Healing Attachment Trauma: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
An AEDP San Diego Workshop
with Ron J. Frederick, PhD
The ability to identity, experience, regulate, and respond to one’s emotions, capacities born out of our early attachment experiences, is essential to mental health and well-being. Yet problems managing emotion abound and play a central role in most of our client’s presenting problems.How can we best help so many of our clients who, regardless of diagnosis, have difficulty being present with and making good use of their emotional experience, and emotionally connecting with others?
Unique in its intimate, moment-to-moment way of working at the edge of relational experience, Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an emotion-focused, attachment-based, neurobiology informed model of therapy, is ideally suited to transforming attachment-based trauma. This introductory workshop will focus on both the theory and technique of AEDP making extensive use of videotaped material to illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed. The speaker will illustrate how one’s emotional development can go awry, but how, when safety and security are catalyzed in the therapy relationship, innate emotions can be experienced as positive and free from fear, suffering can be transformed, resilience restored, and a broader range of personal and relational possibilities can be realized.
You’ll Learn To:
- Formulate optimal, experiential use of the present-moment, relational experience to promote growth, resolve attachment trauma, and affect long-lasting change.
- Specify ways to bypass defenses and facilitate the dyadic regulation of previously feared to be unbearable emotional experience.
- Describe powerful techniques to rewire the brain and restore resilience that can be incorporated into any clinical practice.
- Discuss ways to increase your own comfort with emotions and relational intimacy as well as your confidence and skill at helping clients navigate their own experiences.
Meet the Presenter
Ronald J. Frederick, PhD
Ronald J. Frederick, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Los Angeles, California and author of the book Living Like You Mean It (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Since 1994, Dr. Frederick has been training in and practicing AEDP, and has received extensive training and supervision from Dr. Fosha. Past experience includes a Clinical Supervisor role at Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s Park House Day Treatment Program. He also completed a year-long training rotation in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City. Dr. Frederick is currently the lead supervisor/teacher for an AEDP Core Training Group in San Francisco, supervises trainees in AEDP, and has co-facilitated, with Dr. Fosha, AEDP Immersion Courses in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dr. Frederick travels throughout North America as a speaker and trainer. He has written articles for several publications and has been an invited contributor to three books by The Haworth Press, Inc. His work has been featured in The Star Tribune, Lavender Magazine, the APA Monitor on Psychology, and Clinical Psychiatry News: The Leading Independent Newspaper for the Psychiatrist.” Dr. Frederick now teaches and has a private practice in Los Angeles, California.
Fee and Credits
- Early Bird (Before January 22, 2016) – $165
- Registration (After January 22, 2016) – $185
- Student & Interns – $145
- 6 CEU’s available – follow the link after hitting the “Register” button below for CEU registration.
Questions about this Workshop?
Event Details:
Date/Time
02/06/2016All Day
Location
Novata Behavioral Health10065 Old Grove Road Suite 200
San Diego, California
92131