Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

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.

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.

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.

I am a level 2 AEDP Therapist

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

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

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

My first training in AEDP was conducted by Diana Fosha, founder of AEDP, in 2006. I also completed essential skills one and two advanced courses, and became an assistant trainer in these courses from 2010 through 2016, and again recently in 2021.

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I am trained in and utilize Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy.

I am currently engaged in training with the AEDP institute.

"Undoing aloneness" is the central goal of AEDP, and that aligns with my treatment philosophy. I use AEDP to help my clients feel connected to and aware of what's going on inside themselves, to befriend and make space for what they find, and ultimately to enhance their ability to connect to others and cope with a world that can be downright scary.

I have some training in AEDP and Coherence therapy, via Tori Old's Minding the Heart groups that I studied with for several years. These approaches focus on making the implicit, explicit and creating lasting change.

We all have experienced trauma in our lives. Sometimes it's a big trauma and sometimes it's little traumas experienced over and over. We develop ways to cope with the difficult emotions and they help us survive at the time. The problem is that we outgrow the usefulness of these skills and the coping becomes stumbling blocks to experiencing emotions in healthy relationships. Together, we can identify these stumbling blocks, work to access emotions, and develop new healthy coping skills.

I have been studying and practicing AEDP since September of 2019 with the Finger Lakes AEDP Community. As I’ve grown more knowledgeable and comfortable with the approach, it’s become central to my practice.

We can't change the past, but we can change how we feel about the past. This form of treatment "makes neuroplasticity happen", meaning that we can actually use your brain to change your brain. AEDP safely works with emotional experiences in the here-and-now of the present moment from the understanding that we can heal and transform our life by leaning into our emotions instead of avoiding them.

I am trained in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) an effective form of empirically-supported psychotherapy that is experiential and highly relational. This modality efficiently helps client and therapist get to the heart of the issue.