27th International Energy Psychology Conference 2025

Lori Chortkoff Hops, PhD

Lori Chortkoff Hops, PhD, DCEP, is a licensed psychologist, certified Logosynthesis practitioner and teacher, Reiki master, and former president of ACEP. She teaches online courses on intuition, grounding and centering. Lori features energy practices in her podcast "Healing Tips from the Heart: Intuition with Helpers, Healers, and Guides."

John Diepold Jr., PhD, DCEP

John Diepold Jr., PhD, DCEP, is a licensed psychologist in NJ, life-status member of APA, a long-time member of the NJPA and SJPA, and an ACEP member since its inception. John created the Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT) method, is a published author and has presented nationally and internationally, including workshops on HAT in the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Robert Schwarz

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, ACAP-EFT, has been a licensed psychologist for over 35 years. He was the executive director of ACEP for 17 years. Bob has organized over 30 conferences on Ericksonian hypnosis, trauma treatment, and energy psychology, ACEP’s Science of Energy Healing online programs and ACEP’s EFT training program. He has authored 3 books, including: Tools for Transforming Trauma, one of the first books on trauma to include energy psychology. Bob has taught internationally on energy psychology, trauma, and Ericksonian hypnosis. 

Fred Gallo, PhD, DCEP

Fred Gallo, PhD, DCEP, is an energy psychology pioneer and author of numerous articles, manuals, and nine books. He is the author of Energy Psychology, Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods, Energy Tapping for Trauma, and The Tapping Techniques Toolbox. He has presented worldwide on energy psychology and has certified several thousand professionals in his Advanced Energy Psychology.

Scarlett Lewis

Scarlett Lewis founded the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement after losing her six-year-old son in the Sandy Hook tragedy. She, along with education and psychology experts, developed the Choose Love Movement, a comprehensive social-emotional development program offered at no cost to schools, homes, and communities worldwide. Her evidence-based curriculum, now implemented in all 50 states and 120+ countries, equips educators and students with tools to build resilience, connection, and emotional intelligence.

Robert Moss

Robert Moss has been a dream traveler since doctors pronounced him clinically dead in an Australian hospital when he was three years old. He created the School of Active Dreaming, his original synthesis of modern dreamwork and ancient shamanic journeying practices. Robert has led popular workshops globally, including a three-year training for Active Dreaming teachers and online courses for the Shift Network. Robert is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and scholar. His many books on dreaming, shamanism, and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois and Growing Big Dreams. Robert has lived in upstate New York since he received a message from a red-tailed hawk under an old white oak. 

Jessica Dibb

Jessica Dibb is the founding director of Inspiration Consciousness School, co-director of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance, and author of Breathwork and Psychotherapy: Clinical Interventions for Healing and Transformation. For several decades, Jessica has designed and facilitated workshops grounded in integrated models of embodied psychospiritual healing and development to support wholeness, self-actualization, and love. She developed and teaches a rigorous 1500+ hour training over 4+ years to certify integrative breathworkers.

Michael DeMolina, PhD

Michael DeMolina, PhD, ACEP's lead EFT trainer, has operated Wisdom Traditions, an integrative behavioral health clinic for 20 years, and runs a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program for trauma-informed care. Founder of the Wisdom Training Institute, he offers internationally recognized certification courses for life coaches and therapists through the Society of NLP.

Alice Lee, MD, ABIHM

Alice W. Lee, MD, ABIHM, is a holistic child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist who integrates functional and energy medicine in her approach to helping her patients avoid psychiatric medications or taper them safely. With over 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and 22 years as a holistic psychiatrist, her practice has attracted patients throughout the United States and internationally. Alice's medical practice is dedicated to helping individuals to stop being patients and to maximize their creative freedom. 

Melanie McGhee, LCSW

Melanie McGhee, LCSW, merged expertise from decades of practice and study to develop Acceptance and Integration Training® (AAIT™) and teaches the model to healing arts professionals. She founded the Alliance for Integrated Awareness dedicated to ensuring all therapists have access to advanced mental health training.

Jennifer Groebe, LCSW

Jennifer Groebe, LCSW, is a highly skilled clinical social worker, trainer and provider of continuing education for mental health, nursing, health and aging professionals. Jennifer integrates psychology with spiritual awareness and practice to help others effect change with a gentle psycho-spiritual approach to healing. She is passionate about educating members of underserved and diverse populations.

