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An Introduction to Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP): Enhanced Relational Interventions for Complex Trauma and Attachment Wounding


Average Rating:
   9
Speaker:
Kari Gleiser, PhD
Duration:
Approx. 6 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 02, 2023
Product Code:
PDR001858
Media Type:
Digital Recording
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Description

The field of mental health is starting to recognize that many, if not most, psychiatric conditions are different manifestations of early childhood trauma. When a child’s undeveloped nervous system is repeatedly overwhelmed by fear or shame and no attachment figure is present to protect, comfort, regulate the child, the result is developmental trauma.  Even in adulthood, a history of complex attachment trauma can sever and/or inhibit the formation of deep and lasting bonds between self and other, self and self, self and emotion. The practice of AEDP, an empirically-supported treatment model, includes key elements to foster the healing of trauma, the integration of dissociated parts and the rekindling of deep, trusting relationships through the felt experience of undoing aloneness. Such trusting relationships can rekindle neuroplasticity to restructure insecure attachment patterns, promote safe emotional processing and transform trauma into flourishing.

In this workshop, we will explore elements such as the explicit use of relational interventions to build safety and containment, dyadic regulation of intense traumatic affects of fear, shame, and overwhelm, as well as reconnection to healing emotion via processing of core affect – all in the context of patients with severe trauma histories. We will view these cases through the lens of intra-relational interventions, which place dual emphasis on internal attachment relationships formed through affective interchanges between dissociated parts of the self, and on the intrinsic healing power of new emotional experiences. Parallel relational processes unfolding simultaneously within the external dyad (i.e. therapist/client) and internal dyads (i.e. client/dissociated ego-states) facilitate and accelerate the internalization of secure attachment dynamics. Strengthening these connections instills safety and containment which, in turn, segue ways into transformative affect work and deep processing of traumatic memories.  Key points will be illustrated with videotaped clips of actual therapy sessions. 

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Kari Gleiser, PhD, is a senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute since 2006. In her practice, she specializes in applying AEDP to the treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. For 14 years, Dr. Gleiser was the co-founder/co-director of the Center for Integrative Health in Hanover, NH, a trauma center dedicated to multi-modal healing of mind, body and spirit. Dr. Gleiser has co-developed an “intra-relational” model of therapy that imports AEDP’s relational and experiential interventions to patients’ internal systems of dissociated self-states. Dr. Gleiser has written clinical papers and book chapters and presents internationally on trauma treatment. She also explores and presents on the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality, as well as the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.  When not working, she can be found running on forest trails of New England and Tuscany.  Dr. Gleiser will move to Italy in the summer of 2024 and plans to build and nurture the European AEDP community with local trainings and workshops.


Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Kari Gleiser co-founder and co-director of the Center for Integrative Health. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Kari Gleiser has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose. 
 


Objectives

  1. Apply AEDP key elements to foster the healing of trauma, and the integration of dissociative parts. 
  2. Demonstrate competency in working with the intra-relational triangle to craft relational clinical interventions. 
  3. Identify and mitigate risks in applying AEDP to complex trauma. 
  4. Demonstrate explicit use of relational interventions with different parts of the self of the patient. 
  5. List three intra-relational interventions for building secure internal attachment. 
  6. Utilize AEDP relational interventions to develop connection that instills safety and containment and forges secure attachment with patients who have never been securely attached to anyone. 

Outline

Essential AEDP Theory 

  • Unbearable aloneness and trauma through the lens of attachment 
  • Transformance and Flourishing 
  • Receptive affective capacity 
  • Emotion and neuroplasticity 

Essential AEDP Interventions 

  • Undoing aloneness through explicit relational interventions 
  • Dyadic regulation of affect 
  • Moment to moment tracking of relational, emotional, somatic experience 
  • 4 States of Emotional processing 

Intra-relational Interventions:  Building Secure Attachment in-vivo 

  • Working relationally with multiple parts of the self 
  • Balancing relational-experiential work on the intra-relational triangle 
  • Creating reparative attachment portrayals between therapist and dissociated parts to heal neglect 
  • Identifying risks and re-enactments with working on different sides of the intra-relational triangle 

Target Audience

  • Counselors 
  • Social Workers 
  • Psychologists 
  • Psychiatrists 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Addiction Counselors 
  • Physicians 
  • Nurses (strike through) 
  • Occupational Therapists (strike through) 
  • Other mental health professionals

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