AEDP Therapy, also known as Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, developed by Diana Fosha, is one of the ways in which I work with individual clients. In accelerated experiential-dynamic psychotherapy, the ultimate goal is to help clients explore, excavate, and attune to the deeper feelings that are sometimes buried within, or that we have attempted for years, or a lifetime, to actively avoid. I teach clients how to begin to relate to their emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a different way, and with an open hands approach. AEDP is a form of psychotherapy based in attachment theory. It is an experiential process by which the therapist acts as a secure base for the client, and practices moment to moment tracking in the room in order to help clients access core feelings/states, and release emotions/experiences/traumas that have been avoided through defenses.

 

With its roots in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, and body focused approaches, AEDP is a type of emotional processing that I have found helps clients become reconnected with their own sense of self. I have had a client describe to me, after our work together, that he felt as if he now had a compass to guide him  and anchor him. I find that AEDP helps client's find that internal compass when they feel lost, disconnected, and unsure of themselves and their life path or decisions. Starting to pay attention to the feelings and what our bodies know, as opposed to just our thoughts, allows for a dropping down, a grounding, and leads to less reactivity, less anxiety, and more full lives/relationships. AEDP works with emotional depth processing to help client's change their narratives, not just from an intellectual thought based place, but from a felt place within. Neuroscience has shown that AEDP works with the attachment system to rewire our old neural networks that are keeping us stuck in old, self-defeating patterns. 

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Once clients gain the capacity to accept, hold, process, and truly deal with their emotions, good or bad, they are free. No longer beholden to, or solely focused and distracted on managing their messy emotions (either by becoming overwhelmed by them, or attempting to ignore them and push them down), client's can begin to notice the world around them, notice their emotions, neither negate/deny them or get lost in them, and make different choices that are not dictated by their temporary emotional states.

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My goal and want is to help you find your compass.