UPCOMING WORKSHOP:
From Parts to We-ness: Voice, Power, and the Younger Self in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
October 24th, 2026. Time: 9am -3pm Cost: $200
To register, please email: mariaangelinacounselling@gmail.com
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is an attachment-based, experiential, and emotion-focused model that understands healing as emerging through the experience of a deeply attuned therapeutic relationship. Drawing on attachment theory, neuroscience, and transformational research, AEDP equips clinicians to accompany clients through experiences of change, uncertainty, trauma, and emotional suffering within a secure relational context. At a time when counselling psychologists are increasingly working with clients navigating intersecting personal, social, and systemic challenges, AEDP offers a framework for cultivating relational depth, emotional resilience, and transformative change through authentic therapeutic connection. Central to this work is the recognition that therapeutic relationships are shaped by culture, identity, power, and lived experience, requiring ongoing therapist reflexivity and responsiveness.
This workshop will centre on a video-recorded AEDP clinical session, offering participants an opportunity to observe relational depth as it unfolds in real time. Through guided viewing of the session, discussion and group work, core AEDP transformational interventions will be demonstrated and explored, including working with a client's young self, cultivating we-ness, the undoing of aloneness, and deepening the somatic exploration of affective experience. Using the video as a foundation for discussion, participants will explore AEDP's four-state transformational process, attend to moment-to-moment tracking, and identify clinical choice points that strengthen client agency while supporting movement through change, uncertainty, and emotional complexity.
As we view the clinical work together, we will also explore the lived relational field between therapist and client, attending to how racialized, cultural, gendered, and other socio-cultural identities shape experiences of safety, voice, power, and agency within the therapeutic dyad. We will consider how these dynamics are recognized, responded to, and metaprocessed within an AEDP framework to deepen therapeutic connection and support transformational change.
Participants will leave with greater familiarity and understanding of AEDP skills, deepen their capacity to work experientially with clients’ affective experiences through AEDP interventions, strengthening relational depth across diverse identities and lived experiences in contemporary clinical practice.
For more info about the workshop OR to register, please email: mariaangelinacounselling@gmail.com.
**Registration is limited to a small cohort to encourage meaningful interaction, discussion, and learning.
Meet the Facilitator:
Dr. Maria Angelina
is a certified AEDP Therapist and AEDP Supervisor with over 15 years clinical counselling experience. She works both in post-secondary and in private practice in Vancouver, B.C.
Her foray into the AEDP world started with her doctoral research which aimed to better understand the attachment processes within psychotherapy.
Like many, she immediately found and continues to ‘find home’ in AEDP as her therapeutic orientation. In her words, “Within this modality, I have felt a deepening, a grounding into self and other, a releasing into process and into relationships, a synchrony, all of which continue to feel infinitely meaningful and creative. I can say with certainty and with gratitude, I am in every way a better person, partner, parent, and psychotherapist because of AEDP.”
She has assisted at multiple AEDP courses and trainings and facilitated local workshops on various aspects of AEDP. Additionally, she has presented her AEDP clinical work and research at several psychotherapy conferences.
She looks forward to connecting with participants in our growing & thriving Vancouver community
GROUP WORK
Two New Opportunities!
Emotion Education 101™
An 8 week live online course
Next course begins Monday, January 15, 2024, 7:00 - 8:30pm PST
Want to learn how to navigate your emotions to have a deeper connection with yourself and others? Join us!
This course is a profound and supportive learning process to understand your emotions and defences, in order to allow you to move toward your authentic and open-hearted self. You will gain knowledge, skills and practices to reside in your open-hearted self, more easily and more of the time.
Based on the award-winning book, It’s Not Always Depression, by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW.
Together we will explore how to:
Form a positive relationship to strong emotions.
Understand your brain in order to regulate the roots of anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges.
Support others in your life, including partners, friends and children, to process their emotions.
Use a simple and effective tool - The Change Triangle - to navigate emotions and emerge with greater connection to oneself and others.
EMOTION COACHING FOR MEN
Begins Tuesday, JANUARY 16, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST
Learn how to navigate your emotions to have a deeper connection with yourself and others. You can learn the skills to be more open and present to your feelings.
To LEARN MORE & REGISTER click here
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: LAURA MONTGOMERY, MSW, RSW
Laura is a Counsellor in private practice in North Vancouver and in process of becoming certified as an AEDP therapist. She graduated with her Masters in Social Work from the University of British Columbia and went on to study somatic and attachment-based approaches to resolve trauma. Laura is excited to facilitate this course due to her steadfast belief in the power of our core emotions to connect us to our genuine self.
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS:
Richard Harrison, PhD
AEDP Institute Adjunct Faculty
AEDP Certified Supervisor
Certified EFT Supervisor
The Healing Power of AEDP: Viewed Through the Lens of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Early Bird Rate available until May 8th at midnight (Eastern time)
This workshop is specifically crafted for EFT-trained therapists interested in AEDP, and features extensive video examples from therapy sessions. I will explain and demonstrate AEDP theory and interventions, using language familiar to EFT therapists. We will explore commonalities and differences between the two models. Unique aspects of AEDP will be highlighted, and participants will learn how these can applied to deepen and expand EFT practice with both individuals and couples.
Together, we will witness the power of AEDP in action, while tracking and discussing the change processes at play. We will explore the potential for synergy between AEDP and EFT. Participating therapists will discover new ways to accelerate change, heal attachment wounds, and nurture a felt sense of security that clients take with them into their lives!
For more information or to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-healing-power-of-aedp-viewed-through-the-lens-of-eft-registration-274523837187