Essential Skills April 2025 | Northern Cross

A Level 2 Course* Presented by AEDP™ Institute Faculty

Five 4-day Modules: April 2025 – January 2026

*This course contributes to Certification eligibility, but attending does not require pursuing Certification.

Our aim is to teach, in both left-brained and right-brained ways,
different types of clinical interventions so that participants
will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to “do” AEDP.

Course Description

AEDP Essential Skills provides practical skills for the application of AEDP as well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice. Different skill sets will be introduced, explained, illustrated and practiced in each module, so that participants will emerge with both an understanding and a felt sense of how to practice AEDP. In each module AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and then illustrated by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in small group experiential exercises.

Topics
Module 1: Healing from the Get-Go: a Clinical Roadmap for the AEDP Transformational Journey
Module 2: Attachment and Relational Work: Undoing Aloneness in Clinical Action
Module 3: State 1: The Top of the Triangle of Experience Working with Defense and Anxiety
Module 4: State 2 Work: The Processing of Core Affective Experience
Module 5: State 3 & State 4 Work: The Processing of Transformational Experience & The Integration of Transformation into Self

Faculty Steeped in AEDP Theory, Clinical Teaching from Videotapes, Experiential Exercises
These are the hallmarks of AEDP trainings. At AEDP Institute, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching with skilled accompaniment. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers. Participants deeply appreciate how effectively faculty presenters’ clinical video demonstrates “AEDP in action.” And faculty have skilled accompaniment from Experiential Assistants – up to and often including one Assistant for every four participants. Participants rave about the excellent attention and support they receive in this unique learning environment.

Routine for each module
AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes. Skills are then practiced in small group experiential exercises. Experiential practice time makes up roughly 40% of the course.

Objectives, Schedule

Who Should Attend:

Licensed mental health practitioners (or the local/regional equivalent to ‘licensed’*) as well as interns legally practicing under the license of a supervising practitioner. These include Counselors, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals.

Level: AEDP Level 1 (Graduates of Immersion)

If you have a question about the relevance of this course for you and/or your eligibility for this course please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org.

Meet the Presenters (see full bios below)

Dates, Times, Location
(participants must commit to all five modules):

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Location: Live Online
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 the AEDP Live, Online Learning Requirements & FAQ’s.

Registration, Fees and Scholarships

Non-Member Registration: $3259 USD
Non-Member Registration with a payment plan $3309: requires a $500 deposit today and 8 monthly installments of $351.13

Reminder: you must have completed AEDP Immersion or an Institute approved equivalent to attend

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Scholarships
Limited Scholarships are available. Learn more and apply here

Presenter Bios

H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD

Jacquie Ye-Perman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Adjunct Faculty of the AEDP™ Institute, certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor. She is also a member of the AEDP DBEI (Diversity, Belonging, Equity and Inclusion) Committee and the AEDP International Development Committee. Jacquie grew up in China. She obtained her master’s in Social and Developmental Psychology at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada and her PhD in counseling psychology at University of Florida, USA. She attended her first AEDP Immersion course in 2013 and started receiving supervision from Dr. Diana Fosha soon after. In 2015 she assisted helming the first Immersion course in Shanghai, China, taught by Dr. Diana Fosha and Dr. Danny Yeung. Over the past eight years she has co-taught Immersion, Essential Skills, Core-training courses, and led several other AEDP training in the Chinese-speaking communities and later in English-speaking communities. She also provides individual and group supervision for trainees internationally. (Read More…)

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

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Presenter: Kate Halliday, LCSW

Kate Halliday, LCSW, (she, her, hers) is an AEDP senior faculty member from Ithaca, New York.

Kate is a white, cis-female, lesbian psychotherapist born and brought up in the UK, now based in Ithaca New York. She has been in private practice since 1998 after a number of years spent in community human service agencies. As a member of the AEDP community, Kate is particularly pleased to have developed and maintained a thriving local AEDP group in the Finger Lakes region of New York. As Senior Faculty, she teaches the Essential Skills courses, and developed her “Experience Teaches” series. Her Advanced Skills courses have a focus on the “+1” aspects of being an AEDP clinician. She has also re-discovered an early passion for time limited treatment as a member of the AEDP Research project.

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Presenter: Ben Medley, LCSW

Ben Medley, LCSW (he/him/his) is an AEDP senior faculty member and has taught AEDP internationally with the AEDP Institute, the National Institute of Psychotherapy, the Cape Cod Institute, NASW and in mental health organizations and clinical practices. He has a private practice in New York City and specializes in working with the LGBTQ+ community. Ben earned his degree in Clinical Social Work with the NYU Silver School of Social Work. Before private practice, Ben worked in Greenwich House’s HIV mental health program and the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services’ LGBTQ+ mental health treatment unit. His paper “Recovering the True Self: Affirmative Therapy, Attachment and AEDP in Psychotherapy with Gay Men” is published with the SEPI Journal: the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and he has written a chapter on using portrayals to process core affective experience for the most recent AEDP book Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering Into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0, Washington D.C.: APA. He has also presented with AEDP faculty member Kate Halliday the “5 Star” seminar Liberating the Core Self from the Confines of Heterosexist Oppression with AEDP and with AEDP faculty member Ben Lipton Undoing Shame and Healing Attachment Trauma with straight and gay men (also available on demand). His newest work, a book chapter on AEDP, will be published in Experiential Therapies for the Treatment of Trauma with Routledge Publishing Company.

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD

Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute, co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Los Angeles, California and author of the award winning books Living Like You Mean It (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Loving Like You Mean It (Central Recovery Press, 2019). Since 1994, Dr. Frederick has been training in, practicing, and teaching the AEDP model of psychotherapy, and has received extensive training and supervision from Dr. Fosha. Past experience includes fourteen years as a Clinical Supervisor at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Park House Day Treatment Program, a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Psychology and HIV in the AIDS Center Program at Roosevelt Hospital, NYC, where he later worked as a staff psychologist, and a year-long training rotation in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC. Dr. Frederick supervises trainees in the AEDP model, and has co-facilitated, with Dr. Fosha, AEDP numerous Immersion Courses and workshops. (Read More…)

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