BENEFITS OF AEDP
The central tenet underlying AEDP is an optimistic one: inside all of us lies an intrinsic ability to heal. An AEDP therapist will guide you to use abilities you already possess. The therapist also serves as a trusted attachment figure throughout the process of drawing those skills to the surface. You learns to heal yourself, making you more resilient and better able to tackle future adversity.
Rather than attempting to hide uncomfortable or difficult emotions, your therapist will guide you to face those emotions and deal with them. As your AEDP coach helps you tear down superficial defenses that mask emotions below the surface, you will grow more comfortable recognizing negative emotions. In doing so, you can stop fearing your feelings, and they lose some of the power they once held.
Some people worry that therapy will take years to have an effect. Fortunately, AEDP can usually enact positive changes quickly. A client who is treated using AEDP often starts to feel better after just a few sessions. In fact, one thing that motivated Fosha to develop AEDP was her frustration with how long psychoanalysis could take to improve a person’s life.
In addition to being quicker than traditional psychotherapy, AEDP is also an evidence-based approach that can be used to treat a variety of psychological conditions. The efficacy of AEDP is backed by years of quality research supporting its use as an effective treatment.
IN SUMMARY, THE BENEFITS OF AEDP INCLUDE ITS ABILITY TO:
heal many types of trauma, including attachment trauma
treat depression
restore confidence in one’s inborn ability to heal
improve insecure attachment patterns
build resilience to face difficult emotions
reduce symptoms over a short period of time
use a science-backed approach to treat trauma
What is AEDP Therapy?
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy or “AEDP” was created by Diana Fosha based on her conviction that people grow and heal more readily when their built-in resources and resilience are tapped. This approach is very different from therapy that focuses solely on what is going wrong in an individual’s life. Pain and suffering, of course, must be addressed in therapy. But as we work on our problems, positive emotions, healthy action tendencies, and metal clarity arise. Most therapy approaches don’t utilize these emergent positive feelings and experiences. This is a shame, because there is no better way to build resilience and create happiness than to give these earned positive experiences their due. If we stay with and process these positive, transformational experiences, they become internal resources that help us with the hard work of therapy and help us feel solid in facing the challenges that life holds. By deeply accessing emotion and really processing the positive and true feelings this creates, AEDP allows individuals to transform our lives rather than merely adjusting our thoughts or behaviors.
I am currently Certified AEDP provider with more than twenty years of experience. I prefer to use AEDP for individual therapy, particularly with those affected by trauma. Remember: you already have the skills you need to overcome trauma. My job is to show you how to make the most of those abilities.
If you live in California and are wondering if AEDP may be right for you, I encourage you to take the first step toward healing by contacting a qualified therapist at 1-530-650-5190.