Become an AEDP Certified Supervisor

The Supervisor Certification pathway is a two-phase process:

Become a Supervisor-in-Training → Graduate to become an AEDP Certified Supervisor

Your Pathway at a Glance

Phase 1: Apply to become a Supervisor-in-Training

To apply you must be a certified therapist for a minimum of 1 year and complete the following in that year prior to applying:

1) Assist in 1 Immersion + 3 Essential Skills (ES1) modules. Receive positive feedback from participants + Lead Assistants

2) Read Supervision Essentials of AEDP by Natasha Prenn, LCSW & Diana Fosha, PhD

3) Identify 2 Supervisors of Supervision. At least one AEDP Faculty member, ideally one Certified Supervisor who has been a supervisor for at least two year) Each supervisor will Provide 10+ hours reviewing your videotaped supervision sessions
Evaluate using the certification rubric

4) Complete an application form and submit to Carolyn, our AEDP Certification Coordinator

5) Ongoing Expectation– 🤝 Stay actively engaged in the AEDP community

Phase 2: Graduate to Certified Supervisor

1) Complete 20+ hours of supervision of supervision.

  • ✔️at least on must be AEDP Faculty
  • ✔️ideally you will work with at least one supervisor who you have not worked with before. If you choose not to do this, please explain why in your application.
  • ✔️ No maximum hours, continue until certification readiness

2) Continue experiential assisting

  • ✔️ 1 Immersion
  • ✔️ 5 Essential Skills (ES1) Modules
  • ✔️ 1 Advanced Skills Module (ASM)

3) Add one Additional AEDP Contribution

  • ✔️Guest presentation
  • ✔️ Regional engagement
  • ✔️ Participation in AEDP research
  • ✔️ Writing for Transformance Journal (or other publication)
  • ✔️ Presenting a Clinicians’ Corner
  • ✔️ Teaching or co-teaching
  • Or another AEDP-approved professional contribution

4) Submit 2 recommendation letters, one from each supervisor, confirming your readiness for certification along with your updated assisting hours and your additional AEDP activity

5) Submit a project demonstrating supervisory competence: Include

  • ✔️ Recorded supervision sessions
  • ✔️ Microanalysis aligned with the Certification Rubric
  • ✔️ Must demonstrate all 7 rubric competencies
  • ✔️ AEDP Supervisory Stance must be evident throughout

Project Requirements

🎥 Video Submission

➡️ Submit 1–2 unedited clips

  • ✔️ one clip: 15–25 minutes
  • ✔️ Total time: 30–50 minutes
  • ✔️ Must include supervision of recorded therapy sessions

📌 Why recordings?
They allow for direct, accurate evaluation of clinical work

📝 Microanalysis (Choose One)

➡️ Written Option

  • ✔️ Time-stamped transcript with analysis
  • ✔️ Clearly reference and “check off” each element of the Certification Rubric during your discussion. Refer to the section on noting your skills

OR

➡️ Oral (Zoom) Option

  • ✔️ 60 – 75 minute zoom video recording of an oral presentation where you present your microanalysis of the screen-shared video recorded session(s) to one of your supervisors. (with or without supervisor present in the video)
  • ✔️ Screen-shared video with commentary
  • ✔️ Clearly reference and “check off” each element of the Certification Rubric during your discussion. Refer to the section on noting your skills

✍️ Notating Your Skills

➡️ Balance:

  • ✔️ Naming interventions
  • ✔️ Briefly explaining key clinical decisions

✨ Highlight:

  • Why you chose specific interventions
  • How they reflect AEDP principles

Submission Process

📩 When ready, email Carolyn with:

  • ✔️ 2 recommendation letters
  • ✔️ Updated assisting hours
  • ✔️ AEDP-related activity

➡️ You will receive instructions to upload materials to AEDP Dropbox

➡️ Your full application is then reviewed by the
Supervisor Review Board

💳 Application Fee

➡️ $300 fee
➡️ Invoice sent after materials are uploaded

Review & Certification

📅 The Review Board meets quarterly

✔️ Applications are reviewed in the next 3-month cycle after submission

🎉 Upon approval, you will receive:

  • Formal letter of recognition
  • AEDP Supervisor Certificate
  • Announcement in the AEDP community
  • Listing on the Certified Supervisors webpage
  • Access to Supervisors Google Group

📩 Questions? Contact Carolyn

-Michael Mondoro-

“AEDP supervisors are taught an expert “recipe” for well-rounded, left-brain and right-brain learning. The same tenets of creating a delicious meal apply to AEDP supervision and training: explicit care, measurement, and balance are key. What is created together is a transformative, visceral, and professionally effective experience that — in one moment — therapeutically strengthens the core self of the therapist, nurturing emergent professional potential, receptive affective capacity, presence and psychological flexibility — and in the next — is infused with AEDP theory and essential skills, connected to the viewing of the videotaped client and session being shared between us”

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