“The AEDP Essential Skills course is absolutely one of the best psychotherapy trainings I have ever done. The format is a perfect balance of didactics, video observation and experiential practice (doing it!), with loads of supportive individual attention and feedback. I can’t recommend this training enough!”
– Victoria Lemie Beckner, PhD
The Essential Skills (ES1) Course is a certification course designed for licensed AEDP level 1 Immersion graduates
Upcoming Essential Skills Courses – Registration is Open!
APRIL 2024
Designed for: Graduates of AEDP Immersion
CE’s / AEDP Certification Credit: 85 CE | Counts toward AEDP Certification
Live Online: April 12, 2024 – January 13, 2025
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JUNE 2024
Designed for: Graduates of AEDP Immersion
CE’s / AEDP Certification Credit: 85 CE | Counts toward AEDP Certification
Live Online: June 21, 2024 – January 20, 2025
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AUGUST 2024
Designed for: Graduates of AEDP Immersion
CE’s / AEDP Certification Credit: 85 CE | Counts toward AEDP Certification
Live Online: August 2, 2024 – March 24, 2025
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Who the Essential Skills Course is for:
Essential Skills is for Immersion Grads who are 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 licensed mental health practitioners include: Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Doctors, Nurses, Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals.
*Every country / state / province has different rules regarding licensing. While AEDP™ Institute is generally familiar with navigating the licensing process in the U.S., we are not familiar with the process and regulations in most other countries. Our practice is to consult local AEDP practitioners for information on the nuances of education, licensing and other regulations in their areas.
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 with your credentials before registering. For information about whether this course offers Continuing Education credits for your license, see each course page.
Course Overview:
AEDP Essential Skills course will provide practical skills for the application of AEDP as well as a thorough immersion in the theory underlying the practice. 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. Each day’s teaching will include didactic presentations of theory along with video of actual sessions conducted by AEDP Faculty followed by small group experiential exercises.
Instructional Methodology:
AEDP skills are introduced with their theoretical foundations and then with illustrations by way of clinical videotapes; skills are then practiced in group experiential exercises. In online courses, exceptionally effective experiential exercises are held in online “breakout rooms.”
Faculty, Experiential Assistants and Clinical Video:
These are the hallmarks of all AEDP trainings. 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. Participants deeply appreciate how effectively faculty presenters’ clinical video demonstrates “AEDP in action.” And faculty have skilled accompaniment from a large number of Experiential Assistants. Participants rave about the excellent attention and support they receive in this unique learning environment.
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Essential Skills (Mango) February – October 2024
Presented by: H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, PhD, Kari Gleiser, PhD, Ronald Frederick, PhD, Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, Richard Harrison, PhD
Module 1 begins February 22 thru October 27, 2024 |Times: 5:30:00 – 10:00 PM EST USA
Essential Skills November 2023 – July 2024
Presented by: Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Annika Medbo, MA, Kari Gleiser, PhD, Richard Harrison, PhD, Sigal Bahat, MA
Module 1 begins November 3, 2023 thru July 15, 2024 |Times: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST USA
Essential Skills October 2023 – May 2024
Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW, Mary Androff, MD Karen Pando-Mars, MFT and Ben Medley, LCSW
October 6, 2023 thru May 13, 2024 | Friday – Monday | 12:00 – 4:30 EST USA
Past AEDP Essential Skills (ES1) Courses
- ES1 April 2023 – January 2024- Presented by: Ronald Frederick, PhD, Anna Christina Sundgren, MA, Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, Richard Harrison, PhD, Sigal Bahat, MA
April 21 2023 thru January 8, 2024 (formerly February 17, 2023 thru October 30, 2023) - https://aedpinstitute.org/aedp-essential-skills-course-march-november-2023-2/ES1 March 2023- November 2023 Presented by: Richard Harrison, PhD, Sigal Bahat, MA, Ronald Frederick, PhD, Annika Medbo, Psych, Kari Gleiser, PhD.
