AEDP® Advanced Skills Overview
AEDP Advanced Skills offers in-depth training for experienced therapists, focusing on advanced interventions to refine techniques and deepen mastery of the AEDP framework.
Available in full course or didactic-only formats, it provides flexible, comprehensive learning for advanced practitioners.
Advanced Skills trainings offer an opportunity to deepen your expertise in specialized AEDP topics. These trainings provide focused, in-depth learning designed to refine your skills and enhance your clinical practice.
What to Expect: 2 Options
Advanced Skills Full Courses offer a rich blend of specialized learning through expert-led instruction and extensive experiential practice with peers to master interventions. Completing five Advanced Skills Full Course Modules counts towards Level 3 in the AEDP certification process.
Advanced Skills Seminars offer specialized learning through expert-led didactic instruction in a setting where you can connect with our vibrant community. The Seminar format does not count toward certification. It is ideal for a wide range of people – those who are already AEDP Certified as well as those who have not yet completed Essential Skills but and want to get a peek at what more advanced training feels like.
Hallmarks of Training
Faculty, experiential assistants (in full courses) and clinical video. These are the hallmarks of AEDP training. In AEDP, we pride ourselves in how thoroughly and deeply we seek to both undo professional aloneness and engage in rigorous clinical teaching. Our faculty are excellent as academics, clinicians and teachers.
Routine for Full Courses and Seminars
Advanced Skills trainings generally consist of 4 half-days. The first and third days include didactic and clinical video – they are experienced by both Full Course and Seminar participants. The second and fourth days are spent almost entirely in small group experiential work – these days are for Full Course participants only.
Prerequisites
Full Courses: Must have completed Immersion and Essential Skills.
Seminars: Prerequisite: Completion of Immersion. These seminars expand on foundational knowledge, exploring advanced clinical applications and nuanced AEDP topics. While practitioners who haven’t completed Essential Skills may find the material stimulating, its complexity is best suited for experienced AEDP clinicians, including Certified Therapists looking to refresh or deepen their practice.
What participants have to say about Advanced Skills
Upcoming Advanced Skills Modules
Live Online and Highly Interactive
March 2025
Advanced Skills: The Therapist as Organizing Other – Regulating and Building Self-Structure in Dysregulated Clients Through an AEDP Lens
Full Course: Advanced | Seminar: Intermediate
Presented by: Jennifer Edlin, MFT
Dates: Friday – Monday, March 14 – 17, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
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July 2025
Advanced Skills: AEDP Magnificent ‘9+1’ Affective Change Processes
Full Course: Advanced | Seminar: Intermediate
Presented by: Diana Fosha, PhD and Guest Presenters
Dates: Friday – Monday, July 25-28, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
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September 2025
Advanced Skills: Portrayals: Harness the power of the imagination
Training Levels: Intermediate & Advanced
Full Course: Advanced | Seminar: Intermediate
Presented by: Ben Medley, LCSW
Dates: Friday thru Monday | September 5-8, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
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Recently Ended- 2024
January 2025
Advanced Skills: Undoing Disempowerment – Cultivating Agency in AEDP®
Full Course: Advanced | Seminar: Intermediate
Presented by: Eileen Russell, PhD
Dates: Friday, January 24, 2024 – Monday, January 27, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
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Advanced Skills: AEDP Magnificent ‘9+1’ Affective Change Processes
Designed for Essential Skills Grads level 2+
Presented by: Diana Fosha, PhD and Guest Presenters
Friday November 1, 2024 – Monday November 4, 2024
10:30 – 3:00 PM EST
Advanced Skills: Memory Reconsolidation at Work Across States in AEDP: Portrayals and Metaprocessing
Ron Frederick | September 13 – 16, 2024
