AEDP Updates & News
🧠 AEDP Quarterly Newsletter
Fall 2025 – Highlights & Insights
Welcome to this season’s edition of AEDP Updates & News!
The leaves are turning, and so is the pulse of our community. This quarter, AEDP continues to grow, inspire, and transform. From new books and international milestones to cutting-edge research and the voices of our clinicians, there’s plenty to celebrate—and reflect on. Dive in to see what’s happening in the living, evolving world of AEDP—before this moment passes!
📚 Fresh Off the Press: AEDP Books & Media You Can’t Miss
Tailoring Treatment to Attachment Patterns: Healing Trauma in Relationship
By Karen Pando-Mars & Diana Fosha (Norton)
Endorsements: Diana Fosha, Rick Hanson, Stephen Porges, Richard C. Schwartz, Bob Marvin
A practical guide for therapists who want to match treatment to the unique attachment patterns of each client.
→ [Learn more »]
Deliberate Practice in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
By Natasha C. N. Prenn, Hanna Levenson, Alexandre Vaz & Tony Rousmaniere (APA)
Endorsements: Diana Fosha, Hilary Jacobs-Hendel
Harnessing deliberate practice to take AEDP skills to the next level.
→ [Explore here »]
Inviting the Spirit of Play to Transform Trauma: Healing for All Ages
By Monica C. Blum (Routledge)
Endorsements: Diana Fosha, Dan Siegel
Playful, creative approaches to trauma work across the lifespan.
→ [Find out more »]
Parents Have Feelings, Too
By Hilary Jacobs-Hendel (Alcove Press)
Endorsements: Diana Fosha, Bruce Perry, Lindsay Gibson
Helping parents tune into their own emotional lives to support healthier relationships.
→ [Discover more »]
🎓 Mark Your Calendar: AEDP Courses & Gatherings
Immersion Course – Winter 2026
With [Faculty] – Online & In-Person Options
Unlock the foundation skills of AEDP and connect with colleagues around the world.
→ [Register today »]
Advanced Skills Modules
Various topics, January–March 2026
Deepen your practice and explore targeted interventions with senior faculty.
→ [View full schedule »]
Essential Skills (ES1) Modules
Spring 2026 cohort opening soon
Hands-on learning, deliberate practice, and peer engagement.
→ [Learn more »]
🌏 Global Footprints: AEDP in Action Abroad
Japanese Immersion Course Milestone
AEDP’s international reach continues to expand! Our recent Immersion course in Japan marked an important step in supporting the global AEDP community. Faculty and participants alike celebrated the cross-cultural exchange of ideas and clinical wisdom.
→ [See photos & recap »]
🔬 Research That Shapes Practice
AEDP + Mt. Sinai: Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Research
Our collaboration with Mt. Sinai explores the synergy of AEDP with ketamine-assisted interventions. Stay tuned for insights from Diana, Kari, and Mark as this research develops.
Recent Publications to Explore
- Ronen-Setter, I. H. (2025). Arcs of transformation: Taxonomy of affective change using AEDP. Practice Innovations.
Read it here » - Medley, B. (2024). AEDP: A Model of Change and Transformation in Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma (Routledge).
Explore this chapter »
👥 Faces of AEDP: Stories from Our Community
[Member Name] – [Location or Role]
“AEDP has changed the way I witness my clients’ healing journeys. Every session feels like a collaborative exploration.”
Do you want to be featured or nominate a colleague? [Submit a story »]
🗳️ Committee & Institute News
Steering Committee Updates
- Welcoming new members: [Names]
- Current initiatives: Enhancing DEI in AEDP training, expanding international accessibility
→ [Learn more »]
CE & Professional Development Updates
Our CE offerings continue to evolve—watch for new webinars, workshops, and online courses in the coming months.
🎥 Watch, Read, Explore: AEDP in Media This Season
New Video Release:
🎬 Issues of Agency in AEDP – Eileen M. Russell, PhD
Available through APA and the AEDP member library.
→ [Watch now »]
ICYMI:
Missed a recent publication or webinar? Check out:
- [Link to past webinar, article, or podcast]
🌱 The Living Pulse of AEDP
“AEDP is alive in each encounter—where theory meets practice, research informs wisdom, and the next generation of insights emerges through our collective exploration.”
Thank you for being part of this growing, vibrant, and transformative community.
→ Stay connected on our [AEDP News & Updates Page]
💌 Stay in Touch
Have news, achievements, or reflections to share? We’d love to hear from you.
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Congratulations Elley Newton, LCSW-R– now an AEDP Certified Therapist!
Dear Beloved Community,
It is with the utmost joy and delight that I and Kate Halliday bring you the announcement that Elley Newton is now an AEDP Certified Therapist!
I have had the good fortune of being Elley’s certification supervisor and can wholeheartedly attest to her excellence as an AEDP Certified Therapist. Elley possesses all the qualities as a person as well as a therapist that you would want in a relationship. Elley brings such a warm, caring presence that is both respectful and grounding. She is highly attuned, regulating and tracks the process so skillfully. Elley’s client’s feel so accompanied by her and she is a wonderful transformance detector who is always on the lookout for those glimmers to cultivate. Elley is also highly self-reflective and open to learning.
Continue reading “Congratulations Elley Newton, LCSW-R– now an AEDP Certified Therapist!”Congratulations John Wiskind- Certified Supervisor!
May 5th, 2025
It is with immense pleasure that Ben Lipton and I announce that John Wiskind is now a Certified AEDP Supervisor!!!
Of his work, John’s reviewers wrote…
“John Wiskind demonstrates the relational presence, cultural sensitivity, and faithful use of AEDP models that the Institute requires for supervisor certification. His rich clinical excerpts exemplify how he privileges positive affect, undoes aloneness, and scaffolds supervisees’ emerging capacities.”
AEDP® Advanced Skills March 2025
AEDP®Advanced Skills March 2025
“The Therapist as Organizing Other: Regulating and building self-structure in dysregulated clients through an AEDP lens”
Presented by Jennifer Edlin, MFT
Choose from two live online options:
Full Course: Friday thru Monday | March 14 – 17, 2025
Seminar Only: Friday & Sunday | March 14 + 16, 2025
Seminar: Undoing Disempowerment | Cultivating Agency in AEDP®
Presented by Eileen Russell, PhD
Friday January 24, 2024- Monday 27, 2025
Live Online and Highly Interactive
Course Description:
Internalized experiences of trauma, neglect, or oppression can severely impair one’s access to and expression of one’s emotions, as well as the sense of safety with oneself and others. But these experiences, as well as subtler, but chronic, experiences of not being seen or recognized, can also impair the development of the sense of the self being an agent in the world and in one’s own life. Even as one develops a connection to and capacity for one’s own feelings, people can still feel like “guests in their own lives.”
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