My Approach to Therapy: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

What Is AEDP?

AEDP stands for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. It’s a big phrase, but at its heart, it’s a gentle therapy that helps you feel your feelings in a safe way, so you can heal emotional pain and reconnect with who you truly are.

It helps people who:

• Struggle with feeling overwhelmed

• Have a hard time being alone

• Lose themselves in relationships

• Carry pain from childhood or past relationships

• Can’t stop thinking “What’s wrong with me?”

AEDP can help you feel what’s underneath, and finally release it.

Why Do I Always Feel So Much?

When you grow up feeling unsafe, unseen, or like love had to be earned, your body can hold onto those early wounds. You might have learned to:

• Stay quiet to keep the peace

• Overgive to feel worthy

• Hide your feelings to avoid being “too much”

Over time, your nervous system gets stuck in a “survival mode.” You may feel anxious all the time, emotionally exhausted, or like you’re barely holding it together. AEDP helps calm your nervous system so you don’t have to live in constant fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

What Happens in AEDP?

In session, we slow everything down.

Here’s what we do together:

• Build trust: So you feel calm, not alone, and not judged

• Find the real feelings: Not just what’s on the surface, but the deeper hurt underneath

• Let the feelings move: Not talk them away, but feel them together, slowly, and gently

• Feel relief: When the emotion releases, your body softens. You can feel lighter, clearer

• Reconnect to your true self: The part of you that’s strong, soft, worthy, and wise

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