Karen Pando-Mars, MFT

Karen Pando-Mars, MFT is senior faculty at the AEDP Institute, has a clinical and consultation practice in San Anselmo, CA and teaches across the United States and internationally. She is known for her presence, warmth, and the clarity of her presentations. Videotapes of her clinical work are moving and inspiring examples of how AEDP®’s explicit relational and precise experiential practices can help patients heal rational trauma. As adjunct faculty at Dominican University, in San Rafael, California, she taught AEDP® as the overarching theoretical model in the Alternative and Innovative Psychotherapies course. Her publications include Tailoring AEDP Interventions to Attachment Style (2016), a chapter in Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0 (2021) APA press. She and Diana Fosha co-authored Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship (2025) Norton, NY.