AEDP™ Institute Bulletin Board

Dear AEDP Community,

The Education Committee writes today to announce the appointment of our newest AEDP™ Institute Faculty member, Sigal Bahat, MA.

As part of this announcement, we have shared Diana’s letter welcoming Sigal aboard. The letter from Diana to Sigal, below, describes some of the many contributions she has made to date to both the AEDP model and to the AEDP community.

To learn about the process for becoming Faculty, see the notes* below Diana’s letter.

Please read Diana’s welcome letter and join us in congratulating and welcoming Sigal into our wonderful, accomplished, dedicated and growing group of Institute Faculty.

dear Sigal,

on behalf of the Education Committee (formerly known as TeachAEDP Committee), the Steering Committee, the AEDP Institute and myself, it is with great pleasure that i welcome you to the Faculty of the AEDP Institute. it is a pleasure to envision “Sigal Bahat, AEDP Institute Faculty member” as part of your e- signature.

the Education Committee, in recommending a decisive ‘YES’ in response to your application to become Faculty, led with an acknowledgment of your “qualities of presence and authenticity, coupled with [your] expertise in AEDP.” the Education Committee also singled out the following: “Sigal’s commitment to creating a supportive environment for non-English-speaking participants and her leadership role as the Israeli AEDP Ambassador (in the past) reflect her deep commitment to supporting the AEDP community globally”

your gifts, personal qualities and contributions to the AEDP model and to the AEDP Institute are extraordinary and unique. we wish to recognize the contributions you have made to AEDP, to the growth and rigorous development of AEDP in Israel; and we want to recognize your true passion for and commitment to AEDP in many of its manifestations:

— your giftedness as an AEDP clinician and practitioner, and the depth and integrity of your clinical AEDP work
–your deep and abiding love of AEDP and passionate belief in the model
— your “fierce commitment to the integrity of the AEDP model, especially as it relates to Level assignments and Certification and to the AEDP Institute’s practices and policies that support that integrity.” (from one of your letters of recommendation in support of your Faculty application)
— the depth of your theoretical grasp of AEDP and how it lives in you in an embodied fashion
— the richness of training in body-focused, movement and somatic approaches that you bring to AEDP
— your sophisticated understanding of the body as a resource and of the somatic portal as a deep resource for AEDP experiential work, and embodied therapeutic presence
— your skillful and effective teaching,
— your cutting-edge work incorporating demos in your teaching
— your tireless devotion to the AEDP community in Israel and to maintaining the highest standards in that community
— the remarkable quality of your teaching, widely acknowledged by both participants and EAs, of both ES1 modules and the specialized ASM module on the somatic factor in AEDP
— the desire of many in our community to learn from you and the deep valuing to what you bring to AEDP as your ASM ion The Use of the Somatic Portal in AEDP was met with enthusiasm and appreciation by participants
— your involvement in the 16-session AEDP research project, as therapist contributing several cases, including a couple of extraordinary cases with extremely difficult patients
— your participation in presentations at SEPI conferences on those 16-session AEDP model
— your openness and responsive to feedback in working with our Amin staff, and desire for collaboration

we are honored and delighted to invite you to join the Faculty of the AEDP Institute as our newest Faculty member and look forward to working with you in all the different capacities of that position. we especially look forward to your future contributions, especially in the area of embodiment and relational somatic integration work, and the use of the body and of the “somatic portal” as a rich resource in the therapeutic encounter to our ever emergent AEDP model.

it is a deep pleasure to welcome you aboard, dear Sigal

Diana
on behalf of
The Education Committee of the AEDP Institute
The Steering Committee of the AEDP Institute
and
of myself, as Director of the AEDP Institute

*The Institute recently revised the way people become Faculty. Until 2023, individuals had to be invited to become faculty and invitees were approved by all other faculty. Starting two years ago, supervisors have been invited to apply to become Adjunct Faculty, and starting in 2023, Adjunct Faculty may apply to become Faculty.

For Adjunct Faculty to qualify to apply for a Faculty position, they must meet many requirements including completion of a number and variety of “successful” ES1 presentations (success = being highly regarded by mentor and participants), very high proficiency as an AEDP clinician, AEDP and general teaching experience beyond ES1, community involvement and commitment, plus a multitude of personal attributes and recommendations and feedback all submitted and reviewed by the Education Committee. To see the Faculty application go here.

Meeting the requirements is very challenging and applying is not for the faint of heart. We are so pleased that Sigal has met and exceeded these requirements and so excited to welcome her into the Faculty community.

Kari Gleiser and I are delighted to announce that Gabriela Pessoa Mendes of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is now an AEDP Certified Supervisor.

