Congratulations Magda Evans, AEDP® Certified Therapist

November 18, 2024

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing this letter, in my capacity as Magda Evans’ certification supervisor, to confirm

Magda’s readiness to have her certification application advance to the review process.

I have been supporting Magda as her certification supervisor since February, 2024. Magda

has also worked closely in AEDP supervision with Malin Endredi, for many years and

throughout the cerrtification process. Malin’s comments are included later in this letter.

Magda is a skilled and sensitive AEDP therapist with exceptional tracking skills. She is very

steady and spacious in her work and in her warm, heartfelt, caring presence on behalf of

her patients. Magda’s clinical videos demonstrate a deep trust in the experiential process

and in somatic, embodied work. Her patients trust her deeply, and in both clinical tapes,

she helps coregulate patients so they can have new and corrective experiences of

connection to self, in connection to her. And to face and move through core aPective

experiences that were too overwhelming for patients to face alone. Magda notices and

focuses on moments of positive change and expands these through metatherapeutic

processing. She holds space for and resonates with patients when they are in core state.

She has a tremendous appetite for learning and growth – her own and that of her patients. A

growing edge for Magda has been to work dyadically and experientially with relational

experience and receptive aPective experience, in addition to somatic work with embodied

categorical emotion and the patient’s individual aPective experience. Her understanding of

the importance of this component of AEDP theory and practice has expanded and

deepened through the process of reviewing her certification tapes and annotating her

transcripts.

Magda’s tape with an early patient illustrates her sensitive and skilled work with a person

with a significant trauma history who experiences moments of disorganization. Her video

demonstrates multiple AEDP change processes and interventions: gentle and persistent

co-creation of safety, close moment-to-moment tracking, co-regulation of anxiety,

embodied experiential work, dyadic aPect regulation, aPirmative defense work, facilitating

core aPective experience (receptive aPective experience, connection to self and to

therapist, feeling and dealing while relating), and state 3 work, exploring and expanding

transformational aPects through metaprocessing.

In her tape with a mid-treatment patient, Magda helps the patient shift from an internal

experience of “chaos” to one of self-trust, excitement, and coherence. The patient, who

has never lived on her own (and who has a long history of debilitating physical ailments) is

in the middle of a frightening divorce from her husband, a successful businessman. Magda

invites imaginal work and oPers her own image to help co-regulate and organize the

patient, who then has a spontaneous memory of childhood. The session unfolds from there

under Magda’s guidance, and the patient experiences new felt confidence, exploratory zest

for what lies ahead, and extended, deep core state deep calm knowing, truth sense, and

integration.

Here are Malin Endredi’s reflections on her work with Magda Evans:

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.

From our start I’ve been struck by Magda’s warm presence and care for her clients. It’s

running as a red thread throughout, making her an ePicient 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, her wisdom, creativity, playfulness and sense of humor have come to the fourth.

Magda has been an Experiential Assistant several times and as such been highly

appreciated for her calm gentleness, warmth and her way of sharing her knowledge.

Magda 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 ePiciently with the transcripts, showing her

theoretical understanding of AEDP. She is very self-reflecting and has been asking for

comments and advice, very eager to get everything right.

I’m grateful that AEDP Faculty Richard Harrison had the opportunity to come in with his

expertise and a second pair of eyes on Magda’s Certification Package.

The tape with the early, second session client is quite recent. Compared with the other,

older tape, we can see how Magda’s AEDP skills have grown. In the transcript she is selfreflective

and sees the choice points she might have taken now.

Both of Magda’s tapes are very moving to me. In the second session tape the client reaches

third state with a dip into core state. She moves from paralysis with attacking voices to

feeling calmer and feeling her energy of life. Magda’s calm, gentle presence and her

creativity and humor made it possible.

In the other, mid therapy tape, the client moves from feeling chaotic and unsure of herself

to oscillating between third and core state. Magda holds her and supports her in the

process in a very skillful way, gently making it move forward. For every round core state is

deepened.

The client lands in a solid, realistic trust in herself and her ability to face what might come

her way. Internal secure attachment created!

None of Magda’s tapes have edits.

Richard and I certainly think that Magda Evans is ready to send in her package for

certification review!

Kind regards,

Richard Harrison and Malin Endredi

PS: Malin’s contact information is:

Malin Endredi

AEDP Supervisor

Email address: endredimalin@gmail.com

Cell phone: +46706409996