Unlocking Transformation: The Healing Power of AEDP
In today's episode, Rachael speaks with Zara Neukom as they engage in a captivating conversation exploring the transformative modality of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). Zara shares her personal journey to AEDP and how it has become her clinical home, offering insights into its depathologizing framework and emphasis on the inherent healing capacities within each individual. Throughout the discussion they touch upon themes such as embracing the unfelt, navigating the intensity of healing, and reorienting towards the experience of embodiment.
Key Takeaways
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a modality that focuses on creating the conditions for healing and transformation to occur.
AEDP is a depathologizing model that recognizes the inherent healing capacity of every human being.
Being seen and validated in therapy can be a transformative experience for clients.
Reorienting to the experience of being a body and reconnecting with the places of pain and aliveness is an important part of the healing journey.
Choosing to heal and embracing the call to wholeness requires courage and a willingness to face fear and uncertainty.
Based in Kelowna British Columbia, Zara Neukom is a dedicated psychotherapist whose practice centres around relational and somatic approaches. With a focus on facilitating deeper connections to one's body, accessing innate wholeness, and privileging lived experience, Zara's work embodies a commitment to holistic relational healing.
Learn more about Zara on her Website.
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