16-Session AEDP™ Psychotherapy: A proven time-limited treatment that preserves the model’s depth and complexity
“Unexpectedly, a dreaded 16 session deadline dissolves into a welcome embrace as an attuned, courageous, caring therapist and safe, seen, committed client discover together the profound healing offered by AEDP’s faith and skill in facilitating intrinsic human capacities for self-righting and accelerated, quantum transformation. Miracles, evidence based miracles, abound!”
Penelope Andrade, MSW LCSW, Therapist in 16-session AEDP Psychotherapy
This course is open to:
Licensed Mental Health Providers practicing legally in your state, province, or country, including Counselors, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals. For information about whether this course offers Continuing Education credits for your license, see the bottom of the page.
AEDP Level Prerequisite:
Must have completed Immersion, ES1 and at least 10 hours of supervision from an AEDP certified Supervisor.
Watch this video to learn about the 16-session AEDP™ psychotherapy treatment protocol originally designed for use in the AEDP Research project, but now being used by clinicians outside of research as well.
Course Description
This course explores all aspects of time-limited 16-session AEDP Psychotherapy. We will review the history of time-limited psychodynamic treatment in the development of AEDP; explore the connection between 16-session AEDP Psychotherapy and the ongoing systematic research into the efficacy and practice of AEDP. We will demonstrate how it is possible to do time-limited AEDP, while preserving the depth and complexity of AEDP, as well its fundamental attachment orientation, healing-based methodology and experiential processes. The course will cover the practical, applied, nuts and bolts of how to do a 16-session protocol of AEDP. These include: selection and exclusion criteria; how to conduct the first session of 16-session Psychotherapy AEDP; how to introduce and leverage the time–limit from the get-go; goal setting and ongoing evaluation of the goals; mid-treatment issues and dynamics; and how to approach and work with termination in a way that is congruent with the model’s relational and transformational orientation. We will also cover strategies for navigating potential challenges that may arise in the course of time-limited AEDP treatment. Special attention will be paid to healing from the get-go sessions (initial sessions 1-3) and how the change process catalyzed in therapy can extend beyond the end of treatment.
Course Objectives
- Discuss the history of time-limited psychodynamic treatment in the development of AEDP
- Describe the ongoing systematic research into the efficacy and practice of AEDP, and its connection to the development of the 16-session AEDP Psychotherapy treatment protocol
- List selection and exclusion criteria for participating patients in the AEDP research study
- Identify fundamental elements of AEDP and key change processes in a 16-session treatment protocol of the model
- Describe how the depth and richness of AEDP’s healing-oriented methodology, attachment-based therapist stance and method, and experiential processes are preserved in the practice of 16-session AEDP
- Discuss how to conduct the first session
- Explain how to introduce the time—limit from the get-go and set goals
- Describe mid-treatment issues and dynamics
- Discuss how to approach and work with termination in a way that is congruent with the model’s relational and transformational orientation
- Identify potential challenges that may arise in the course of time-limited AEDP treatment, and discuss potential strategies for navigating these
- Discuss how the change process catalyzed in therapy can extend beyond the end of treatment
Agenda
Meet the Presenters
Diana Fosha, PhD
Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP™, a healing-based, radically relational, transformation-oriented experiential psychotherapy. She is the Founder and Director of the AEDP Institute.
For more than two decades, Diana has championed a scientific foundation for AEDP, a therapeutic approach that focuses on healing trauma, repairing attachment wounds, and rekindling vitality. Her work integrates positive neuroplasticity, recognition science, and dyadic developmental research into experiential and transformative clinical practice. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of the AEDP therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of-plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP exemplifies the integration of scientific research and clinical practice in psychotherapy.
Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in Clinical Psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.
Richard Harrison, PhD
Richard Harrison, PhD, is a faculty member of AEDP™ Institute and a Registered Psychologist with over 25 years’ experience as a clinician and teacher. He was trained and supervised in AEDP by Diana Fosha, founder of the model. He is a Certified Supervisor in both AEDP and EFT. Richard teaches and supervises graduate students in the Counseling Psychology and Psychiatry departments at the University of British Columbia, and maintains a full clinical caseload with individuals and couples in private practice in Vancouver.
Richard has authored peer-reviewed publications on AEDP theory and practice; attachment-informed supervision; and therapist self-care; including a 2020 article in Psychotherapy on “Termination in 16-session
2023 – 2024 Dates | 8 Tuesdays | 3 hours per session
Important: There has been a change in some dates as of September 6:
November, 7 + 14 + 21 + 28, 2023
December 5 + 12, 2023
January 9 + 16, 2024
Time:
12:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Time USA + Canada
Please be sure to calculate your local time zone if it is not US Eastern Time
Requirements to Participate Effectively Online: You will need a private space with a reliable Internet connection for a desktop/laptop computer that has video and microphone. Click here for AEDP’s Live, Online Learning: Requirements & FAQ’s.
AEDP Level Prerequisite
Must have completed Immersion, ES1 and at least 10 hours of supervision from an AEDP certified Supervisor.
AEDP Certification: This course does not count toward AEDP certification.
Member Registration $1,279 USD : (log in to register)
Member Registration with Payment plan $1319 USD: ($500 due at registration then 4 monthly installments of $204.75 starting the month after registration)
Non-Member Registration $1,319 USD
Non-Member Registration $1359: Payment plan: $500 deposit due at registration- 4 monthly installments of $214.75 starting month after registration
Non-Member Registration $1,319 USD
Non-Member Registration $1359: Payment plan: $500 deposit due at registration- 4 monthly installments of $214.75 starting month after registration
We are no longer accepting Scholarship applications for this course
ADA
Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call 813-553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate you..
Questions
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Marilia Rodriguez
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