A.E.D.P.

Connected therapy for a connected life.

Relationship therapy in Boston and online across Massachusetts and North Carolina. 

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Feeling disconnected is painful.

Maybe you relate to:

  • feeling deeply misunderstood in your day-to-day life

  • lacking self-confidence and are highly critical of yourself

  • being unfulfilled in your relationships or have a history of being anxious or distant

  • having difficulty trusting and feeling safe

  • having trouble managing distressing emotions like anger or sadness 

  • people-pleasing or having trouble setting boundaries

  • experiencing abandonment, abuse, harsh parenting, adoption or other painful childhood or adult experiences

What is AEDP?

A.E.D.P. stands for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy.

AEDP therapy supports building secure attachment and safety through in-the-moment connected experiences with me, your therapist, to enrich your life beyond the therapy room.

AEDP fully involves your mind and heart to change the way you store experiences in your brain, thereby changing the way you experience yourself, your past and your relationships. While we are together, we will access experiences from the parts of your brain that feel stuck and painful to reprocess them for lasting change.

Let’s have a new experience. You won’t be alone now.

The core goal of AEDP is undoing aloneness.

In our work together, I’ll offer you the safe and secure relationship that you need to form more secure relationships, resolve symptoms of trauma and painful experiences as well as manage feeling overwhelmed by your emotions.

When you are open to receive the care, love and unconditional positive regard that you haven’t been able to receive elsewhere, it will accelerate your ability to embody your worth, confidence and desire to survive.

In our work together, we will:

  • Explore and take emotional risks with the comfort of the relationship being right there to support you. 

  • Actively engage, connect and process inside your experience

  • Gently handle fear, anger, shame, sadness, frustration and self-criticism

  • See the typically unseen and rare moments of you without judgment

In our sessions, you’ll notice us paying careful, comfortable attention to your facial expressions, tone of voice and body sensations. We will slow down and embrace the present moment and present emotional experience. You’ll witness us releasing bias and judgment of how you’ve protected yourself, tried to be loved or survived. You’ll experience yourself calling out and being warmly responded to. You will feel me being with you.

“It is hard to imagine how therapy could yield successful outcomes if there were no sense of warmth, attachment and care between clinician and client.”

Diana Fosha, Founder of AEDP

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What you can expect:

  • Embrace vulnerability, trust, safety and security

  • Shift attachment and relationship experiences 

  • Feel validated and understood 

  • Experience confidence and self-assuredness

  • Regulate and respond appropriately to emotion 

  • Be less impacted by trauma and negative memories 

Feel and be felt.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • AEDP therapy is a type of therapy that recognizes your past and present relationships greatly impact who and how you are, and uses our the therapeutic relationship to relieve your suffering and shift your future relationship experiences.

  • AEDP therapy is not traditional talk therapy. It is experiential therapy that involves talking, feeling, connecting and in-the-moment experiencing.

  • In AEDP you and I will create a secure base to explore your experiences and relationships to shift your patterns. From our secure relationship, you’ll be propelled by way of having created new neural networks to create and expand in new relational experiences.

Sub - Specialties

  • Adoption, kinship care and family of origin separation 

  • Childhood trauma and difficult experiences 

  • Anxious and avoidant adults with relationship concerns