Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

AEDP was developed by Dr. Diana Fosha and borrows from many common therapeutic methods, including body-focused therapy, attachment theory, and neuroscience. The aim of AEDP is to help clients replace negative coping mechanisms by teaching them the positive skills they need to handle painful emotional traumas. Dr. Fosha’s approach is grounded in a creating a secure attachment relationship between the client and the therapist and the belief that the desire to heal and grow is wired-in to us as human beings. Think this approach may work for you? Contact one of TherapyDen’s AEDP specialists today to try it out.

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

— Jennifer Jackson, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oakland, CA

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.

— Herb Schnabel, Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in San Diego, CA
 

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

— Jennifer Jackson, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oakland, CA

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.

— Michael Germany, Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in Austin, TX
 

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

— Jennifer Jackson, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oakland, CA

I am a level 2 certified AEDP therapist.

— Amber Crable, Clinical Psychologist in West Lake Hills, TX
 

I am a level 2 AEDP Therapist

— Sherry Thomas, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Seattle, WA

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.

— Mackenzie Steiner, Psychologist in Austin, TX

AEDP Institute (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) / AEDP Level I

— Zane Shetler, Clinical Social Worker in Saint Louis, MO
 

AEDP heals trauma and helps to undo aloneness by championing the innate healing capacity of neuroplasticity in a safe, attached therapeutic relationship. Through moment-to-moment, sensation-focused, in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, AEDP helps clients recover their sense of self, increase resilience and improve relational closeness.

— Wendie Briggs, Student Therapist in San Diego, CA

I am level 1 AEDP therapist.

— Rachel Holtz, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
 

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

— Shae Cali, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Montclair, NJ

I do accerated therapies that dive deep to get you the results you want quickly.

— Adam Henderson, Psychiatrist in Belmont, MA
 

"AEDP seeks to clinically make neuroplasticity happen. Championing our innate healing capacities, AEDP has roots in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory and affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches, and last but not least, transformational studies.Through undoing of aloneness, through the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, as well as new transformational experiences, clinician fosters the emergence of new & healing experiences."

— Hannah Wolfe, Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Los Angeles, CA

Trained as a Level 1 AEDP therapist.

— Corinne Lofchie, Licensed Clinical Social Worker