Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

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.

I am a level 2 AEDP Therapist

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.

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.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a therapeutic approach that aims to facilitate deep emotional healing by harnessing the power of transformative emotional experiences within the therapeutic relationship. AEDP integrates elements from attachment theory, affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches, and experiential therapies.

I am currently engaged in training with the AEDP institute.

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.

I am a certified AEDP supervisor and therapist trained by AEDP founder, Dr. Diana Fosha

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 training in AEDP and am currently a Level II therapist. AEDP allows me to integrate what I believe about attachment and neurobiology into the therapy work, as these are pillars of the approach. While I am new to studying interpersonal neurobiology as a standalone approach, AEDP incorporates a lot of the material. I have a strong grounding in attachment, as I have taught, presented on, and worked within areas related to parenting, caregiving, and working with young people.