Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

AEDP is a powerful and innovative therapy that can help clients access and process difficult emotions, leading to deeper healing and growth.

I am currently engaged in training with the AEDP institute.

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.

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 focuses on healing-oriented techniques and aims to help you process difficult emotional and relational experiences.

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 have received post graduate training in AEDP through the AEDP institute.

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.

My current passion is AEDP, which is a modality informed by attachment theory and neuroscience that harnesses the power of the therapeutic relationship to undo aloneness and create lasting transformation for clients.

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.

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.

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.

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.