Carole is a psychologist and certified psychiatric mental health nurse. In addition to a maintaining a private practice, she is founder and executive director of The Stern Center for Developmental Health, which serves six counties in estern Pennsylvania and provides in-home services for children and adolescents at risk for out-of-home placement. Carole specializes in trauma-related disorders and Reactive Attachment Disorders and has developed a specialized trauma and Reactive Disorder family-based program.

Carole is trained in traditional therapies including cognitive behavioral and Gestalt as well as mind-body therapies including biofeedback, Core-Somatics, Feldenkrais and Reike. She is also trained in EMDR, TFT, DX, EFT, and Theraplay.

Her passions are travel and world cultures, skiing, and quarter horses. She is based in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.

Greg was raised in South Hampton, Long Island, NY and graduated Union College in Schenectady NY with a BS. in mthematics and psychology and received MS and PhD in psychology from Rutgers University. 

He began full time teaching in 1975 at Wilson College and moved to Pittsburgh and Chatham College in 1979, the same year he became a licensed psychologist in PA and began a private practice where he established a mobile medical diagnostic company called Advanced Diagnostics in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. In the 1990s he studied  EMDR and proceeded to facilitate and teach with Francine Shapiro in major cities throughout the U.S.  He also conducted the first quantitative EEG studies of EMDR  and published a paper concerning the relationship of EMDR and hypnosis.  After studying with Roger Callahan, Fred Gallo and Greg began teaching a two part TFT curriculum that they designed. Later having evolved a simpler form of TFT, Thought Energy Synchronization Therapy, that had broader applications. They taught extensively in the United States and Canada and led a team of trainers including Victoria Britt, Sheila Bender and John Diepold.

Greg joined the ACEP board in 2001 serving first as membership director and later as director of research.  He advocated for certification in energy psychology in the early days of ACEP.s history and led the Certification Committee in the development and implementation of ACEP’s certification program.

Jim Klopman has been a successful manager and entrepreneur in the textile industry for 20 years. Then he took a mid-career retirement to spend more time with his family. That left him with free time to explore the wold of human energy systems. Jim believes organizations also have their own energy systems that reflect their success or failure. He is currently writing and researchiing what he has discovered.

Jim has been a board member for several years. His main responsibilities has been advising the AcEP presidents and board on management and organizational dynamics.

Jim is based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Debby Vajda is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Corvallis, Oregon.  She has been practicing energy psychology for ten years and is trained in TFT, EFT, TAT, BSFF, Allergy Antidotes, and NeuroModulation Technique, among others.  She is an ACEP certification consultant, a member of the Certification Committee, and is the certification coordinator.  She is also the developer and past-coordinator of the Energy Therapy Network of the Mid-Atlantic States.
 

Bob was appointed to the position of Executive Director in September of 2008. Prior to this he was on ACEP's Board of Directors for three years.  During that time he served as the Conference Director, as well as being heavily involved in many of ACEP's key initiatives.   Bob focused on improving many operational and financial aspects of ACEP.     

He is a licensed psychologist and coach in Haverford, Pennsylvania.  He is clinical member of AAMFT and an approved consultant for the ASCH.  He is author of Tools for Transforming Trauma (2002),  Posttramatic Stress Disorder: A Clinicians Guide (1991), We're No Fun Anymore: Helping Couples Cultivate Joyful Marriages Through The Power of Play (2011). From 1989-1996 he was president of the Institute for Advanced Clinical Training, where he organized 11 conferences on trauma, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Brief Therapy, training over 10,000 therapists. He is diagnostically trained in TFT. 

Bob has presented numerous workshops internationally on Ericksonian therapy and treating trauma, energy psychology as well as numerous workshops for businesses. He balances work with playing guitar in a rock-and-roll band.  He is based in Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Maria is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Ontario, Canada. She is trained in psychodynamic, cognitive, EMDR, and energy psychology therapies including EFT, Seemorg Matrix and TAT. She has developed her own model of intervention, AAL (Awareness-Acceptance-Letting go).

Maria works as a youth psychiatrist in student health services at Brock University in Ontario. She particularly enjoys practicing energy group psychotherapy. She lectures widely on energy psychology to parents, mental health professionals and psychology students at the university.

She is co-founder of the Niagara Stress and Trauma Clinic and the Niagara EMDR and Energy Psychology Professional Network. She designed early-intervention programs for infants and crisis intervention for children and adolescents. In addition to ACEP, she is a member of the Institute of HeartMath and ISSSEEM.  She is based in ST Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Melinda has been a healer in professional practice since 1987.  A born clairvoyant, her initial training in the energies came from within her family.  Ordained as a Buddhist Priest, Dr. Connor has trained as a clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist, drama therapist, massage therapist and in over twenty different styles of energy healing. Dr. Connor received her training as a research scientist at the University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine under Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Iris Bell.  A faculty member in the Holistic Health Studies certificate program at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada and Adjunct Professor at Everest College Online, Phoenix, AZ, Dr. Connor is the CEO of the National Foundation for Energy Healing and has a private healing practice in Arizona. She is the author of two books “See Auras!” and “Professional Practice for the Energy Healing Practitioner.”

John lives in Moorestown, NJ and is a NJ licensed psychologist in private practice with over 30 years of experience.  He is a Member of the American Psychological Association, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management and a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is also a Member, and past Executive Board Member, of the New Jersey Psychological Association, and a Past President of the South Jersey Psychological Association.  In addition, John has been a long-time member of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH).

