One of the most challenging aspects of life is its unpredictability. Unexpected events can significantly impact our lives, causing us to change direction or navigate new challenges. We can find resilience and hope in the face of adversity.

Growth and transformation can be potent in shaping our lives. Embracing change and new experiences can lead to personal growth and help us overcome obstacles and challenges.

Whether it's the courage to sort out relationship difficulties, try a different career path, or embrace a new perspective, growth and transformation can help us create a fulfilling life.

Life changes and transitions can be sources of complex emotional and relational experiences. When moving through overwhelming emotions alone, we often cannot process them fully.

Seeking a therapist who offers a corrective emotional experience can make all the difference. AEDP is a healing-oriented therapy that can help you sort out difficult life junctures. 

what is accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy?

AEDP, or Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, developed by Diana Fosha, is a transformative form of therapy. (see AEDP Institute)

AEDP helps you process the challenging emotional experiences often accompanying life's twists and turns. Most importantly, it supports the transformation of suffering into flourishing. 

AEDP recognizes that our emotions hold valuable information about our needs, desires, and experiences and that connecting to and therapeutic processing of these emotions can lead to healing and transformation.

how does aedp work?

In AEDP, the therapeutic relationship serves as a secure base that serves to help the client access and connect with their emotions in a safe and supportive environment.

As clients identify and label their feelings, they explore the underlying associated experiences and needs in the context of a supportive relationship, and they can feel the undoing of aloneness.

By connecting to their emotional experience, clients can understand their internal emotional landscape and gain insights into their thoughts, behaviors, and relationships.

Working with challenging emotional and relational experiences can result in the resolution of issues and in finding previously unknown, treasured aspects of yourself.

benefits of aedp

Through this process of connecting to emotions, AEDP aims to facilitate a process of transformation that leads to lasting change and healing.

Sorting out and healing painful emotional experiences can increase self-awareness, self-compassion, and a sense of empowerment.

Clients often report feeling more connected to their authentic selves and an expanded capacity to navigate life's challenges with resilience and grace.

emotion focus

AEDP is a model of therapy that emphasizes the importance of connecting to emotions to facilitate personal growth and transformation.

By helping clients understand and process their feelings, AEDP aims to help them gain insights into their experiences and needs and foster a holistic transformation process that leads to lasting change and healing.

By attending to the relationship with the client and the emotions that surface, AEDP works to heal attachment trauma. This transformational healing addresses interpersonal neurobiology that supports growth in our human need for relatedness.

holistic therapy

AEDP views transformation as a holistic process that involves not only the mind but also the emotions, body, and spirit. Emotions are not just mental experiences but embodied experiences that can have a physical impact.

While an AEDP session may include talk therapy and working with past experiences and painful emotions that the client cannot access alone, it has a 'here and now' somatic focus.

It is an inclusive therapy that supports creating an experience of change with emotionally safe experiences for the whole person.

The therapist looks through an attachment lens and helps the client to have a new and healthy experience. They support the client in connecting to their embodied emotions and experiences that may be healing and expansive.

AEDP aims to facilitate a deeper and more meaningful process of transformation that goes beyond merely symptom resolution to flourishing.

experiential work

AEDP is an experiential therapy because it involves active engagement and exploration. The therapist and client experientially work together to help access and process emotions in real time, providing support and guidance along the way.

In this right brain to right brain form of psychotherapy, work to undo aloneness in processing complex emotions occurs. 

theoretical underpinnings

AEDP draws from emotion theory and affective neuroscience, attachment theory, body-focused approaches, positive psychology, and transformational studies.

It is a relational therapy that understands the importance of corrective emotional experiences. And it supports the client's capacity for healing by understanding neuroplasticity and creating changes in the brain that last.

summary

Life isn't a straight line but a journey filled with growth and transformation. Embracing change and new experiences, finding resilience and hope in adversity, and discovering meaning and purpose can help you create a fulfilling life.

In transitional life experiences, it's too easy to bump up against trauma-associated emotions. AEDP can help you with the in-depth processing of difficult emotional experiences.

An AEDP therapist can help you transform your crisis and suffering into a renewed zest for life. 

This unique psychotherapeutic treatment draws from cutting-edge understandings of transformation and healing. It helps clients to transform emotional suffering into flourishing.

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Working with an AEDP therapist can be a transformational experience that allows you to flourish.

Give yourself the gift of AEDP therapy. Contact me today for a free 15 minute consulatation.