Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Emotional Suffering into Flourishing With AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)

Aloneness in the face of overwhelming emotion is the epicenter of traumatic suffering, it is what brings our patients to seek help. Undoing aloneness is key to being able to process the overwhelming emotions of trauma. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), one of the fastest growing approaches to healing attachment trauma, has developed creative, systematic interventions for undoing the patient’s aloneness, and working dyadically and experientially to heal emotional suffering. AEDP also uses metatherapeutic processing, a methodology for bringing in-session flourishing about in trauma patients: it involves micro-tracking and experiential work with transformational experiences and culminates in vitality, energy, experiences of feeling seen, cared for and loved, and the non-finite positive emotion-fueled spirals of resilience and well-being.

• Name three AEDP interventions for undoing aloneness.
• Describe how metatherapeutic processing contributes to in-session flourishing.

Diana Fosha, PhD