Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

I have completed Level 1 Immersion training taught by Dr. Diana Fosha, the founder of AEDP. I have also taken additional training focused on using AEDP to help those who have experienced racialized trauma and relational developmental trauma (trauma from parents and family members during childhood).

I am an AEDP practitioner level 1. I combine this trauma informed modality with other approaches including Meaning Centered Psychotherapy, Prolonged Grief Treatment and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET).

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

I have done three trainings and am currently in the couples training for Aedp.