Gabi brings an embodied AEDP presence to her work as a supervisor. AEDP lives in Gabi. With each supervisee she brings a presence of safety, openness, curiosity, and care as she is genuinely deeply interested in her supervisees and their development. Through being seen and heard, her supervisees have a transformative experience which facilitates supervisee’s self-at-best and therapist-at-best to emerge. Working experientially with supervisees, Gabi enables supervisees to have an experience of themselves that transforms their work with patients.

Kari Gleiser writes, “Gabi has been a pillar of the Brazilian AEDP community and will continue to offer her open heart, her wise mind, her caring guidance as a certified supervisor. Gabi is deeply committed to helping others learn and practice AEDP, while also growing into their best selves. Her generosity of spirit shines through as she shows up fully to help her supervisees stretch their clinical abilities, their emotional/relational growth edges and their receptive capacities. I’m thrilled that Gabi is joining the ranks of AEDP certified supervisor!”

In the words of her reviewers:

“Gabriela brings deep kindness, authenticity, and skill to this work. She demonstrates how she engages and promotes the growth of the whole person, clinically and personally. Gabi brings the model to life for her supervisees, giving them an in vivo bottom-up experience, somatically, emotionally, and cognitively. Gabriel’s supervisees are extremely fortunate to have her as a teacher and a mentor. I am sure that her relationships with them support great personal as well as clinical growth and healing.”

In Gabriela’s own words: “I’m feeling fulfilled, grateful, excited and heart open to the new that’s coming.”

Please join Kari and me in welcoming Gabi to the growing community of AEDP Certified Supervisors.

You can reach her at gpessoam@gmail.com

Bob Yip AEDP Certified Supervisor Announcement

On behalf of Ms. Esther Poon (AEDP Adjunct Faculty) and myself, it is our honour and privilege
to share with you that Mr. Bob Yip Mang Sau has received a “total pass” for his “lovely work” in
becoming an AEDP Certified Supervisor.

Please note the shimmering comments from the reviewers of Mr. Yip’s supervisor certification
paper:

Reviewer 1:
I am struck by Bob!s earnest striving and love of the model that he clearly communicates to his
supervisees. What comes across in his paper are his efforts to embody the model in supervision,
such that supervisees have an experience of AEDP. The excerpts of moments with his supervisees
show his care towards them and their clients and understanding of the AEDP model. I am so
glad the larger community will now be able to learn from him as a Certified Supervisor.

Reviewer 2
Bob Yip is a definite pass on his supervisor certification. His paper is a marvelous, thoroughly
metaprocessing (his word) of his journey of becoming a supervisor. He covers his key learnings
up front – in which he identifies how supervision is a relational and experiential process and how
that leads to transformation and growth in the therapist/supervisee which ripples to the therapist/supervisee’s clients. He also identifies how to situate the experiential and relational work within the overall theory of AEDP and begins with breaking the work with supervises into four
states, showing examples of how working with the supervisee in each of the four states con-
tributes to their learning by meeting them where they are.

His transcripts of sessions provide poignant examples of his process of supervising, helping a
supervisee to see something in a bottom-up way – or how to challenge a supervisee who is missing key aspects of the work with their client. His gentle, non-shaming yet firm direction comes across as supportive and helpful. His use of affirmation and acknowledgement is celebratory and delightful in guiding supervisees whose work is unfolding on track. Bob’s sensitivity to the process of learning AEDP integrates learning and applying the model of AEDP to the supervision process and his paper is chock full of citations to bolster his perspective. which feels very integrated and inspiring. Bob’s supervisees are lucky to have someone who has clearly given a lot of time and preparation to cultivate his AEDP supervisor self.

For those who may be unfamiliar with Mr. Yip, he is “Bob Sir” to the Hong Kong AEDP community. Mindful of the classic “To Sir With Love,” Bob Sir is the embodiment of seniority (nothing to do with age), richness of experience, wisdom, compassion and lovingkindness. When one of us (Danny) was made aware that Bob Sir was participating in Hong Kong’s Immersion Course, the immediate response was the tremulous “OMG! Yip Mang Sau is here!?!” Why? The therapeutic work Bob Sir and his organization was a momentous inspiration for us to dream about providing healing through therapy.
Bob Sir’s extraordinary genuine modesty and willingness to engage in the whole AEDP training
process quietly, unassumingly and resolutely is worthy of the deep respect from the Hong Kong
AEDP community. Furthermore, the fact that he rose above a life threatening health issue to get to where he is today is a testament to the embodiment of transformance in the core of his being.

Bob Sir definitely deserves this acknowledgement not because of his renowned status in counselling field in Hong Kong, but his genuineness, openness, humility, hard work, and great integration in AEDP. It has been our great honour to be able to share our learning with him and encounter him because of AEDP. He is our model and a good friend we could turn to.

