November 18, 2024
On behalf of Malin Endrédi and myself, it is my tremendous pleasure to announce that Magda Evans is now a certified AEDP Therapist! Malin has been Magda’s primary supervisor, and each of their reflections on their journey together are included below. I (Richard) have had the honour of supporting Magda as her certification supervisor, which has been a joy. Magda is remarkably steady, sensitive, spacious, and artful in her clinical work; and her warm, heartfelt, caring presence on behalf of her patients is powerful. She has a deep trust in the experiential process and in somatic, embodied work, and a thorough understanding of AEDP. Moreover, I am in awe of her exceptional tracking skills! Magda also has a tremendous appetite for learning and growth – her own and that of her patients. There’s so much more I could say, but instead, I encourage you to take in the richness of what follows below!
Here’s what Malin Endrédi shared about her experience of supervising Magda:
I have been meeting with Magda Evans as her supervisor for about five years.
This journey has been a true delight for me. Magda has always shown tapes and I’ve been impressed by her work.From our start I’ve been struck by Magda’s warm presence and care for her clients. It’s been running as a red thread throughout, making her an efficient psychotherapist.
Magda’s first training was Integrative Therapy and she has been working for a long time as a psychotherapist.It’s been lovely to see Magda shifting into AEDP. The more Magda has embodied AEDP, and its tools and its stance, her wisdom, creativity, playfulness and sense of humor have come to the fore. I see Magda mastering the work in all four stages with embodied presence. Her very attuned, calm and regulating ways are helping her clients to stay within the window of tolerance, relinquish entranced defences and dare to try something new. Magda captiours these glimmers and makes the most of them by guiding the clients to have a felt sense of it. I’m impressed by Magdas’ way of staying with and deepening Core State and helping her clients to self trust and earned secure attachment.
Magda has been an Experiential Assistant several times and as such has been highly appreciated for her calm gentleness, warmth and her way of sharing her knowledge.
She has a beautiful ability in expressing and receiving gratitude. This is important both as a psychotherapist and a human being.
Magda has an impressively strong strive to learn and grow. This has really shown up during the certification process that we started in 2023. It’s been fun to choose among all tapes together with Magda. She’s been working efficiently with the transcripts, showing her theoretical understanding of AEDP. She is very self-reflecting and has been eager to get everything right. We’ve had interesting discussions. The certification journey has been one of learning and growing, just the way it’s meant to be.
Both of Magda’s certification tapes are very moving to me and impressive, none of them have edits.
As Magda and I are continuing to work together, I have called out a few times: Magda this is another certification tape!
Comments from AEDP certification reviewers
Reviewer #1: Magda’s work is beautiful, healing and highly moving to witness. Her consistent attunement, patience, respect, gentleness, somatic focus, kind non-intrusive presence, ability to let the patient’s process guide the work are interwoven throughout both videos. She displays a deep grasp of AEDP principles and skills and fully embodies the AEDP ethos. I wholeheartedly recommend her certification and fully expect her to move on to supervisor when she is ready. I applaud all the effort and learnings she’s made to complete this process.
Reviewer #2:
Magda’s work is beautiful, subtle, quiet, authentic and deep. Having spent my morning immersed in Magda‘s work, I feel deep appreciation and gratitude for my involvement with AEDP.
A statement of Magda’s client in her later treatment stage tape describing the client‘s own internal experience in the moment perfectly describes Magda’s way of working as well: „There is such a lovely stillness about it, as if it was meant to be that way.“ Magda’s capacity for deep listening and hearing, for creating space and time for transformatve unfolding of her clients‘ experience, shines out in her material. If I were to create a business card for Magda it might draw on a statement of her early treatment stage client: „Magda Evans: Believable Presence!“
Though mastery is not required for initial certification as an AEDP therapist, Magda’s work is truly masterful. The steady accuracy of her moment-to-moment tracking which guides her interventions at choice points; her exquisite parts work and lending of her own affective capacity to her clients; her ability to titrate the pressure of her presence to make possible new experiences of healing in relationship; her skillful use of psychoedulcational, supportive, somatic, imaginal and relational interventions, and above all, her exquisite capacity for attunement with clients with very different levels of affective capacity: this and more demonstrates that Magda has attained a level of mastery as an AEDP therapist
Magda’s reflections on her AEDP journey:
“Having seen Diana’s presentation at the Attachment and Trauma conference in London 2017, I felt I had found my next direction as a psychotherapist. Over the last 7yrs I have attended AEDP courses, participated as an EA on many trainings, am part of the UK AEDP cohort and continue to engage in a peer group. During this time I have been weaving, in particular, the relational and positivity processes into my therapeutic work, having trained originally as an integrative psychotherapist, whereas, I have been using the AEDP model more specifically for those clients who have requested that therapy.
For me, AEDP has expanded my understanding on psychobiological change processes and increased my relational connection to my clients. When I started working in this model my growth edge was working somatically in a deeper and more relational way followed by broadening and building the positive emotions in my clients, as well as, trusting the process. So I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge, with many thanks, faculty members whose presentations and teachings enriched my knowledge and learning throughout this journey: Diana Fosha, Kate Halliday, Ben Medley, Karen Pando Mars, Jerry Lamagna, Steve Shapiro, kari Gleiser, Ben Lipton, Karen Kranz, and Annika Medbo.
While my comprehension of AEDP has been strengthened and honed during this certification process it has also highlighted that I can be more flexible and adaptable in the way that I use the model, especially when spontaneous events happen in sessions e.g. attending to unexpected transformance glimmers, relational experiences and distractions in the here and now. And this is what I’m growing now.
Huge thanks go to Malin Endredi, my supervisor for nearly 5 years, from whom I have learned so much. Malin’s calm, warm, gentle presence, together with her knowledge and attention to detail, has supported and guided me throughout and, furthermore, encouraged me into becoming certified in this model. Our work together continued with the certification process and I remain in supervision with her.
I am also deeply grateful to Richard Harrison for his expertise, heart, and helpfulness throughout the latter part of this process.”
Please join Malin and me in congratulating Magda on this significant achievement and well-deserved recognition. You can do so by writing to her directly at: magdaevans@blueyonder.co.uk
Brava Magda!
Warmly,
Malin Endrédi and Richard Harrison