Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

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 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.

I am a level 2 AEDP Therapist

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.

So many of our defenses - people pleasing, avoiding, self-judgment, worry, numbness, perfectionism - emerge as a direct result of us being unable to tolerate our core emotions, e.g. sadness, anger, fear, etc. AEDP is a psychotherapy modality through which I support clients in accessing their core emotions so that they can take authentic and empowered action in their lives. If you feel stuck, depressed, or anxious, AEDP supports you in opening up to yourself with courage and self-compassion.

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.

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.

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.

Specialized Treatment of Mental and Psychological Health Disorders We offer comprehensive, evidence-based treatment for mood, anxiety, personality, and psychotic disorders, as well as co-occurring impulse control disorders with long and sort term cornice and nun-cornice conditions. We have the expertise and specialized therapies to treat complex psychical and mental health disorders and the damaging behaviour they cause. Combining modern psycho dynamic, cbt, somatic psychology

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.

Training in this area includes supervision and participation in workshops; this is not my primary orientation, but my work is influenced by the research I have done and the practitioners I work and consult with.

I use the AEDP change triangle with clients to help them understand how unconscious defenses such as avoidance, sarcasm, and perfectionism as well as inhibitory emotions such as anxiety, shame and guilt get in the way of feeling their true feelings. Clients that experience AEDP report the initial nervousness around sitting in their feelings, eventually gives way to a open-hearted, confident self that makes this type of treatment so invaluable to them.

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.

AEDP supports building strong therapeutic relationships, and can support people in undoing the profound sense of aloneness they often have, due to past difficult experience endured without supportive attunement by caregivers. I am actively working on deepening my understanding of this modality and learning more all the time.

I utilize AEDP as a powerful relational approach to help undo the aloneness my clients often feel. This modality leverages the therapetuic relationship which is the most healing aspect of therapy. By implementing AEDP I am able to build strong, supportive, connected, and energetic relationhships with my clinets as well is help them build strong relationship with themselves.

AEDP seeks to create change through the undoing of aloneness that can occur from the consequences of the limitations of human relationships. AEDP has roots in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory, and body-focused approaches. The focus is to foster new and healing experiences and with these experiences, gain resources, resilience, and a renewed zest for life.

AEDP meshes beautifully with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach I use. By emphasizing the importance of moment-to-moment tracking of your experience, AEDP supports the deepening of your exploration and befriending of your inner world. Like IFS, AEDP is an experiential therapy, which means that rather than analyze your past to arrive at an intellectual understanding of why your feel as you do, we collaborate to help you have a fresh, healing experience within the therapeutic relationship.