With this, please join with us to celebrate Mr. Bob Yip’s significant milestone and his outstanding contribution to the Hong Kong and international AEDP community, past, present and future.

Esther Poon MFT
Adjunct Faculty, AEDP Institute
Danny Yeung MD
Senior Faculty, AEDP Institute
Chair of International Development

Dear AEDP community,

I am thrilled to announce that James McCracken LCSW is now a certified AEDP therapist! Congratulations, James!

I have had the pleasure of knowing and supervising James since he attended the AEDP Immersion course in 2019. From the get-go, James impressed me with his energy and dedication to learning AEDP. James brings an empathetic and compassionate lens to all his clients, determined to help alleviate their suffering and distress. His embodiment of the AEDP stance is evident in his clinical work and his relationship with his clients. James offers a steady presence that helps make it possible for clients to access difficult affective experiences, all while undoing their aloneness and facilitating new experiences of transformation and change. It has been a pleasure and a joy to work with James and to watch his clients heal and grow.

Since 2019, James has also been an active member of the AEDP community. In the time that I have known James, he has completed Essential Skills, started an AEDP reading and discussion group, worked as an experiential assistant for Essential Skills courses, and, more recently, acted as a lead assistant in AEDP Immersion courses. Outside of AEDP, James has also been active with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy as a practitioner and supervisor, has worked as a clinical instructor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and co-founded a group practice in North Carolina in which he supervises and mentors other therapists (and introduces them to AEDP!).

In AEDP supervision, James has also worked with AEDP Supervisor Judy Slivan. Here’s what Judy shared in congratulating James:

“James is the rare clinician whose AEDP journey began with a solid experiential and affective foundation. We were lucky to have him as a member of a weekly AEDP supervision group before family expansion changed his time commitments.

Supervising James’ work and his calm, warm, gifted presence as a group member was pure joy. His AEDP skills grew to demonstrate the skill base needed to dyadically attune, process affect, and un-do layers of complex trauma using AEDP 4-state work. He was able to usher in transformations in his sessions with clients and was also a safe and caring partner to other clinicians in our supervision group. James enhanced the shared learning of the other AEDP therapists, and developed solid affective-receptivity in vulnerably sharing his work as well. Congratulations James and I hope you will find ways to savor this momentous achievement of Certification in your AEDP journey. “

The reviewers of James’ certification videos and transcripts add:

“James is a skillful AEDP therapist who conveys a clear sense of how deeply he sees, hears and cares for his clients. His solid grasp of the AEDP model, mindful moment-to-moment tracking and discerning choice of interventions allow his clients to feel safe and in good hands. James is a knowledgeable and competent AEDP practitioner. He facilitates healing and transformation for his clients through work that is powerful and deeply human.”

And:

“James’ ability to be present with his two patients was striking. I experienced him as calming, affirming, re-assuring, and supportive. James listened well, validated his patients, made left brain sense of right brain experience through platforming, and then helped his patients go deeper. James self-disclosed his own life experiences when he felt it would undo alonness and de-shame the moment.”

The AEDP community is fortunate to welcome James as a certified AEDP therapist. I am happy to celebrate this achievement with him and the AEDP community!

If you would like to personally congratulate James, please email him directly at James@nctherapists.com.

Sincerely,
Ben Medley LCSW
Senior Faculty
The AEDP Institute

Dear AEDP Introducing Elizabeth (Beth) Schwenzfeier to our community as a newly Certified AEDP clinician is a real delight.

Beth was already an accomplished therapist when she began her AEDP training in 2016; as she describes in her own statement, her spirit responded immediately. The devotion and persistence Beth has brought to the study of the model has felt like a spiritual practice for those of us lucky enough to accompany her. As one of her reviewers observed, “Her care comes through over and over as she lends her nervous system to her clients to go places they couldn’t go alone.” From the first moments of engagement in early sessions, to the middle of work with severely traumatized people, Beth shows up and meets her clients with compassion and emotional intelligence.

Both her reviewers remark on Beth’s trust in the process of the model; for an already-competent therapist, the work of “unlearning” and “not knowing” is often a real challenge; Beth demonstrates how this is entirely possible, from the inside out.
The AEDP community at large, and the Charlottesville Va. community in particular, are very lucky to have Beth with us, with her big heart and mind in service of healing.
Enthusiastically,
Kate Halliday, Senior Faculty

Here is Beth’s own statement as she absorbs the news of her success in certification:
AEDP Journey Statement
I went to Immersion in 2016 feeling disillusioned with my work as a psychotherapist. I could almost always help my clients understand the reasons for their psychic pain, and sometimes they changed behaviors to function better in their lives, but often they didn’t actually feel better, not deep down. In my experience as provider and recipient of therapy, I didn’t see or experience the healing and freedom I wished for my clients and myself. Talk therapy had started to feel like a scam.
I had heard of AEDP and other experiential therapies and wondered if they were more effective. I signed up for a week of Immersion in Durham, NC, not only because of my burnout, but also because it would be held just after attending a family reunion that I expected would be emotionally very challenging. I figured a week of professional training would be bolstering.
I cried through much of my Immersion week – tears of relief, amazement, grief, and gratitude for seeing that psychotherapy can bring about true healing. When I saw Diana Fosha’s work with her patients, I thought, “WOW…I need to learn to do that with my clients!” What I loved most was learning that we all have a core self that we can come home to, even if we are discovering it for the first time, and that this core self doesn’t want to settle for surviving, it wants to thrive. How incredibly hopeful and reassuring.

