Main description:

Aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is at the center of emotional suffering. Undoing aloneness is thus key to being able to process the emotions of trauma and reap the benefits of the adaptive resources that come with those emotions.

AEDP (accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy) is a healing-oriented, mind-body psychotherapy that seeks to put positive neuroplasticity into action, undo the client's aloneness, and cocreate a safe relationship as early in the therapeutic relationship as possible. Thus accompanied, and with the dyadic affect regulation of what formerly was too much to deal with, the client can process those overwhelming emotions.

Characteristic AEDP interventions include being on the lookout for glimmers of healing, undoing the client's isolation, and using metatherapeutic processing to work through the experience of transformation to systematically support the client's flourishing, resilience, and well-being.

Over the course of six therapy sessions, Dr. Diana Fosha demonstrates AEDP's intimate, moment-to-moment work with a client suffering from intense unresolved traumatic emotions. In their work together, Dr. Fosha helps the client not only experientially process negative emotions, she also uses metatherapeutic processing to systematically work with the client's positive emotions to make the most their potential.

AEDP has been described as a model of therapy that transforms emotional suffering into flourishing: We witness that in this 6-session therapy.