Supporting your Emotional Journey through AEDP Therapy

Have you ever felt like people don’t know how to be there for you in the way that you need during a tough time? They might try to console you or to offer advice, but it somehow ends up making you feel alone. It’s hard to feel like your emotions aren’t being heard or understood by those you seek support from. My main priority in therapy is to help you feel less alone with your emotions. Through the therapeutic relationship, I can help you have a new emotional experience – one where your emotions will be held, nurtured, acknowledged, and seen for the first time.

What is AEDP Therapy?

AEDP, or Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy incorporates neuroscience, attachment theory, emotion theory, transformation studies, and body-focused approaches to help you process difficult emotions. In other words, AEDP helps you safely explore the depths of your emotions and enables you to better understand where any emotional difficulties may be coming from.

The main goal of AEDP is to help you experience the healing powers of connection. As humans, we are wired to connect. We seek connection with our caregivers as babies and as children, and we continue to seek connection with our loved ones as we grow. It is through these strong connections with others that we are able to effectively navigate life’s challenges. AEDP strives to increase your capacity for meaningful connection in your relationships, by not only being able to give care to others, but to be able to receive it as well.

How will AEDP help me grow?

A common approach to navigating tougher emotions like sadness, grief, anger, or rage, is to push them away or to suppress them. Eventually, these feelings build up inside of us and come out later in unhelpful ways. While it may seem easier to avoid tough emotions in the moment, it can be harmful to our minds and bodies long term. Through AEDP, I will help you build the capacity to tolerate challenging emotions and to safely access the real feelings that lie underneath your anxiety or your depression. Once you have learned these necessary skills and are able to incorporate them into your daily living, you will undoubtedly have the resiliency needed to weather life’s storms.