Through supervision, many subsequent trainings, and my own AEDP therapy, I grew personally and professionally in ways I had thought were literally impossible. My therapist-self became increasingly invigorated as I began helping my clients transform and heal, too. To me, the transformance process feels miraculous and sacred, even though it’s also backed by science. I love practicing AEDP because it requires authentic presence. Over the course of my training, I sometimes found this aspect freeing and refreshing, at other times, terrifying and daunting, but never boring, and always worth the effort.

I am grateful for the many incredible AEDP therapists who were integral in making my certification possible. Wendy Summer and Dave Waters organized a Core Training group that I was so fortunate to participate in. Sharing my client sessions with a group of colleagues and AEDP faculty was really scary, but letting myself and my work be seen was life-altering. I still don’t love sharing my sessions, but my wonderful current supervision group provides unconditional support as I continue to work on this. Liz Perkins was my EA for ES2, and then kindly agreed to supervise me individually. I had been undecided about pursuing certification, but Liz helped me realize that I could, and wanted to. I am deeply grateful to Kate Halliday, my other supervisor for certification; I met Kate shortly after Immersion, so she has accompanied me on this eight-year journey. With Kate and Liz I learned to follow the AEDP model while being my authentic self.

I am so grateful to be a certified member of this passionate community. This work is endlessly fascinating and enlivening!

I hope you’ll join me in congratulating Beth. Her email address is emschwen@comcast.net.

Going further than non-directive… The dominant model for psychedelic assisted therapy is non-directive – allowing the medicine and the inner healing wisdom to do the work.

There is another way – better for many. Using AEDP – an active, attachment based, experiential therapy model – with biological models of memory re-consolidation we can:
• Foster connection and healing from the get-go
• Through moment-to-moment tracking, identify stuck points that become targets for KAP
• Evoke emotional memories prior to ketamine administration and reconsolidate
• Reconsolidate memory in integrative phases
• Meta-process to flourishing states, insight, and learning
• Use psycholytic or psychedelic dosing for specific goals

When: 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month
8 week cycle
Didactic + video demonstrations
Time: 2:30pm-4pm on zoom
Cost: $100 per session – need a quorum
Contact me for details:

Mark Green, MD
markg@psychgarden.com
Psychiatry, addictions, psychedelic assisted
therapies, AEDP therapy
www.psychgarden.com

Group 1: Where are We?: Tracking the 4 States – June 4, 11, 18, 25 from 10:30 - 12:00EST. Balance of didactic + participant tapes to practice tracking markers of the 4 State map, in order to build a left-brain understanding of the reasons why we might select various interventions.

Prerequisite: IMM, and all levels of experience welcome!

contact Liza for more information
liza@lizagreville.com

I’ve facilitated groups for most of the 30 plus years I’ve been in practice, and I love it so much.

I find it exciting to see the ways in which groups help people grow and change. A group member
once said it this way to me – “the thing I love about group is that I’m always learning something
new about myself even if what’s being said doesn’t directly relate to my experience.” When I
began learning AEDP in 2015, it struck me that it’s therapeutic aims are a perfect fit for group
therapy. It was then I began applying it to the groups I facilitated and noticed it’s effectiveness.
In this Consultation group, we will explore how we as group therapists can make use of our
AEDP skills in order to facilitate the unique ways that group processes work with and enhance
our natural developmental and healing capacities.
We will meet monthly on Zoom, time TBD.
If you are interested, please reach out to me, Shari Eliot, for more details. seliot@rcn.com

