AEDP Therapy in Edmonton

Transforming emotional pain into healing, connection, and inner strength

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a gentle yet powerful approach that helps you fully process emotions—especially the ones you learned to suppress, minimize, or carry alone. Many of us were taught to “hold it together,” stay strong, or bury difficult feelings. Over time, those unprocessed emotions don’t disappear; they take root, shaping anxiety, depression, disconnection, or patterns of self-doubt.

AEDP recognizes that emotions are not problems—they are pathways. When experienced safely, with support and attunement, they become catalysts for profound healing, resilience, and transformation.

Grounded in attachment science, affective neuroscience, and the innate human drive toward healing, AEDP creates the conditions for emotional breakthroughs that feel relieving, clarifying, and deeply strengthening.

What Makes AEDP Unique?

AEDP blends experiential, relational, and neuroscience-based principles to help you move from emotional suffering into emotional flourishing. It focuses on:

• Undoing aloneness through an attuned, warm, actively supportive therapeutic relationship

• Experiencing emotions in real time, rather than talking about them from a distance

• Transforming old emotional patterns through memory reconsolidation

• Strengthening positive affects like relief, pride, tenderness, and joy after emotional processing

AEDP creates safety, not by avoiding emotions, but by meeting them together—with compassion, presence, and care.

How AEDP Works

1. A Safe, Relational Foundation

You don’t have to navigate difficult emotions alone. AEDP emphasizes closeness, attunement, and deep presence—helping your nervous system feel supported and regulated enough to access what’s been held inside.

2. Emotions Explored in the Moment

AEDP goes beyond cognitive insight. We slow down, track your internal experience, and gently follow the emotional threads that arise—whether sadness, fear, shame, anger, or longing.

This isn’t forced exposure. It’s attuned exploration at the pace your system can handle.

3. Transforming Old Emotional Learning

When you revisit a painful memory while simultaneously experiencing safety, empathy, and presence, the brain can rewrite old emotional wiring. This is memory reconsolidation: old triggers lose their grip, and new emotional patterns take root.

4. Mobilizing Resilience and Positive Emotion

Once core emotions are processed, positive feelings often emerge organically—lightness, clarity, pride, relief, self-compassion. AEDP intentionally nurtures these states, helping them settle into your nervous system.

What an AEDP Session Might Feel Like

• We begin by grounding and sensing into what feels present today.

• As emotions arise, we slow down and explore them together, moment by moment.

• You may notice shifts in breath, voice, posture, or sensation—all of which guide the work.

• When painful emotions surface, you are not left alone with them; we meet them together.

• As release happens, positive emotions often follow—warmth, tenderness, hope, strength.

• We integrate these shifts so they become part of your internal landscape going forward.

Clients often describe feeling “lighter,” “more open,” or “like something finally clicked.”

AEDP & Trauma Healing

AEDP is particularly powerful for trauma because it:

• provides a safe relational environment for revisiting past wounds

• uses experiential work to gently access protected emotions

• updates old emotional memories through memory reconsolidation

• decreases shame, fear, and body-based shutdown responses

• helps repair attachment wounds by offering a felt sense of connection

• integrates somatic awareness for regulation and grounding

Trauma that once felt unbearable begins to feel manageable—and then transformable.

AEDP Helps With:

• anxiety, fear, and chronic worry

• depression or emotional numbness

• relationship and attachment wounds

• shame and self-criticism

• trauma and PTSD

• difficulty accessing or expressing emotions

• long-standing patterns that talk therapy hasn’t shifted

Why I Practice AEDP

AEDP aligns deeply with how I see healing: relational, experiential, body-based, and transformative. I believe people heal most powerfully when they feel safe, supported, and emotionally attuned to—not analyzed from afar.

My AEDP work integrates:

• somatic therapy

• polyvagal and nervous-system attunement

• attachment science

• expressive and depth-oriented approaches

• parts work and compassion-forward exploration

Our goal is not just symptom relief—it’s emotional flourishing, deeper self-understanding, and a renewed sense of aliveness.

Is AEDP Right for You?

AEDP may resonate if you:

• feel overwhelmed by feelings or disconnected from them

• have tried talk therapy but want deeper emotional change

• carry old wounds, shame, or unmetabolized grief

• long for emotional closeness or connection

• want a therapy that moves beyond coping into transformation

Transforming Pain Into Possibility

AEDP helps you reconnect with the parts of yourself that were shut down, silenced, or carried alone. Through attuned emotional processing, you discover that what once felt unbearable can lead to new strength, clarity, and resilience.

If you’re ready to explore AEDP therapy in Edmonton, you’re welcome to reach out. You don’t have to navigate these emotions on your own—we can walk this path together.