AEDP Therapy · Boca Raton & Delray Beach, FL
Wounds happen in relationships. Healing happens through them too.
AEDP therapy in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, Florida, for women working through attachment patterns, emotional experience long held at arm's length, and the relational layer that insight alone has not been able to move.
Training & supervision
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EMDR-trained
EMDRIA-approved basic training curriculum
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AEDP-trained
AEDP Institute
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IFS-informed
Internal Family Systems
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MS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Master's level clinician
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Practicing under qualified supervision
Supervised by Karin Witte, LMHC #MH13488
Currently practicing at Genesis Counseling, Boca Raton & Delray Beach.
What is AEDP therapy in Boca Raton?
AEDP therapy in Boca Raton is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy - a relational, attachment-based model that treats the therapeutic relationship itself as the change agent. Developed by Diana Fosha, AEDP is built on the idea that trauma and emotional pain often come from ruptures in important relationships; because wounds happen in relationships, healing also happens through healthy, safe relationships. Sessions focus on creating a secure space where clients feel deeply heard, supported, and emotionally safe, so emotions can be processed without feeling alone. The approach suits attachment patterns that keep repeating, emotion long held at arm's length, people-pleasing and identity loss, and depth work beyond what insight alone has been able to move. It is evidence-informed clinical work, paced around your safety, that supports change in the brain, body, and nervous system. Hannah Lee, RMHCI, offers AEDP-trained therapy for women in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL and via secure telehealth across Florida, under qualified Florida supervision.
What AEDP actually is
Healing through relationship, not only insight.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a relational therapy model developed by Diana Fosha at the AEDP Institute. It is built on the idea that trauma and emotional pain often come from ruptures in important relationships, especially with caregivers. Because wounds happen in relationships, healing also happens through healthy, safe relationships.
AEDP focuses on creating a secure space where clients feel deeply heard, supported, and emotionally safe. Through the therapist's attunement and presence, clients can process emotions without feeling alone - which is where healing, transformation, and lasting change begin to happen.
AEDP holds the relational layer where new emotional experience becomes possible. None of this is magic. It is evidence-informed clinical work, paced around your safety, that supports change in the brain, body, and nervous system at the level where the response actually lives.
What AEDP can help with
Attachment patterns that keep repeating
The anxious reaching, the avoidant pulling back, the dynamic that shows up in different relationships with the same kind of ending. AEDP works at the relational level where these patterns were learned.
Emotion held at arm's length
Years of being the strong one, the steady one, the one who handles it. AEDP creates conditions where emotion you have worked to avoid can be felt without flooding - because you are not feeling it alone.
People-pleasing and identity loss
When years of attuning to everyone else have left you genuinely uncertain what you want, AEDP's emphasis on present-moment experience is a slow way back into knowing what is actually yours.
Depth work beyond insight
If you have done therapy and understand your patterns intellectually but they still run, AEDP is designed for the layer that insight alone cannot reach.
How AEDP sessions work
The relationship is the work.
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01 · Attunement
The work begins with presence - the kind of being-with that signals to your nervous system you are not alone in this. This is not technique; it is the ground everything else stands on.
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02 · Emotional experiencing
Together we move toward feelings you have spent years working to avoid - not to dramatize them, but so they can be felt and metabolized in the company of someone who can hold them with you.
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03 · Meta-processing
After an emotional moment, we stop and notice what just happened - what shifted, what it was like to not be alone in it. This is where new experience becomes new knowing.
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04 · Integration
Over time, the relational safety that lets you feel deeply in session becomes something you carry. The patterns that were learned in relationship begin to be revised in relationship.
Common questions about AEDP
How is AEDP different from regular talk therapy?
Traditional talk therapy often centers on insight - understanding why you are the way you are. AEDP centers on experience - what it actually feels like to be accompanied through emotion that you have spent years working to avoid. Insight matters, but it is not the change agent in AEDP. The relationship is.
Will I cry every session?
No. AEDP is emotion-focused, not emotion-required. Some sessions are quiet. Some are reflective. Some do touch deep feeling. The work moves at the pace you can hold, and there is no expectation that you perform anything you do not actually feel.
How long does AEDP take?
Everyone is different. AEDP is depth work, not a short-term protocol with a set session count. Some people notice meaningful shifts in the first few months as the relational safety builds. Others use AEDP as longer-term, paced work around attachment and developmental material. We talk through expectations during the consult.
Can AEDP be done over telehealth?
Yes. AEDP is a relational, attunement-based approach, and that can translate well to video. The work depends on presence and pacing, not on physical proximity. We discuss the format during the consult based on what you are working on.
An invitation
Want to see if AEDP is the right fit?
The free 15-minute consultation is the easiest place to start. You can describe what you are working with, and I will give you an honest read on whether this approach is likely to help.
No commitment. Pick a time, I'll call you.
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