November 18, 2024
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this letter, in my capacity as Magda Evans’ certification supervisor, to confirm
Magda’s readiness to have her certification application advance to the review process.
I have been supporting Magda as her certification supervisor since February, 2024. Magda
has also worked closely in AEDP supervision with Malin Endredi, for many years and
throughout the cerrtification process. Malin’s comments are included later in this letter.
Magda is a skilled and sensitive AEDP therapist with exceptional tracking skills. She is very
steady and spacious in her work and in her warm, heartfelt, caring presence on behalf of
her patients. Magda’s clinical videos demonstrate a deep trust in the experiential process
and in somatic, embodied work. Her patients trust her deeply, and in both clinical tapes,
she helps coregulate patients so they can have new and corrective experiences of
connection to self, in connection to her. And to face and move through core aPective
experiences that were too overwhelming for patients to face alone. Magda notices and
focuses on moments of positive change and expands these through metatherapeutic
processing. She holds space for and resonates with patients when they are in core state.
She has a tremendous appetite for learning and growth – her own and that of her patients. A
growing edge for Magda has been to work dyadically and experientially with relational
experience and receptive aPective experience, in addition to somatic work with embodied
categorical emotion and the patient’s individual aPective experience. Her understanding of
the importance of this component of AEDP theory and practice has expanded and
deepened through the process of reviewing her certification tapes and annotating her
transcripts.
Magda’s tape with an early patient illustrates her sensitive and skilled work with a person
with a significant trauma history who experiences moments of disorganization. Her video
demonstrates multiple AEDP change processes and interventions: gentle and persistent
co-creation of safety, close moment-to-moment tracking, co-regulation of anxiety,
embodied experiential work, dyadic aPect regulation, aPirmative defense work, facilitating
core aPective experience (receptive aPective experience, connection to self and to
therapist, feeling and dealing while relating), and state 3 work, exploring and expanding
transformational aPects through metaprocessing.
In her tape with a mid-treatment patient, Magda helps the patient shift from an internal
experience of “chaos” to one of self-trust, excitement, and coherence. The patient, who
has never lived on her own (and who has a long history of debilitating physical ailments) is
in the middle of a frightening divorce from her husband, a successful businessman. Magda
invites imaginal work and oPers her own image to help co-regulate and organize the
patient, who then has a spontaneous memory of childhood. The session unfolds from there
under Magda’s guidance, and the patient experiences new felt confidence, exploratory zest
for what lies ahead, and extended, deep core state deep calm knowing, truth sense, and
integration.
Here are Malin Endredi’s reflections on her work with Magda Evans:
I have been meeting with Magda Evans as her supervisor for about five years.
This journey has been a true delight for me. Magda has always shown tapes.
From our start I’ve been struck by Magda’s warm presence and care for her clients. It’s
running as a red thread throughout, making her an ePicient psychotherapist.
Magda’s first training was Integrative Therapy and she has been working for a long time as a
psychotherapist.
It’s been lovely to see Magda shifting into AEDP. The more Magda has embodied AEDP, and
its tools, her wisdom, creativity, playfulness and sense of humor have come to the fourth.
Magda has been an Experiential Assistant several times and as such been highly
appreciated for her calm gentleness, warmth and her way of sharing her knowledge.
Magda has a beautiful ability in expressing and receiving gratitude. This is important both
as a psychotherapist and a human being.
Magda has an impressively strong strive to learn and grow. This has really shown up during
the certification process that we started in 2023. It’s been fun to choose among all tapes
together with Magda. She’s been working ePiciently with the transcripts, showing her
theoretical understanding of AEDP. She is very self-reflecting and has been asking for
comments and advice, very eager to get everything right.
I’m grateful that AEDP Faculty Richard Harrison had the opportunity to come in with his
expertise and a second pair of eyes on Magda’s Certification Package.
The tape with the early, second session client is quite recent. Compared with the other,
older tape, we can see how Magda’s AEDP skills have grown. In the transcript she is selfreflective
and sees the choice points she might have taken now.
Both of Magda’s tapes are very moving to me. In the second session tape the client reaches
third state with a dip into core state. She moves from paralysis with attacking voices to
feeling calmer and feeling her energy of life. Magda’s calm, gentle presence and her
creativity and humor made it possible.
In the other, mid therapy tape, the client moves from feeling chaotic and unsure of herself
to oscillating between third and core state. Magda holds her and supports her in the
process in a very skillful way, gently making it move forward. For every round core state is
deepened.
The client lands in a solid, realistic trust in herself and her ability to face what might come
her way. Internal secure attachment created!
None of Magda’s tapes have edits.
Richard and I certainly think that Magda Evans is ready to send in her package for
certification review!
Kind regards,
Richard Harrison and Malin Endredi
PS: Malin’s contact information is:
Malin Endredi
AEDP Supervisor
Email address: endredimalin@gmail.com
Cell phone: +46706409996