally and nationally, and is now writing about AEDP and awakening resilience in her forthcoming book: Restoring Resilience: Discovering Healing Through Transformative Therapy (Norton). Her other interests include: the process of change, integrating positive psychology into psychodynamic thinking, and the intersection of depth psychology, spirituality, and human existence.

Steven S. Shapiro, Ph.D. is in private practice in Philadelphia, where he specializes in working with personality disorders, adolescents, and psychiatric crisis. He conducts several AEDP training programs locally and nationally, and also presents seminars to mental health agencies on a variety of acute care psychiatric topics. For sixteen years, he was the Director of Psychology/Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service, an emergency psychiatric hospital serving both voluntary and involuntary patients.

Danny Yeung M.D. has been the lead AEDP trainer/supervisor for Toronto, Hong Kong and Beijing since 2005. The Rainbow After: Psychological Trauma and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, the first Chinese AEDP trauma treatment manual authored by Dr. Yeung and Mrs. Victoria Cheung, is currently in its second edition. Passionate about the transformative vision of AEDP, Dr. Yeung aims to proactively and supportively share AEDP internationally.

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