Advanced Skills: From No SELF to Core Self: The Process
Presented by: Annika Medbo, MA | Friday – Monday, July 19 – 22, 2024
Advanced Skills: Presence and Bravery in Action: AEDP interventions to awaken emotional resilience after loss, endings, and death
Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW | Friday – Monday, June 7 – 10, 2024
Advanced Skills: Undoing Disempowerment: Cultivating Agency in AEDP™
Presented by: Eileen Russell, PhD | February 23 + 24, 2024
Other Archived ASM
AEDP Magnificent ‘9+1’ Affective Change Processes
Presented by: Diana Fosha, PhD | November 3 – 6, 2023
Navigating AEDP’s Experiential-Attachment Work in the Context of Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity
Presented by Kari Gleiser, PhD |September 29-30, 2023
Rescuing the SELF: From No SELF to Core Self
Presented by: Annika Medbo, | July 14-17, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
ASM: “Feeling Felt” Expanding Receptive Affective Capacity Turbo-Charge AEDP’s consolidation of brain growth and neural integration for your clients and yourself Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW | February 10-11, 2023
ASM: Memory Reconsolidation at Work Across States in AEDP: Portrayals and Metaprocessing
Presented by: Ronald J. Frederick, PhD | Friday, July 29 – Saturday, July 30, 2022
SM: Befriending AEDP’s Triangles: Making use of AEDP’s three representational Schemas to guide your interventions and potentiate positive neuroplasticity | Presented by: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT |November 2 – 4, 2022
ASM: AEDP’s Magnificent ‘9+1’ Affective Change Processes
Presented by: Diana Fosha, PhD |Thursday, April 28 – Sunday, May 1, 2022 | 11:00am – 3:00pm EST
“FEELING FELT”; EXPANDING RECEPTIVE AFFECTIVE CAPACITY
Turbo-charge AEDP’s consolidation of brain growth and neural integration for your clients and yourself
Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW | Sunday – Monday December 12-13, 2021
Fine-tuning AEDP Experiential Interventions in interpersonal and Intrapsychic Contexts: Growing your AEDP Edges as You Help Your Clients Grow Theirs
Presented by: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW |Friday – Sunday October 15 – 17, 2021
Navigating AEDP’s Experiential-Attachment Work in the Context of Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity
Presented by: Kari Gleiser, PhD |Sunday + Monday, August 1 – 2 2021
The Therapist as Organizing Other: Regulating and building self-structure in dysregulated clients through an AEDP lens
Presented by: Jennifer Edlin, MFT |Thursday – Saturday April 22 – 24, 2021
Advanced Skills (ES2) Retreat-Style Course LIVE ONLINE (formerly Los Angeles) Sold Out
October 2020 / April 2021
Memory Reconsolidation at Work Across States in AEDP: Portrayals and Metaprocessing
Presented by: Ronald J. Frederick, PhD |February 20 – Sunday February 21, 2021 | 11:00 am – 7:00
Transforming Entrenched Defenses, Pathogenic Affects and Trauma States in AEDP | Presented by: SueAnne Piliero, PhD
Live Online | Wednesday, January 6 thru Friday, January 8, 2021
Advanced Skills Modular: Navigating AEDP’s Experiential-Attachment Work in the Context of Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity
Presented by: Kari Gleiser, PhD |Sunday December 13 – Monday December 14, 2020 | 2 full-days
Advanced Skills Modular Course: Using AEDP’s Representational Schemas to Scaffold the Therapist’s Presence, Persistence and Precision | Presented by: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT | October 2020
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in Israel May 2019 / November 2019
ES2 Retreat-Style Course in New York City April 2019 / September 2019
Advanced Skills 2-Day Modular Course: Live, OnlineTransforming Entrenched Defenses, Pathogenic Affects and Trauma States in AEDP Sold Out – to join the waiting list email us: admin@aedpinstitute.org
Presented by: SueAnne Piliero, PhD | Saturday, June 20 & Sunday, June 21, 2020 | 2 full-days
ES2 5-Weekend Course in New York City January 2019 thru May 2019
ES2 Advanced Skills Retreat-Style Course in Vancouver & Denver 2018 July 2018 / November 2018Befriending the AEDP Triangles: Using AEDP Representational Schemas to guide interventions and harness positive neuroplasticity
Presented by: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT
Friday December 8 – Sunday December 10, 2023