Module 1 begins March 3, 2023 thru November 13, 2023 - November 2022 | June 2023 Presented by: Ben Medley, LCSW, Anna Christina Sundgren, MA, Kate Halliday, LCSW , Annika Medbo, MA
Module 1 begins November 4, 2022; Module 5 ends June 12, 2023 - September 2022- June 2023 Presented by: Ben Medley, LCSW, Mary Androff, MD, Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Kate Halliday, LCSW
Module 1 begins September 16, 2022; Module 5 ends June 26, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST - October 2022- May 2023 Presented by: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT, Kari Gleiser PhD, Ben Medley, LCSW | Module 1 begins October 7, 2022; Module 5 ends May 15, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern Time USA
June 2022 – March 2023 Presented by: Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA, Sigal Bahat, MA, Ronald Frederick, PhD, Richard Harrison, R.Psych & Kari Gleiser, PhD | Mod 1 begins June 10 – March 13, 2023 - LIVE ONLINE: February – October 2022 | Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW, Benjamin Lipton, LCSW, Annika Medbo, PhD | February 18; Module 5 ends October 29, 2022
- LIVE ONLINE: April – September 2022 | Presented by: Richard Harrison, PhD, Sigal Bahat, MA, Diana Fosha, PhD, Ronald Frederick, PhD, Benjamin Lipton, LCSW | April 1; Module 5 ends Sept 12, 2022
- LIVE ONLINE: July – December, 2021 | Presented by: Ronald Frederick
Module 1 starts July 23; Module 5 ends December 13, 2021 - LIVE ONLINE: April –September 2021 | Presented by: Kate Halliday, LCSW plus AEDP Guest Presenters Module 1 begins April 16, 2021; Module 5 ends September 2021
- Essential Skills (ES1)Feb 2021- June 2021 | Co-Sponsored by: AEDP Institute and AEDP Australia
Presented by: Karen Pando-Mars, MFT + Guest Faculty Kate Halliday, LCSW and Dale Trimble, MA - Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | November 2020 thru June 2021 | Co-sponsored by AEDP Brazil | Compatible time zones: the Americas & Brazil | Karen Kranz, PhD plus AEDP Guest Presentations
- Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | July 2020 & February 2021 | Presented by Karen Pando-Mars, MFT & Ben Medley, LCSW | Formerly scheduled for London
- Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | August 2020 & January 2021 | Compatible time zones: the Americas – especially east coast | Presented by Ben Medley, LCSW and Jerry Lamagna, LCSW plus AEDP Guest Presenters | Formerly Scheduled for New York City
- Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | July & December 2020 | Presented by Jeanne Newhouse, NCPsyA and Karen Kranz, | Formerly scheduled for Denver
- Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | July & November 2020 | Presented by Karen Pando-Mars, MFT & Ben Medley, LCSW |Formerly scheduled for London
- Essential Skills (ES1) LIVE ONLINE | June & October 2020 | Presented by Ronald Frederick Formerly scheduled for Los Angeles
- Essential Skills (ES1) Three-Long-Weekends 10 Day Course in New York City October 2019 / January 2020 / May 2020 moved online
- Essential Skills (ES1) 10-day Retreat-Style Course in New York City November 2019 / March 2020 – moved online!
- ES1 Three-Long-Weekends Course in Boston, MA, USA: March 2019 / June 2019 / October 2019
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Los Angeles, CA, USA: January 2019 / May 2019
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in London, UK : December 2018 / April 2019
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: August 2018 / December 2018
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: May 2018 / October 2018
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in San Francisco, CA, USA: March 2018 / July 2018
- ES1 Retreat-Style Course in Denver, CO, USA: 2017 – 2018
- ES1 Essential Skills Retreat-Style Course in Vancouver, BC, CA: July 2017 / December 2017
- ES1 Retreat Style Course in Durham, NC, USA: February 2017 / June 2017
- ES1 Essential Skills Retreat-Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2016 – 2017
- ES1 Essential Skills 5-weekends in New York City, NY, USA: 2016 – 2017
- ES1 Retreat Style Course in Shanghai, China: 2016 – 2017
- ES1 Essential Skills Course in Europe: Stockholm, Sweden & Parma Italy: 2016 – 2017
- ES1 Essential Skills San Francisco Bay, CA, USA: 2015 – 2016
- ES1 Essential Skills Course in Boston, MA, USA: 2015 – 2016
- ES1 Essential Skills Retreat Style Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2015 – 2016
- ES1 Essential Skills Course in Vancouver, BC, USA: 2014 – 2015
- ES1 Essential Skills Course in New York City, NY, USA: 2014 – 2015
- Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • New York
- Essential Skills • 2013-2014 • West Coast
- Essential Skills • 2012-2013 • Vancouver, BC
*Prior to 2021 the Institute allowed some individuals the following exception to taking Immersion prior to ES1: “if you are committed to learning AEDP and have not yet taken Immersion, please complete the recorded webinar Intro to AEDP prior to starting ES1. Note, however, that Intro to AEDP is by no means a substitute for Immersion and Immersion is a requirement for AEDP certification. You will earn 6 CE for taking the recorded Intro to AEDP webinar and when you complete it you may request a $100 credit towards a future Immersion course.” Starting in January, 2021 this alternative is no longer offered.