Asha Clinton

Asha Clinton (MSW, PhD) is the developer of Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), a depth-oriented energy-psychology method that emerged in the late 1990s.

A former Princeton professor who spent decades in full-time clinical practice, she trained across analytical (Jungian) psychology, expressive arts therapy, object relations, self psychology, and Sufi and Buddhist practice, then integrated these streams into a single trauma-focused system.

AIT works by having the client place their hands on a sequence of “energetic memory centers” — corresponding to the chakras or to major neural bundles along the body’s midline — while focusing on a triggering experience, so that its negative charge can be released.

In 2019 the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology recognized her with an award for outstanding contribution to the field. Clinton’s significance in the mind-power lineage is her fusion of depth-psychological understanding with energetic release.

Where many energy-psychology methods are technique-first and theory-light, AIT couples the hands-on clearing of a felt charge with an analytic account of trauma, the self, and spiritual development. By routing release through the chakra system, she explicitly weds an Eastern esoteric map of subtle-body centers to Western trauma therapy, treating the clearing of stored emotional energy as inseparable from the unfolding of the deeper self.