Thank you @jordanfstephens for sharing about how AEDP has impacted your life and @hilaryjacobshendel for sharing the Change Triangle with him. We love hearing stories of how AEDP is working for people. Keep sharing and telling us how!
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
This edition celebrates AEDP’s expanding global community and the universal power of transformation through connection.
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!
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Immersion Course – Winter 2026
With [Faculty] – Online & In-Person Options
Unlock the foundation skills of AEDP and connect with colleagues around the world.
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Advanced Skills Modules
Various topics, January–March 2026
Deepen your practice and explore targeted interventions with senior faculty.
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Essential Skills (ES1) Modules
Spring 2026 cohort opening soon
Hands-on learning, deliberate practice, and peer engagement.
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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.
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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
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“AEDP has changed the way I witness my clients’ healing journeys. Every session feels like a collaborative exploration.”
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Steering Committee Updates
New Video Release:
🎬 Issues of Agency in AEDP – Eileen M. Russell, PhD
Available through APA and the AEDP member library.
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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..
Continue reading “Julia Jalalat is now a certified AEDP Therapist!!!”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.
Continue reading “Stephen McDonnell is now a certified AEDP Supervisor”We want to alert you that some members have recently received fraudulent emails claiming to:
Please know that these messages are not from the AEDP Institute and are designed to scam or phish for personal information.
Continue reading “Member Alert: Beware of Scam Emails”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.
Continue reading “Book Release: Deliberate Practice in AEDP”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:
Dear AEDP Community,
I am delighted to welcome Martina Verba , LCSW, DSW to our AEDP Adjunct Faculty. After careful review of her qualifications, extensive teaching experience, and profound commitment to the AEDP model, we are thrilled to have her join our Institute teaching faculty.
Continue reading “Martina Verba, LCSW, DSW, joins AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty.”
Dear Community,
It is with great pleasure that I share wonderful news: Michael Mondoro LCSW will be joining the AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty. We are delighted to welcome the depth of experience, dedication, and vision that Michael brings to the AEDP community.
Michael’s journey with AEDP began in 2012 and has clearly been one of deep commitment and continuous growth. His teaching evaluation scores speak to his exceptional ability to engage and inspire learners. Michael’s specialization in complex trauma and trauma-related dissociation brings highly valuable clinical depth that will benefit participants. This also addresses a need in our course offerings that we have become increasingly aware of. Alongside his deep immersion in AEDP, Michael brings a wealth of experience from complementary clinical models, enriching his teaching with a broad and integrative perspective. His self-described “intuitive, down-to-earth style,” combined with warmth, humor, and attunement to diverse learning needs, is a gift that aligns perfectly with AEDP’s ethos of undoing aloneness in the learning environment.
Continue reading “Michael Mondoro, LCSW joins AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty.”