Diana Fosha, PhD

Diana Fosha, PhD, the director of the AEDP Institute, is the developer of AEDP, a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psycho–therapeutic treatment. She is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and of numerous articles on healing transformational processes in experiential psychotherapy and trauma treatment.

Throughout her career, she has been interested in exploring different aspects of the change process. Her work on transformational studies has focused on integrating recent developments in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, emotion theory and developmentally-based understandings of the dyadic regulation of affect into clinical work with patients. Most recently, Diana Fosha has been exploring the role of positive affective experiences as wired-in somatic markers of precisely the kind of transformational processes that are involved in healing psychic suffering and in the fostering of flourishing and well-being.

A DVD of her AEDP work with a patient has been released by the American Psychological Association, as part of their Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series (APA, 2006).

Diana Fosha is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology of both NYU and St. Luke's/Roosevelt Medical Centers in NYC. She has done workshops, telecourses and trainings nationally and internationally. Outside of the US, she has taught and supervised extensively in Brazil, Denmark, and Italy. She teaches, supervises, and is in private practice in her beloved New York City, where she also leads an AEDP Core Training group.

For more information visit www.aedpinstitute.com.