Beginner’s Mind Consultation Group…NEW Group forming
2 spots open..
Finishing ES1..and want to continue growing? AEDP collaborative learning is a
transformational experience like no other!
Begin or continue videotaping while developing and strengthening your personal AEDP
therapeutic presence. We will focus on how to videotape comfortably, and to self-
supervise while watching your own videos.
If you aren’t taping you can present a case as your client and me as therapist so you
can get a bottom up sense of how to make it more AEDP-ish.
..add to your AEDP skill set while honoring the many skills you already have.
..learn to be an attuned micro-tracker!
..create portrayals..
..explore the felt sense of all 4 states until they become second nature
..AND enhance your critical consciousness by expanding the AEDP container to include
the larger social context.
I have been an AEDP supervisor for a decade and have a heart centered approach to
this work, leaning into the somatic/emotional connection within ourselves, with our
clients and with each other as we co-create OUR group.
Fridays noon – 2 PM EST, bi-weekly on Zoom.
Starting in February!
Fee for group is $100 US/ per meeting. I offer a reduced fee if needed.
Groups are 4-6 persons to foster AEDP learning intimacy.
All hours count toward certification.
As always, please reach out to me with questions you might have and to explore if this
is a good fit for your learning needs.
With warmth and care,
Judy Silberstein, LCSW-R
pronouns: she/her
Certified AEDP Therapist, Supervisor 
Certified Bioenergetic Therapist, Supervisor
judysilb@gmail.com

“Balance AEDP” Supervision with Marc Cecil, Ph.D., Certified AEDP Supervisor

Recently, I named my new laptop computer, "Balance." Funny name for a computer, but
it said it all to me. My laptop is a tool I sit in front of many hours a day, and I wanted to
see it as something in my life that helps to keep me in balance rather than a source of
stress and frustration. 

Since I’m not a computer, when I sit with a patient or supervisee, I want to create a
container where I can be viewed as someone who can help them find balance inside
themselves. I want them to know that I believe in them, and that we all have the power
inside to heal and to facilitate this process in others.

Like the see-saw I loved to play on as a kid, or the mobile of the family in my office, it
takes a special balance to make life work, let alone be a therapist. Our work is about
balance and finding the courage to be different, i.e., to be ourselves in our own human
way, so we can help our patients do the same. I believe you can all do that, and, if
you're not sure, I'll help you. It is our calling. 

If my words speak to you, just send me an email and tell me what you are looking for in
supervision, individual and/or group, and what finding this balance would be like for you.
This is an important decision that goes way beyond trying to figure out how to get
enough hours for certification.

I imagine joining you on this journey and helping you discover the amazing healing gifts
you have inside. And, of course, I'll be at your side, doing the same – finding the
balance. 
With warmth and care,

Marc

Marc A. Cecil, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Certified AEDP Supervisor
Certified EMDR Consultant
CSRT Supervisor in Training
Rutland, Vermont
802-236-9512
mcecilvt@aol.com

I am offering individual supervision, based in the UK but working internationally.   I will be working towards supervision certification so all supervision hours accrued with me will count towards your therapist certification once my certification process is complete. Please feel free to get in touch and have a chat about your requirements at shelley@shelleycarrtherapy.com. 
Warmly
Shelley

—
Shelley Carr 

Please join on June 14, 2023 8:00AM-9:30AM PDT (11:00AM-12:30PM EDT) for an engaging discussion as part of our ongoing Under the Tent series:

Targeted KAP Using AEDP: A Brief Overview with Mark Green, MD

The dominant model for psychedelic assisted therapy is non-directive – allowing the medicine and the inner healing wisdom to do the work.

Dr. Mark Green thinks we can do better.

Using AEDP – an active, attachment based, experiential therapy model – with biological models of memory reconsolidation we can:

Foster connection and healing from the get-go

Through moment-to-moment tracking, identify stuck points that become targets for KAP

Evoke emotional memories prior to ketamine administration and reconsolidate

Reconsolidate memory in integrative phases

Meta-process to flourishing states, insight, and learning

Use psycholytic or psychedelic dosing for specific goals

In this 90-minute overview Mark will briefly outline the principles of AEDP that he has interwoven with KAP phases of preparation, medicine session and integration periods.

Bio: Mark Green, MD is a psychiatrist specializing in addictions. He completed his residency and fellowship at Cornell before conducting research into stress and addictions at Rockefeller University. He has been on Faculty at Cornell, Vermont and Harvard, and lectured nationally on harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, opiate treatment and psychotherapies. Mark has run outpatient and residential programs and systems in several states and owned and operated Psych Garden in Belmont, MA, which provided evidence-based, family-focused and harm reduction treatment. Mark is a certified therapist and supervisor in training in AEDP – Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy – and trained in the MAPS study for MDMA for PTSD. He is a trainer with Psychedelic Therapy Boston.

Topic: Targeted KAP Using AEDP with Mark Green, MD
Time: Jun 14, 2024 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/96764051347?pwd=NjhsMERzVXpUL1JSRlQ4Q0Irb3R2dz09

Meeting ID: 967 6405 1347
Passcode: 987872

Meetings are held via Zoom on the second Saturday of the month at 9:30 PST/ 12:30 EST. 

For more information, feel free to contact: Loseca Austral: loseca.austral@gmail.com (NY, USA), or
Ajen Busher: jennifer@ajenbusher.com (CA, USA)

To be added to the invitation list, please contact Loseca Austral. 

