Attachment
The therapeutic relationship becomes part of the work. Feeling accompanied rather than alone with difficult emotions can itself be a new experience.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
AEDP helps us move from talking about emotion to experiencing it safely.
AEDP is an attachment-focused, experiential approach that emphasizes undoing aloneness and helping people access the emotions and capacities that support healing.
What might AEDP feel like in therapy?
Rather than staying only at the level of analysis, I may invite you to slow down and notice what is happening inside as we talk: an emotion, a physical sensation, an impulse, an image, or what it is like to feel connected to another person.
We also pay close attention to the ways you protect yourself from experiences that once felt unsafe—without shaming those defenses. The pace is collaborative.
Core emotions
We make room for emotions such as sadness, anger, joy, tenderness, pride and love when they can be experienced safely and productively.
Transformation
We notice and deepen experiences of relief, strength, compassion, connection and agency so that change is not only understood intellectually.
My broader approach
AEDP is a central influence in my work, alongside attachment-based, relational, strengths-based, trauma-focused and somatic approaches. I have advanced AEDP training and am a Level 3 AEDP therapist.
No single model replaces the needs of the individual person in front of me. We use these frameworks in service of understanding your experience and creating a therapeutic relationship that feels safe, supportive, and collaborative.