John initially studied Thought Field Therapy (TFT) with Dr. Fred Gallo, and then with Dr. Roger Callahan. He has also studied with Dr. John Diamond.  In 1998 John authored and introduced Touch And Breathe (TAB) as an alternative treatment approach (in lieu of tapping) with TFT, EFT and other meridian based psychotherapies.  He has contributed to the theoretical formulation regarding the effectiveness of these approaches, and has introduced the concepts of Frequency Resonance Coherence, Elaters and “in-orders”, Harmonizers, and the Emotional Signaling Mechanism. John is the lead author of Evolving Thought Field Therapy: The Clinician's Handbook of Diagnoses, Treatment, and Theory (Diepold, Britt, and Bender; 2004).  He also authored Thought Field Therapy: Advancements in theory and practice, which appears as the lead Chapter in Energy Psychology and Psychotherapy (Ed., F. Gallo; 2002).  John has recently co-authored “Thought field therapy and QEEG changes in the treatment of trauma: A case study” (Diepold & Goldstein, 2009; Traumatology, March 2009, vol. 15: pp 85-93).

John’s latest interest is the development of Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT) that merges traditional psychotherapy principles with heart energy and learning from 16 years of using energy psychotherapy approaches. A book on HAT is currently in progress.  John has been training and supervising licensed mental health care providers in the US and in Europe for 13 years. 

John is a life-long student of healing, consciousness and energy medicine/energy psychology. He holds a master’s level certification in NLP, with additional training in EFT, TFT, EMDR, HBLU, Seemorg Matrix Work, Focussed Expressive Therapy, acupuncture detox, and other techniques. 

John is a former radio talk-show host, editor of an alternative monthly, and volunteer mediator. He has taught seminars in EFT and related topics throughout the U.S. and in Europe. He is a long-time meditator, and a student of Tibetan Buddhism and A Course In Miracles.  John makes his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he enjoys hiking, reading and playing piano.

Mandi’s journey in the mental health field has led her through many service lines with multiple roles. Mandi has provided direction to clinical and administrative directors in residential, in home and outpatient mental health facilities. A Certified Trainer in Functional Behavioral Assessment in Pennsylvania with an emphasis on Autism Spectrum Disorder treatment planning, she currently oversees a large Autism Spectrum Disorder practice.

Originally trained in EMDR and TFT Test Dx TM to treat trauma, Mandi has been using a variety of energy modalities with children, adolescents and adults, across settings for many years.   Mandi’s true passion lies in these modalities.

Mary is an Oregon therapist, trainer, consultant, and writer. Her training includes expressive therapies, eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) Part II and many energy psychology models. She develops work which combines her background in human and child development, addictions, play therapy, the sacred feminine with the energy psychotherapies. She has been on the board of the Northwest Addictions Studies Institute, Oregon Play Therapy Association, co-founded the Northwest Play Therapy Institute and the Dynamic Energetic Healing® Institute. She loves to write, walk, develop community, travel, and participate in her children and grandchildren's lives.

Mary is based in Salem, Oregon. To learn more about her work, visit www.onedynamicenergetichealing.org.

Lynn is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Roswell, Georgia. In addition to her general practice, she specializes in the treatment of severe trauma, including Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. She has extensive experience in the training of other clinicians in both conventional and alternative approaches to treatment and has given numerous presentations in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. Her favorite topics include ways to combine energy psychology with the best of traditional therapy, especially in the treatment of trauma.

Phil Mollon qualified in clinical psychology at Leeds University in the UK in 1976. He subsequently trained in psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, qualifying in 1985. Later, he trained as a psychoanalyst with the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He is the author of ten professional books, on a range of psychoanalytically oriented topics, including shame, trauma, dissociation, and self-psychology. Over the last ten years he has been immersed in the study and development of energy psychology approaches. His most recent book is Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy, exploring the interface between energy psychology and psychoanalytic perspectives. He is a Diplomate and Certification Consultant for ACEP. Through his background in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, he has been able to introduce many of those in more traditional fields to the possibilities of energy psychology. He works in psychiatric settings within the British National Health Service, as well as privately.

Betsy Muller is  a holistic business coach, certified energy health practitioner, certified energy coach, and speaker.  Her company, The Indigo Connection LLC, is dedicated to providing women and holistic entrepreneurs with coaching for prosperity, application of spiritual leadership principles and health-enhancing energy balance tools.  She is an accomplished practitioner and teacher of EFT.   Her passion is integrating positive energy and spiritual healing into real world life and business applications. 

After decades working in a variety of traditional business and health care management settings, life changed in 2001 when she discovered energy psychology techniques at a conference in Switzerland. Since then, her passion has been to help others enjoy balanced and purposeful lives by integrating energy modalities into life and business applications.

Betsy’s work experience has included group medical practice management, healthcare sales & marketing, human resources, government affairs, real estate planning, wellness education, financial management and biochemical research & development.  Past employers include PPG Industries, Southwest General Health Center, BP Oil Company and OsteoMed II/New Medical Awareness Seminars, (Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s medical practice and related products/seminars).

Betsy earned a BA in chemistry  and an MBA in systems management.  She is a certified medical office manager and an ordained minister. She makes her home in Strongsville, Ohio.

George is a licensed clinical psychologist and for the past decade served as Chairman of Psychology, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California.  He has been in private practice for over thirty years specializing in mind/body techniques, psychotherapy/coaching, and hypnotherapy.  In addition to traditional tools, EMDR and clinical hypnosis, he uses a wide range of EP techniques.  He is a Fellow and a Certified/Approved Consultant of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and Past-President of the San Diego Society of Clinical Hypnosis.  He taught at the University of Minnesota and presently at the University of California, San Diego.