The workshop will be Friday May 17th and Saturday May 18th 8am -3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.  Special price $460 Australian / $300 USD (save $200!) Check your time zone here!

It is appropriate for ALL people with emotions – both clients and therapists! You can find out more and register here!  Please feel free to contact Heather Sanford with any questions sanford.he@gmail.com.

Emotions Education 101 Workshop in an Australian (and other country) friendly time zone!  The workshop will be Friday May 17th and Saturday May 18th 8am -3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.  Special price $460 Australian / $300 USD (save $200!) Check your time zone here!

It is appropriate for ALL people with emotions – both clients and therapists! You can find out more and register here!  Please feel free to contact Heather Sanford with any questions sanford.he@gmail.com.

Transcription Services, Hiring and Other Posts

Do you want to continue learning AEDP experientially and in community? I am experimenting with a new kind of offering- a stand-alone AEDP Practice group that is not connected to any specific didactic training.

As an Experiential Assistant at AEDP trainings, I have had the privilege of leading many small groups through AEDP practice sessions. These are the groups of 3 people where each person rotates through the role of therapist, client, and witness. The beauty of these groups is that the focus is on the learning of the therapist, giving you an opportunity to stretch, take risks, and try new things. Unlike a paid therapy session where we focus on the experience of the client, in an AEDP Practice Group, the experience and growth of the therapist is centered. This is a low-pressure way to play, puzzle it out, see what’s going well, notice your impact, and bring your enthusiasm for AEDP.

I wanted to find a way to continue these groups outside of formal AEDP trainings and continue practicing together. I will not be providing didactic training or showing video, but I will suggest an AEDP principle to focus on and provide a prompt for the practice sessions. I am not certified in AEDP and these groups will not count towards the AEDP certification process. As a facilitator I will hold space, manage time, provide feedback about what’s working and suggestions (when desired). I will also zoom out to track the arc of each mini session and note the choice points, AEDP interventions, and key moments.

NOW FORMING A NEW AEDP PRACTICE GROUP

6 sessions of 90 minutes each- must commit to full series
Each group will have 3 participants and 1 facilitator

EVERY OTHER TUESDAY 4:30-6:00pm Pacific Time

June 4, June 18, July 2, July 16, July 30, Aug 3

$105 per session, $630 total*

*Sliding scale available upon request for BIPOC and prelicensed clinicians, and/or those who work in agencies with multiply marginalized populations.

QUESTIONS? WANT TO SIGN UP?
The first step is to sign up for a free intake phone call through my website: https://carolynmoorecounseling.com
Please make a note that you are interested in the AEDP Practice Group.

If you are unable to make this round, but want to join an interest list for future rounds, please email me at: carolynmoore@yahoo.com

ABOUT ME:
I have been studying AEDP for 11 years and have worked 1:1 with an AEDP supervisor for 5 years. I am a Level III AEDP practitioner but am not AEDP-certified. I have a lot of experience leading small experiential groups and get excited about the profound learning and support that is possible. One of my gifts is helping therapists feel seen, notice what’s working, and helping therapists feel their impact on their clients.

Are you an AEDP therapist working in British Columbia? If you’re looking for a collaborative and supportive environment to grow your skills while building your private practice, the Commons Wellness Collective is looking for AEDP trained therapists to join us. 

For more information, view our job posting or reach out to Nicole at nicole@thecommonswellness.ca. 

Nicole Neufeld  (she/they)

MC, RCC 18958

thecommonswellness.ca

I’m looking for a practitioner or two who is ready to be in community with me and other trauma-informed practitioners in-person in Los Altos, as a four office suite has come open to lease in town in a beautiful, landscaped, and peaceful complex at an affordable price.

I’m a Level 3 AEDP therapist, and PCIT, IFS, and EMDR trained. I feel deeply moved, inspired, and grateful for this work.

I work with adults, families, couples and children. I prefer a diverse mix, as the novelty and change helps me stay connected to the warm and regulated Self state with more ease. I also like to joke a bit with my colleagues and clients (reasonably!), which is another reason I’d like to find an office mate or two.

Details:

The office would be available in June, but the timeline for joining me is flexible, based on your availability.

The offices range in price from $1250 to $1450. There is an ensuite bathroom, a small community space to connect, have tea and a snack and reset, and a welcoming waiting room.

The costs of these offices include all utilities, landscaping, janitorial, wifi, and maintenance.

In addition, it is my intention to create a space for community and warmth within our shared space, and would welcome your input and needs in how that looks.

If you are interested in talking further, please reach out to me!

