Becoming an
AEDP® Certified Supervisor
What you need to know and do to join our esteemed group of Certified Supervisors
Embarking on the path to become an AEDP Certified Supervisor is a transformative journey that elevates your clinical practice and professional standing. This rigorous process not only enhances your therapeutic skills but also positions you to mentor and guide other therapists in their AEDP practice. As you advance through the stages of certification, you’ll experience profound personal and professional growth, deepening your understanding and mastery of AEDP principles. This journey is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of both your clients and fellow therapists, contributing to the ever-growing AEDP community.
“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”
-Michael Mondoro-
AEDP Supervisor in Training Guidelines | Updated 12/30/2025
To apply for the AEDP Supervisor-in-Training track, applicants must be AEDP Certified Therapists for at least one year and meet the following requirements within the year prior to applying.
Requirements for Eligibility to Become a Supervisor-in-Training
- Experiential Assisting: You must assist in at least one Immersion and three ES1 modules, with positive feedback from both participants and Lead Assistants.(By the time you apply for full Supervisor Certification, you must have assisted at least three additional times, also with positive reviews plus one additional AEDP related activity, see below)
- For non-English-speaking candidates or those in time zones that make assisting in Institute sponsored courses extremely challenging: you must have an equivalent amount of assisting in Institute-recognized training (online or in person), supervision groups, or core training with positive feedback. If needed, you may contact the AEDP Certification Committee to discuss alternatives.
- Read Supervision Essentials of AEDP by Natasha Prenn and Diana Fosha.
- Identify two Supervisors of Supervision – at least one must be AEDP faculty – who agree to supervise you through the Supervisor Certification process. Ideally, you should work with at least one supervisor you haven’t worked with before. If you choose otherwise, please explain your reasons in the application.
Each supervisor of supervision will need to:
- Commit to providing a minimum of 10 hours of supervision of your videotaped supervision sessions (no maximum; you will receive as many hours as needed to reach readiness).
- Complete this joint application form and then you will submit it to AEDP Administrator [carolyn.f@aedpinstitute.org])
- Evaluate your progress and give honest feedback vs. this rubric of requirements
- One of the two supervisors will also help you prepare and review your Supervisor Certification Culminating Project before submission.
- Submit your Supervisor-in-Training application to Carolyn Fitzgerald – admin team member responsible for certification – who will verify your a) hours of experiential assisting and participant feedback, b) Lead EA letters, and c) any required documentation from your licensing board or insurer (if applicable). If everything is in order, Carolyn will pass your application on to the Supervisor Certification Review Board.
- The Board will review the balance of your application and get back to you with questions and concerns, or, if approved, a member of the Certification Review Board will formally welcome you as a designated AEDP Supervisor-in-Training. Your name along with a picture and bio will be added to the Supervisor webpage and your email address will be added to the Supervisor-in-Training directory, to the google group findasupervisor@aedpinstitute.org, and to the google group Supervisors-in-training@aedpinstitute.org.
Important notes:
-Supervisors-in-Training may provide supervision to therapists at any level. A maximum of 10 total supervision hours—whether received from one or multiple Supervisors-in-Training—may be applied toward AEDP Level 3 supervision requirements.
-Supervisors-in-Training may offer additional supervision beyond these 10 hours, which is encouraged for skill development and consultation; however, these additional hours do not count toward Level 3 requirements or Certification.NOTE: Supervisors-in-Training may not serve as Certification Supervisors for level 3 therapists going for certification.
To Graduate from Supervisor in Training to Certified Supervisor | Updated 12/30/2025
(The anticipated time frame for certification as a Supervisor is two (2) years after becoming a Supervisor in Training though it may take longer)
- Complete a minimum of 20 hours of supervision of supervision: at least 10 hours with each of your two supervisors of supervision, at least one of whom is a faculty member. (Note: there is no maximum number of hours. Whatever is needed for readiness for certification is the “maximum.”)
- Complete Experiential Assisting in a minimum of 1 Immersion, 5 ES1 modules and 1 Advanced Skills module* (of these, the Immersion and 3 modules of the 5 ES1’s were required to apply to become supervisor in training.) and
- Complete one additional AEDP activity while you are a Supervisor in Training: e.g., guest presentation, regional engagement, participation in the AEDP Research project, write a Transformance Journal article or another published piece, present a Clinicians Corner, Teach, etc.)
- Upon completion of the items above, obtain a written recommendation from each of your two Supervisors of Supervision stating your readiness to be Certified.
- Submit your Culminating Project: video recording(s) and microanalysis of your supervision: To demonstrate supervisory readiness, candidates must submit video recordings of supervision that provide evidence – per the certification rubric – of all seven required rubric items (see rubric). The AEDP Supervisory Stance (Item 1) must be evident in all submitted videos, and the AEDP spirit should be present throughout.
- Candidates may submit one or two unedited video clips from one or two supervision sessions. Each unedited clip must be 15–25 minutes in length, for a total submission time of 30–50 minutes.
- Either attach a microanalysis in written format (a time stamped transcript with analysis) or submit a 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 or both of your supervisors. For Zoom / oral presentations, be sure to carefully track and verbally “check off” each element of the certification rubric during your discussion. You may record either with or without a supervisor
- Candidates may submit one or two unedited video clips from one or two supervision sessions. Each unedited clip must be 15–25 minutes in length, for a total submission time of 30–50 minutes.
- Once you are ready to submit your Culminating Project, email carolynf@aedpinstitute.org and she will provide an AEDP Dropbox link where you will upload: your Culminating Project, your two recommendations (one from each supervisor of supervision) your updated Experiential Assistant hours, and a copy of your original application to become a Supervisor-in-Training, and
- A $300 application fee will apply; Carolyn Fitzgerald (Institute admin) will issue a stripe or PayPal invoice once your package is uploaded
- Carolyn will share your dropbox link and the two written recommendation letters, one from each of your supervisors of supervision with the AEDP Certification Review Board.
- The Board meets quarterly to review applications and announce newly certified supervisors. Dates for submission and announcements are on the website. If your project is submitted before a deadline, it will be reviewed in the next three-month cycle.
Upon Certification, you will: Receive a letter of congratulations and an AEDP achievement certificate; Have your certification announced to the AEDP community listserv; Be added to both the AEDP Certified Supervisors webpage as a Supervisor and added to the Supervisors Google group.
*Note: Typically, a person cannot assist in an ASM until they have completed 10 ES1 modules. If assisting in an ASM is needed to meet this requirement but 10 ES1 assists have not yet been completed, an exception may be requested
download guidelines here