Dear Esteemed Global AEDP® Community,
On behalf of Jacquie H. Ye Perman and I, we have the privilege to announce Professor Juwon Oh from South Korea has officially attained the status of Certified AEDP® Therapist.
As Juwon’s clinical supervisor, Jacquie and I had the opportunity to bear witness to her work. Juwon’s innate, natural, and gifted capacity in working with AEDP® has been consistently impressive. Observing Juwon’s work in her clinical video recordings, we are consistently struck by her mindful presence with her clients. Her embodiment of loving kindness, curiosity, openness, and acceptance is evident and palpable.
Juwon’s unwavering dedication to AEDP® training is commendable. She has demonstrated remarkable resilience by enduring the rigorous and challenging process of attending the Immersion Course in Korea and the Essential Skills course in North America. In both clinical cases submitted for certification, Juwon has demonstrated exceptional competence in stance skills and spirit as an AEDP® therapist.
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Here is what Juwon’s certification reviewers shared about her:
Watching these sessions, I experienced the therapist as grounded, steady, and emotionally present. There is a calm patience in the therapist’s pacing that allows the client’s innerexperience to unfold naturally. I felt the therapist’s genuine care and receptivity throughout the work. Particularly in the exploration of early anger, the therapist’s presence created a relational field in which deeply held affect could safely emerge and transform. I found myself moved by the client’s journey from distress and anger toward relief, connection, and joy, and by the therapist’s steady accompaniment of that process. I was equally moved by the therapist’s firm advocacy for the client’s inner child in the early treatment tape, and the meeting of the two relationally in State 4 at the end.
This therapist demonstrates a warm, attuned presence that consistently supports undoing aloneness. Throughout both sessions the therapist maintains a steady relational field that allows the client to access emotionally significant material while remaining connected to self and to the therapist. The therapist shows particular skill in recognizing and amplifying transformance strivings. Moments of courage, vitality, and self-recognition are noticed and supported, helping the client deepen into emerging positive experience. The therapist’s pacing is thoughtful and patient, and her comfort with silence allows the client’s emotional process to unfold organically, yet in a manner it would not have without the therapist’s support.
Importantly, the therapist demonstrates trust in the client’s innate healing trajectory. By maintaining presence and supporting experiential processing, the therapist allows the client’s natural transformance strivings to guide the therapeutic process. In both tapes the therapist guides the client from painful early experience into the transfomation of State 3 and new knowing and ease of State 4, with skill and ease.
The therapist’s attunement and trust shines through as does her deep knowing of the model and ability to match it both to her own presence and to the culture in which she practices.
The other reviewer notes:
Juwon demonstrated brave and skillful work in helping Patient 1 recall a traumatic sexual assault. The therapists presence ushered her patient from not wanting to approach this painful memory (state 1) to processing the terror and shame (state 2) to expansion and trancendance (literarally one with the earth (state 3) to grounded peace (state 4.) I felt priviledged to watch this work in Korean. It was stellar!
Juwon embodied her role as the “older wiser other.” Undoing aloneness of the patient’s child part, the patient was able to feel liberation from the shame and fear that had been curtailing her life until this session. Powerful!
In Tape 2 what struck me most was the quality of allowing emergence. In her work with anger, orginating in the womb, Juwon faciliated deep connection to her patient’s younger self, her patient’s body, and her parents. At the end, the presence and transformational catalyst of God appears — the patient is the daughter of a pastor. Juwon integrates God and spirituality in a skillful and accepting way that the patient deeply feels and uses. Metaprocessing confirms that the patient has indeed noticed significant changes in her life over the past several sessions.
According to Juwon’s notes, anger at one’s parents in Korea is taboo. So working with anger is especially trickly. Juwon navigated the conflict between showing anger at parents and processing anger at parents with compassion and skill.
Juwon is a brave and present therapist who uses fantasy skillfully. She converys a deep understanding of the 9+1 Change Mechanisms and demonstrates them well in these video tapes. She uses herself to affirm and regulate her patients. She shows competancy in AEDP® methods. And her knowledge of AEDP® theory is evident from the transcripts.
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Please join us in congratulating Professor Juwon Oh in sending her a private message: mkoh82@naver.com
Warmly
Danny
Danny Yeung MD CCFP MDPAC(C) FCFP
Assistant Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Faculty & Chair of International Development Committee, AEDP® Institute
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