Warm regards,
Carrie

Carrie O’Leary
Los Altos, CA, USA
408-717-3105
carrieolearylmft@gmail.com
www.carrieolearylmft.com

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I am pleased to offer audio/video transcription services to therapists working on certification materials, or preparing for presentations, supervision, or other training. I bring attentive eyes and ears to your work in order to accurately capture the content of your sessions. Completed transcripts include time stamps, verbatim dialogue, and tracking of non-verbals. 
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Dear AEDP community, 

I am seeking volunteers who might want to bravely share their guided or therapeutic psychedelic experiences as part of a masters thesis I am completing on psychedelics and systems psychodynamics.

My thesis is exploring how to reimagine some concepts in systems psychodynamics through the collective experiences of guided, therapeutic journeys and lens of psychedelic research and is tentatively titled, “The Psychedelic Balcony: Phantastic Object or Simply Fantastic”.

I am not able to offer a stipend for this interview and conversation (45-60 minutes) but am putting out the ask in the spirit of ongoing community mutual support, ongoing integration of guided psychedelic experiences, and network building. 

Anyone interested in speaking with me can back channel me at: CR@rennickeassociates.com

Thank you for your support, 

Courtney Rennicke, Ph.D.

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The Gift of Synchronicity By Marc Cecil

Who am I to sit with someone who is hurting after a lifetime of trauma and help them find a way to heal? Will I be able to join them in putting together the pieces of a puzzle where I might represent a piece that has been missing, or that makes it hard for the puzzle to come together?

So many difficult questions. But somehow, I find the courage to keep moving forward. Many clients tell me that they feel seen in a way they have not felt before, while others have a harder time. Either way, I am grateful that they are giving me the gift of knowing them, but I am even more delighted when they give this gift to themselves.

For example, with my client, Rosie, we discuss how she is treating her adult daughter like a child. I gently ask her, “What is the hardest part about letting your daughter grow up?” She looks perplexed, perhaps a little angry, even sad. And, after holding her gaze for what seems like a lifetime, she wipes her tears, and says, “I guess that means I’m an adult now and need to have my own life.” I respond, “I’m so glad you can see that. That’s a hard one for many of us to learn.”

It’s great when the water is flowing steadily in the right direction, but sometimes it feels like nothing is happening, or the water is so rough that we are even moving backwards. I try to remember that that’s just the way life is, and that healing works in a similar manner. And then, one day, a new door begins to open, often unexpectedly, making it possible to see the light inside more clearly.

Contemplating the meaning of this work, I take a long run along the lake near my home in Vermont on a chilly Sunday afternoon in late November. Out of nowhere, I see a man standing alone dressed up as Santa Claus, playing a beautiful classical melody on his violin in a way I have never heard before, but seems very natural for him.

Staying on course to get my best time, I don’t slow down to enjoy the music, only realizing now that like this special Santa, I also need to be myself as a therapist, not trying so hard to do what is always expected, but rather, making space for the unexpected in my work and life.

Now, if feeling discouraged and stuck when working with Rosie or other clients, we slow down and just turn the picture a little, looking at it from a different angle. After a pause, sometimes, sprinkling in a few heartfelt words, while encouraging them to find their own, they begin to notice the light inside, revealing their specialness in a way we have only seen glimpses of before.

This work shows me that being a psychotherapist is not just about learning a specific set of skills and techniques. Instead, I like to think about what we do as an art, where we are on this journey together and are creating a picture of our humanness as both a client and therapist. I often tell my clients, “They are rewriting a story which helped them survive but is keeping them stuck in the past, making it difficult to see who they are now and the person they are becoming.”

At the same time, I am keenly aware of how a parallel process is happening inside of me. In a dream, a wise person tells me, “Many have not always appreciated themselves or been valued for the blessing of being able to see things beyond their years.” I reply, “Boy, that hits the nail on the head. But it has taken me a while to grow up, and, I don’t have that many more years left.” I feel their kind voice saying, “Don’t worry, we are not a unitary self. It’s what’s happening in synchronicity that tells us whether we are heading in the right direction.”

In the spirit of the holiday season, and the special therapy approaches woven into our hearts, I encourage you to slow down and make some space for your own questions and reflections. When we take the time to experience what that’s like, we can imagine the whole world lighting up and changing for many of us at the same time.

I still don’t know the answers to my original questions, and many more are arising, but I rest easier knowing that I can trust myself and the process of healing, and it will take me wherever I need to go.

I look forward to crossing paths with you along the way, even if we never actually meet. But if we do, I have no doubt it will be special, and new doors will open in our lives, as well as with so many others we touch with our hearts.

I call this the gift of synchronicity, which I believe can, and is, becoming a reality. You may not see it coming, but, when it arrives, soak in the love and joy, knowing that it is just a part of your client or you that has come back home.

Much joy and hope this holiday season, and into the new year and beyond.