Carol Look

Carol Look is a psychotherapist, founding EFT master, international speaker, and best-selling author of The Yes Code. She combines her traditional training as a psychotherapist with clinical hypnosis and advanced applications of EFT for unprecedented client results. Known for her laser-like focus and state-of-the-art approach, Carol has used EFT for over 25 years to help clients release their limiting beliefs and emotional conflicts so they can enjoy lives of exceptional success and fulfillment. Carol is a world-renowned EFT workshop presenter and has taught workshops globally. She is a regularly featured energy medicine expert on leading global telesummits and in the field’s leading documentaries. 

Adriana Popescu, PhD

Adriana Popescu, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and empowerment coach with over 25 years of treatment experience. She specializes in treating addiction, co-occurring disorders, and trauma, and has directed several treatment programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Adriana has written several books and hosts a podcast called Kaleidoscope of Possibilities – Alternative Perspectives on Mental Health.

Kate Hawke, MA

Kate Hawke, MA, director of the Trauma Transformation Network, has extensive personal and professional experience with both energy psychology and psychedelics. She has been a member of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies since the 1980’s and organized the first International Energy Psychology Conferences.

Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA

Lori Leyden, PhD, is a trauma healing expert and visionary spiritual mentor. She has been called in to work with traumatized communities who have experienced genocide, war and school shootings. She is an Evolutionary Leaders Circle member and Evidence Based EFT master trainer.

Lucie Monroe, LMHC, MA

Lucie Monroe Holistics Counseling

Lucie Monroe, LMHC, MA in clinical mental health counseling with a trauma specialization. She is certified in psychedelic therapy and research, and practices psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA. Lucie is an ACEP member and Advanced EFT Practitioner.

John Stuart Reid

John Stuart Reid is an acoustic physics researcher. He has studied the physics of sound for four decades and is a respected authority in the field of cymatics. He is one of only two people to have studied the acoustics of the Great Pyramid and in 1997 he conducted a series of ground-breaking experiments in the pyramid’s King’s Chamber, which led him to invent the CymaScope instrument, a new type of device that makes sound visible. Having experienced a significant healing of his lower back during his acoustics study of the Great Pyramid, John began research into the field of sound healing, which continues to the present day. 

Steven Fenwick, PhD, LMHC

Steven Fenwick, PhD, LMHC, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Olympia, WA specializing in the integration of energy psychology and process-oriented psychology. He has been using sound healing methods in his practice for many years, and is certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy from Naropa University. 

David Gruder, PhD, DCEP

ACEP co-founder and first president, David Gruder, PhD, DCEP, is a 12-award-winning clinical and organizational development psychologist. He provides keynotes, training programs, consulting, mentoring, and facilitation in making integrity profitable, leaders elevated, collaborators productive, happiness purpose-based, and cultures healthy. His latest project: The Center for Enlightened Self-Sovereignty.

Pam Altaffer, LCSW

Pamela Altaffer, LCSW has been a psychotherapist for 30 years. She specializes in relationships and sees clients from around the world. Pamela has been using energy psychology for over 20 years. She is a co-creator of Ask and Receive and presents internationally. Pamela is past president of ACEP.

Thomas Altaffer, MSW

Thomas Altaffer, MSW is a psychotherapist, life coach, author and international trainer. He is the co-creator of Ask and Receive as well as the developer of several other mind/body therapies including Releasing Through Love and Higher States Therapy.

Kathryn Munden, DipPsych

Kate Munden, DipPsych, specializes in trauma recovery techniques, particularly for narcissistic emotional abuse. An EFTi trainer/mentor, she also served as exec board director at EFT Intl.  Kate is co-founder of Heart Assisted Tapping, chair of the TRE® UK Association, and a TRE® Trainer. She is in private practice online and in London.

Brent Baum, SSL, LISAC

Brent Baum, SSL, LISAC is an internationally recognized author, lecturer, and interdisciplinary specialist with expertise in traumatology, addictionology, spirituality and archaeology. He is the developer of Holographic Memory Resolution and is a licensed substance abuse counselor for the state of AZ.

Sandra Radomski, ND, MSW

Sandra Radomski, ND, MSW is a social worker and naturopathic doctor. She is the creator of Allergy Antidotes as well as co-creator of Ask and Receive. Sandi received the ACEP award for major contributions to the field for 2015.

Daniel Siegel, MD

Daniel Siegel, MD, is the founding co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and founder and director of Education of the Mindsight Institute. With numerous bestsellers and a professional series of textbooks, he is a leading voice in interpersonal neurobiology, shaping minds worldwide with wisdom and compassion.