Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

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

If you feel emotionally stuck, or as if you are living "on the surface" of experiences, AEDP is a caring way to helping you to expand and understand your emotional life. We will work on noticing patterns that maintain emotional patterns that don't work for you, and give you space to try new ones. AEDP is a great way to approach working on the adult impact of early life attachment traumas and issues related to family of origin. I am a Level 1 clinician, currently pursuing Level 2.

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

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 am a level 2 certified AEDP therapist.

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

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'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 is my primary approach to therapy. AEDP practitioners believe that trauma happens when a person has to face overwhelming emotions without adequate support. We believe that helping people “undo their aloneness” in supportive, gentle ways can facilitate healing and transformation. AEDP is relational and attachment-focused (uses the relationship of the client and counselor heavily), experiential (focuses on experiences rather than stories/talk therapy), and somatic (uses the body).

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

(AEDP) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on healing-oriented techniques and aims to achieve a transformation in client behavior by exploring the in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences.

Emotions can be scary and often we struggle to identify them. Our emotions can also have important messages for us. I work with an integrated range of styles including helping you identify what may be preventing you from engaging with life the way you, focusing on this, and working hard to change these patterns. Together we can address skills, information, practice, communication, and anything else we decide.

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.

AEDP is rooted in psychoanalysis with a focus on emotions and processing them through your body to move through past experiences and unearth new patterns and ways of being.

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

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.