Marc A. Cecil, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Certified AEDP Supervisor and Therapist, in addition to being a certified EMDR consultant and CSRT supervisor in training. Marc lives nearby the sacred shores of Lake Bomoseen, and his office is in Rutland, Vermont. He invites you to join him in noticing your own moments of synchronicity, as you become the therapist and person you were always meant to be. Marc welcomes your comments and feedback at mcecilvt@aol.com.

©️Copyright 2023 Marc A. Cecil, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

The Rainbow Connection By Marc Cecil

I tear up when I think about my patient, Joy. She came to see me after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, feeling overwhelmed and struggling to keep herself above water, let alone finding the drive to keep moving forward.

I quickly discovered that Joy was a bright light to many in her life, a devoted mother, wife, and friend, who wanted nothing more than to live long enough to be with her children one more day. That was the glimmer of her core self that helped her remember why she was alive and why we were doing this work together.

I grabbed onto this light and never let it go, letting her know that I saw who she was at her core, and that it was far more powerful than the illness that was trying to hijack her. Although she tried every possible treatment, Joy decided that she wasn’t going to “fight cancer,” as she knew that this would put her at war with her body rather than working with it. She would often share her frustrations about the corporate fund raisers only wanting to focus on the more curable cancers, as they believed no one wanted to give money to a lost cause.

Nevertheless, I could see in her eyes and hear in her voice that the transformation was happening. We would then metaprocess what it was like to know that she didn’t need to fit into that mold and had her own voice that was much stronger. Joy realized that she was all about “living with cancer,” and, I mean living!

Continuing the spiral of transformation, Joy knew her truth even more and celebrated that she was no longer alone in the world, like she felt as a child, and so many other times over the years. In the process, she discovered that she could take back her power to be herself and speak out for others, even though she never knew when the medicine would stop working.

Joy was expected to only live for 2 years but she made it five. None of her doctors could explain it, but we both knew that having cancer was not a death sentence. In fact, it actually helped her find a reason for living and to face some of the immense loss and trauma she tried to bury inside.

With all of our courage, each enhancing the other’s, we focused our work on some of the many things that contributed to her cancer, not just the medical, but the psychological, which consumed her body and sense of self. And, in time, Joy began to give herself permission to feel, truly knowing her humanness and value. She found her beautiful core self, and with it, more of a reason to live.

The last time we met, only a few days before she passed, I sensed that we both knew that we were saying goodbye and would not see each other again. Usually not at a loss for words, I didn’t quite know how to express what she meant to me. But, knowing what it would mean to her to disclose my feelings, I played her a song I thought would touch her heart with what was also in mine.

It’s been 5 years now since Joy left us, and I just heard that song again when scrolling through social media. The lovely young woman in front of me was wearing a cap covering her head, and the glow on her face reminded me of Joy, who loved to sing and had a beautiful voice.

In that moment, I remembered that before Joy passed away, she told me that she would find a way to let me know that she was okay. I’m sure you’ll recognize this tune first made popular by a famous frog, starting with the double-barreled question, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows – what’s on the other side?”

When I listen to this song now, I feel Joy’s beautiful spirit telling us all to believe in ourselves and to have hope during the darkest times. These words have given me much solace during recent days, and, in thinking about other times during my life, the darkness encompassing so many people around the world, including many in this community.

If you knew Joy, you would also know that she embodied the spirit of AEDP, and that her great soul lives on in my heart, as well as in many others. I’m sure she would appreciate you sharing this message, like I am doing now. It is my way of telling her and others how grateful I am that she was in my life and how much her truth means to all of us.

Most of all, I encourage you to welcome the joy, sitting hand-in-hand with the loss and grief, not covering it up, but making space for it, enabling the meaning that got implanted to help you survive, to realign. Be patient and drink in the light, letting it join with the glorious core self of who you have always been and deserve to be.

In the end, we may not know the answers to all of life’s mysteries, but, perhaps, we don’t need to, as long as we have touched the core of ourselves and others in our heart. That’s the power of transformation and healing we all have inside of us.

I would love to hear about what that’s like for you. Then, we could bask in the joy on the other side of the rainbow. That’s “the rainbow connection – the lovers, the dreamers, and me.”

Marc A. Cecil, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Certified AEDP Supervisor and Therapist, in addition to being a certified EMDR consultant and CSRT supervisor in training. Marc lives nearby the sacred shores of Lake Bomoseen, and his office is in Rutland, Vermont. You can email Marc at mcecilvt@aol.com to let him know how his words settle inside, and where they take you. He would love it if you join him in sharing your own heartfelt creativity that arises inside of you and your patients, spreading the “spirit of AEDP” throughout this community and into the world around us.

©️Copyright 2023 Marc A. Cecil, Ph.D. All rights reserved.