What is AEDP Therapy ?
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) is a healing-focused approach that helps people process deep emotions and heal from trauma and painful experiences. It’s built on the idea that we all grow and heal best in safe, supportive relationships.
AEDP helps people reconnect with their core emotions—like sadness, anger, fear, and joy—while also paying close attention to what’s happening in the body.
By gently exploring both feelings and physical sensations, clients can release stuck emotions and feel more grounded and whole.
Core Principles of AEDP
AEDP sessions often focus on moment-to-moment tracking of internal experiences.
I use interventions like dyadic regulation, affect labeling, and amplifying positive shifts to guide the client.
Attachment and Safety
creating a secure, emotionally attuned therapeutic relationship. The therapist is an active, empathic presence who helps the client feel safe and seen.
Transformational Change
AEDP views emotional processing as a path to deep healing.
It tracks moments of emotional breakthrough or integration, and uses them to reinforce change.
Experiential Focus
Rather than talking about feelings,
AEDP encourages fully experiencing and processing emotions in the moment, allowing transformation and healing.
Undoing Aloneness
Many emotional wounds stem from feeling alone in difficult experiences. AEDP seeks to "undo aloneness" by ensuring the therapist is emotionally present and attuned during emotional exploration.
Working with Emotions
Therapy helps clients move through defensive and inhibitory layers to access and process core emotions.
Metatherapeutic Processing
After a transformational experience,
using a reflection helps consolidate change and deepen the sense of healing.