Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

My professional training includes Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, a form of therapy that is experiential, somatically based, relational, and healing oriented.

AEDP allows clients to undo feelings of aloneness, process emotions fully from the sensations they evoke to the meaning behind them, and develop a felt sense of transformation and connection to one's core self. It is my primary therapeutic modality.

My professional training includes Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, an evidence based integrated form of therapy that is experiential, somatically based, relational, and healing oriented.

I have trained in an array of psychodynamic approaches, but found my home in Diana Fosha's AEDP (an attachment, emotion-focused, experiential approach that seeks to identify and relinquish defensive obstacles to healing). I regularly completed trainings from 2007-2011, including her immersion course and 2 complete years of the intensive "Core Training Program". I was so invested I was a member of a group of therapists seeking to make Austin a "Third Coast" training hub.

My professional training includes Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, a form of therapy that is experiential, somatically based, relational, and healing oriented.

I've been working with AEDP since the beginning of my training in 2021. I also do monthly consultations with an AEDP expert Ben Medley. I find AEDP especially useful in explorations of queerness, gender, and grief.

AEDP is a relational, emotion-focused, experiential psychotherapy that can help you process emotions at a deep level in order to find relief and increase your sense of connection with yourself and others. We will help you identify what is *right* with you and the glimmers of transformance in your life that you may not even be aware of.

I am level 1 AEDP therapist.

I utilize AEDP as a powerful relational approach to help undo the aloneness my clients often feel. This modality leverages the therapetuic relationship which is the most healing aspect of therapy. By implementing AEDP I am able to build strong, supportive, connected, and energetic relationhships with my clinets as well is help them build strong relationship with themselves.

I have been utilizing AEDP in my practice for 3 years. AEDP Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) is a form of talk therapy that aims to help people overcome trauma, loss, or other serious emotional challenges. Drawing on attachment theory, body-focused approaches, and other related disciplines, AEDP posits that humans are wired for resilience and have an inborn ability to cope.

AEDP is rooted in psychoanalysis with a focus on emotions and processing them through your body to move through past experiences and unearth new patterns and ways of being.

I use the AEDP change triangle with clients to help them understand how unconscious defenses such as avoidance, sarcasm, and perfectionism as well as inhibitory emotions such as anxiety, shame and guilt get in the way of feeling their true feelings. Clients that experience AEDP report the initial nervousness around sitting in their feelings, eventually gives way to a open-hearted, confident self that makes this type of treatment so invaluable to them.

AEDP is an emotion focused approach to psychotherapy that understands suffering as rooted in aloneness and disconnection. A therapy relationship offers a safe haven and secure base where transformational healing can occur. Through the undoing of aloneness in the therapy relationship, and through the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, new and healing experiences are fostered and with them, resources, resilience and a renewed zest for life.