AEDP Therapy in Florida
Experiential, attachment-focused therapy for
anxiety, trauma, and relational patterns
You may be highly self-aware and yet still find yourself struggling to feel truly safe, connected, or at ease within yourself. Many people know why they feel the way they do, yet still feel stuck in the same emotional patterns, self-criticism, or relational dynamics.
AEDP therapy offers a different way of working - one that goes beyond insight alone and focuses on emotional experience, connection, and deep, lasting change.I help people slow down, reconnect with themselves more compassionately, and work through the deeper emotional wounds that keep them feeling stuck.
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) is an experiential, attachment-based approach to therapy grounded in neuroscience and an understanding of how emotions and the nervous system are shaped through our relationships.
Rather than only talking about what’s happening, AEDP pays attention to what you’re feeling as it unfolds in the room, especially the emotions that feel hard to access, overwhelming, or long held inside. We slow things down so you can begin to notice your internal experience in a more supported and connected way.
What AEDP is really built on is the understanding that healing happens in safe, emotionally attuned relationships. Our nervous systems are shaped through connection, and also begin to regulate and shift through connection.
In this way, emotions are not problems to fix, but experiences that can be understood, processed, and gradually transformed when they are met with enough safety and presence.
What is AEDP?
How AEDP Therapy Works
AEDP helps you move from simply understanding your patterns to actually experiencing change at a deeper, embodied, emotional level.
Working with emotions in real time
Instead of analyzing feelings from a distance, we’ll slow things (way) down so you can notice what’s happening internally as it unfolds with curiosity.
Gently exploring protective patterns
Many of the ways you cope – overthinking, shutting down, people-pleasing, self-criticism – once helped you get through things.
In AEDP, we get curious about these patterns rather than trying to force them away.
Processing emotional experiences safely
We move at your pace, staying attuned to your nervous system so you can remain grounded while gently exploring what’s been held, unprocessed, or avoided.
Healing through connection
The relationship between therapist and client is central. Over time and with trust, this becomes a space where new, transformative emotional experiences can actually happen – not just be talked about.
What AEDP Therapy Sessions Look Like
AEDP sessions tend to move at a slower, more experiential pace than traditional talk therapy.
We usually begin with whatever feels most present for you in the moment – that might be something that happened during the week, an emotional reaction that’s lingering, or even a sense of feeling stuck, distant from yourself, or unsure of what you’re feeling at all.
From there, we gently start to slow things down and turn attention inward. We get curious about what’s happening as you talk – emotions as they shift and emerge, body sensations, thoughts, and the relational patterns that tend to show up not just in your life, but in the room between us.
There’s no pressure to do this “right” or to have it all figured out. We’re not trying to force insight or push for change before your system is ready for it. Instead, we stay close to your experience in a way that helps things unfold more organically and with a sense of support.
Over time, something often begins to shift – not just in how you understand yourself, but in how you actually feel in yourself. Moments of stuckness can start to loosen. Defenses soften. Emotions that once felt overwhelming or out of reach can become more tolerable, more understandable, and more workable. And there’s often a growing sense that you’re not just talking about change anymore – you’re beginning to experience it in real time.
Who AEDP is for
AEDP can be a good fit if you already have a strong sense of self-awareness, but still find that only gets you so far. You might find yourself stuck in patterns that don’t really change – even when you can clearly see them.
You might notice things like:
- Feeling highly self-aware, yet still caught in emotional or relational patterns that repeat in different forms
- Knowing your attachment style, but not always knowing how to work with it in real time when you’re activated or in relationships
- Living with anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or a strong inner critic that feels hard to shift or soften
- Feeling emotionally overwhelmed at times, or on the other end, feeling shut down or disconnected from yourself
- Noticing familiar relational dynamics showing up again and again, even when you’re trying to do things differently
- Wanting to understand yourself more deeply – your patterns, your past, and how they continue to shape the way you relate now
- Being drawn to a more nervous-system-informed approach, where we pay attention not just to insight, but to how experiences are actually held and processed internally
- Having done a lot of work to understand yourself, but still sensing that certain emotional experiences don’t fully shift or settle
Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, reflective, and high-achieving. From the outside, things often look steady or put-together, but internally there’s a sense of carrying a lot alone – or noticing that certain emotional experiences don’t fully resolve, even with a lot of awareness and work behind them.
What Change With AEDP Looks Like
Over time, AEDP often supports a kind of shift that’s less about thinking differently and more about actually experiencing yourself differently in your day-to-day life.
You may start to feel more emotionally connected to yourself – not just understanding what you feel, but being able to stay with your experience without immediately pulling away from it or turning against yourself.
There can be a softening of the inner critic, with less automatic self-judgment and more room for understanding, even in moments that feel hard or activating.
You might notice more space in how you respond to stress or emotional triggers – not because things stop feeling intense, but because you’re less quickly pulled into old patterns of reacting or shutting down.
Relationships can begin to feel different too, with a growing sense of safety in closeness and more capacity to stay present with others without disconnecting from yourself.
Over time, many people describe this as feeling more grounded and internally steady – less like they’re managing their emotional life from a distance, and more like they’re actually in it, with more ease and connection.
Is AEDP evidence-based?
Yes. AEDP is a research-informed, experiential therapy model that has growing empirical support, particularly in the areas of emotion processing, attachment, and relational healing.
That said, what many people notice first isn’t the research - it’s that the experience of therapy feels different. More present, more connected and relational, and more emotionally real than what they may have done before.
How long does AEDP therapy take?
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all timeline. While some people notice early shifts they want to keep building on, AEDP is most often a longer-term, relationally focused process that unfolds over time - especially as we work with deeper attachment patterns, nervous system responses, and long-standing emotional experiences.
What matters most isn’t how quickly things change, but that the work is creating movement that feels meaningful, sustainable, and right for where you are.
How is AEDP different from other forms of therapy?
AEDP goes beyond talking about your patterns or understanding them intellectually. It is an experiential, attachment-based and trauma-informed approach to therapy where we slow things down and work with emotions, relational experiences, and protective responses as they are happening in real time in session.
AEDP is also a parts work approach, meaning we may explore younger parts of you that carry pain, fear, shame, or unresolved relational wounds, along with the protective parts that developed through anxiety, overthinking, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, or self-criticism. Rather than trying to eliminate these parts, the work focuses on helping them feel understood, supported, and less alone.
A central part of AEDP therapy is the therapeutic relationship itself. We pay attention to the relational and attachment patterns that show up in the room, including how you experience closeness, trust, vulnerability, and disconnection, and we work with these patterns together as they arise.
This process is rooted in emotionally attuned connection. Feeling deeply seen, understood, and emotionally met in a safe therapeutic relationship is one of the core mechanisms of change in attachment therapy, and it can begin to shift long-standing emotional and relational patterns at a deeper nervous system level.
Over time, this creates space for new emotional and relational experiences to develop, often leading to change that is not only understood intellectually, but felt more fully and embodied in daily life.
You deserve healing that actually feels like change.
You deserve healing that actually feels like change.