Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

A good add-on to CBT, AEDP helps to anchor one's thoughts and beliefs in the here and now and to help make room for new beliefs and thoughts as they arise.

So many of our defenses - people pleasing, avoiding, self-judgment, worry, numbness, perfectionism - emerge as a direct result of us being unable to tolerate our core emotions, e.g. sadness, anger, fear, etc. AEDP is a psychotherapy modality through which I support clients in accessing their core emotions so that they can take authentic and empowered action in their lives. If you feel stuck, depressed, or anxious, AEDP supports you in opening up to yourself with courage and self-compassion.

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 received post graduate training in AEDP through the AEDP institute.

My professional training includes Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, a 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.

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, a form of therapy that is experiential, somatically based, relational, and healing oriented.

I am a level 2 AEDP Therapist

In my practice, I utilize Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) to foster profound healing and transformation. AEDP emphasizes the importance of experiencing emotional attachments that were missing or inadequate in earlier life stages. This approach helps clients tap into unprocessed emotional experiences, promoting healing through the exploration of these emotions in a secure, supportive environment. By harnessing the power of transformational experiences, AEDP helps client heal

Supervised by AEDP trained therapist in practice of AEDP while training in AEDP toward certification.

I teach you about emotions and how to identify the ones that give you golden nuggets of information, from the ones that distract you into an unhealthy pattern of shame and guilt. Also, we go back in time with inner allies and revisit old memories, only to experience them in a new light. Your therapy is experiential and memorable as a result of these tools.

I am a Certified Level One AEDP practitioner. This is an attachment-focused, transformative treatment theory and approach which focuses on experiential therapy.

AEDP is one of my main approaches to healing.

My primary therapeutic approach is called AEDP. This integrative approach combines modern understandings of interpersonal-neurobiology and attachment theory with tried-and-true experiential methods of psychotherapy. Using AEDP, we work together to understand the functions of distressing behaviors and the core beliefs driving anxiety, shame, and guilt. We work together to change these dynamics. Then we work together to nourish and grow your resilient, and very human, core self.

Certification and Advanced training in trauma-informed, relational and experiential emotion focused AEDP

Within the family of psychodynamic psychotherapies, another main area of focus of my training and career has been in AEDP, a relatively more targeted, time-sensitive and interpersonally focused treatment. AEDP addresses one of the main concerns of traditional psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapies, which is that of time and overall length of treatment, while providing a depth-oriented approach to a specific area of distress, interpersonal problems or set of symptoms.