Diana Fosha Live Online: Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering

On 21 May 2026, MINDinMIND will host a live online Legacy Interview with Diana Fosha, developer of AEDP, joined by Stephen Porges, Ed Tronick, and Shigeru Iwakabe.

At the heart of Fosha’s work is a clinically precise idea: that aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is not just part of a patient’s history but part of the suffering itself. AEDP places the therapeutic relationship at the centre of transformation, creating the safety, warmth, and attunement in which the undoing of aloneness becomes possible.

This conversation, hosted by Jane O’Rourke, will move across the personal, theoretical, and clinical turning points that shaped AEDP. Expect reflections on transformance, metatherapeutic processing, and why noticing vitality from the very first session matters so much. The presence of Porges, Tronick, and Iwakabe brings the polyvagal, developmental, and empirical threads of AEDP into the same room.

For therapists working with trauma, attachment disturbance, and dissociation, this is a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of the most original thinkers in contemporary psychotherapy.

Event Details

  • Date: 21 May 2026
  • Time: 6PM to 8PM UK / 1PM to 3PM ET / 10AM to 12PM PT
  • Format: Live online, recording available to all ticket holders
  • CPD/CE: Two-hour certificate included

A subsidised ticket option is available, with further support for those in low income countries or experiencing financial hardship.

Register here

AEDP Institute is now an APA Approved CE Provider

AEDP Institute, is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. AEDP Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

AEDP Institute courses — including Immersion, Essential Skills, Advanced Skills, and eligible seminars — will now offer APA CE credits. 

APA approval reflects our commitment to offering rigorous, clinically grounded training that meets the highest professional standards in the field.

APA CE credits will be available for courses after April 22, 2026. Participants currently enrolled in an ongoing course are not eligible to receive APA CE credits for that course. 

Questions? Email Marilia at admin@aedpinstitute.org

New Issue Alert: Transformance: The AEDP Journal!

Transformance Journal – Volume 15, Issue 2 Now Available!

Dear Colleagues,

Danny Yeung and I are excited and proud to announce that the newest issue of Transformance: The AEDP Journal is now live on the website. 

We wish to thank our authors for bringing us these engaging, unique, and creatively inspired articles. You can find the new issue here: https://aedpinstitute.org/journal/the-international-cultural-volume-15-issue-2. 

Below are the contents: Enjoy! You will find much to surprise, move and intrigue you. 

If you feel inspired to do so, we’d welcome any reflections or responses you’d like to share on the listserv. While each article stands on its own, they also open space for ongoing conversation within our community.

This edition celebrates AEDP’s expanding global community and the universal power of transformation through connection.

— Carrie & Danny

Latest News: AEDP Institute Now Approved by ASWB!

We’re pleased to announce that AEDP Institute has been approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Social workers can again earn CE credits for our qualifying courses.

​Questions? Email Marilia at admin@aedpinstitute.org

New Volume: Journal Transformance

Transformance Journal – Volume 14 Now Available!

We’re delighted to announce the release of Transformance Journal, Volume 14, featuring powerful and deeply moving explorations of AEDP’s global reach and cultural resonance. This issue highlights how AEDP is being lived, practiced, and integrated across diverse contexts around the world — from Brazil to Sweden, Korea, China, and beyond.

Articles include: Click here to access journal

  • AEDP Fits Like a Glove: AEDP and Brazilian Culture — Regina Pontes & Maria Cândida Sobral Soares
  • To Make the Implicit Explicit and the Explicit a New Experience: My Discovery of AEDP in a Swedish Context — Anna Christina Sundgren
  • Transformation of Transgenerational Trauma: A Cross-Cultural Context — H. Jacquie Ye-Perman
  • On Sacred Ground: An AEDP Case Study with a Torah-Observant Jew — Leah Subar
  • From Symptom to Transformational Energy: Integrating Daoist Yin–Yang Perspective into AEDP’s Practice — Sabrina (Yunshuo) Wei
  • The Significance of the First Session Experience for Koreans in AEDP: Transformation Through Encounter and Recollection — So-Yeon Kim & Danny Yeung
  • After Freud Meets Zhuangzi: Stance and Dance of the Self-in-Transformation with the Other-in-Contemplative Presence — Danny Yeung, Diana Fosha, H. Jacquie Ye-Perman, Xu Yong

This edition celebrates AEDP’s expanding global community and the universal power of transformation through connection.

Julia Jalalat is now an AEDP Certified Therapist!!!

I had the good fortune of being Julia’s Certification supervisor working closely with her on the transcriptions of her work with her clients. Our discussions were lively and informative and educative for me as well as for Julia. Her ability to invite me fully into the sessions and feel the work with her was very powerful. 

 Julia is thoroughly engaged with her clients. On display in her work is her clinical skillfulness, her easeful attunement and the way in which that fosters a stance of secure attachment. Her work demonstrates how she weaves AEDP principles and skills into her practice with adept skill and authenticity. 

Her commanding and deeply caring presence is not something that can be taught. Julia lives into the work in a bold and deeply authentic relational way.

Ilene writes of her experience of working closely with Julia..

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Stephen McDonnell is now a certified AEDP Supervisor

Dear community,

It is a true pleasure and honor to announce that Stephen McDonnell is now a certified AEDP Supervisor.

I first got to know Stephen in the sixteen-session AEDP Research weekly supervision group. His attuned, gentle, and yet persistent work with clients stood out immediately. Over time, those same qualities became even more apparent in how he showed up as a peer in the group—finding just the right words to ease anxiety, highlight the positive, or offer another lens or intervention to fellow research therapists.

Watching Stephen step into the role of supervisor during the certification process only deepened what I already knew: he is a natural and gifted supervisor as well as a highly skilled AEDP therapist.

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Member Alert: Beware of Scam Emails

Member Alert: Beware of Scam Emails

We want to alert you that some members have recently received fraudulent emails claiming to:

  • Offer AEDP contact lists for sale
  • Ask you to sign documents
  • Invite you to click on links or open attachments

Please know that these messages are not from the AEDP Institute and are designed to scam or phish for personal information.

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Book Release: Deliberate Practice in AEDP

Published by APA

By Natasha C. N. Prenn, Hanna Levenson, Alexandre Vaz, and Tony Rousmaniere

Overview: Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy skills and apply them in a variety of contexts while honing their own personal style.

These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

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Congratulations to Tammy Siu Ling Choi – newly Certified Therapist.

It is my great pleasure to announce that Tammy Choi from Hong Kong is now an AEDP Certified Therapist.  Following are comments from her two certification reviewers, from Tammy herself and finally from me – her Certification Supervisor:

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