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.

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.

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

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.

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

- Have completed post-graduate training in AEDP

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

A mindful and relational approach to therapy. We focus on building the capacity to be with feelings that help you understand yourself and where you get stuck. It helps us unwind limiting habits, process trauma, and enhance strengths and resilience.

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.

"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."

I’m using AEDP, I utilize the therapeutic relationship to help clients create a safe environment to experience their emotions fully to reduce suffering.

I have completed multiple trainings with the AEDP Institute.

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

I use AEDP techniques to process our defenses and avoidance of emotion to experience all that our emotional life is trying to communicate to us. When we process our emotions fully we come out stronger and more clear about what we need.