Welcome and Thank You

Welcome and thank you for your interest.  A research project is currently underway.  If you choose to participate and are an appropriate patient for our study, you will receive a 16-session AEDP treatment at a substantially lower cost per session, in exchange for your research participation.  

​Please read on for more information and speak with the therapist who referred you to this page if you have further questions.   

About AEDP 

AEDP stands for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy.  

AEDP heals trauma and helps to undo aloneness by championing the innate healing capacity of neuroplasticity in a safe, attached therapeutic relationship.

Through moment-to-moment, in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, AEDP clinicians help clients recover their sense of core self and experience increased resilience and a renewed zest for life. 
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AEDP has roots in many disciplines including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, emotion theory and affective neuroscience, body-focused approaches as well as transformational studies.
 
www.aedpinstitute.org 

What this study is about

The main goal of this study is to understand how therapeutic change occurs in AEDP.  We would like to find out how people who come into therapy change, and what therapists do to facilitate such change. We will analyze videotaped sessions to describe effective patterns of interactions and in-session behaviors. We will also analyze the data gathered from various questionnaires to examine to what extent change occurred over the course of the therapy and how that change is maintained afterwards.

Who may participate

Those who are beginning therapy with therapists whose approach is informed by AEDP are eligible to participate. You need to be over 21 year old.  If you are under the care of psychiatrist or physician, please check if your participation may conflict with other medical treatments. 

In addition, we have certain criteria in place due to the design of the study, the therapist who referred you to this site will ask you some questions and we will use your responses to the initial set of questionnaires to determine if you are an appropriate patient for this study.  

More information

This page provides a brief summary of what it means to participate in the research.  More information is available in our consent form which you will receive from your therapist prior to your first session.  

​If you have any questions, please make sure you ask your therapist. Thank you for your interest!

An invitation to participate

The AEDP Institute is committed to deepening its understanding of how change takes place in psychotherapy by doing empirical research into AEDP therapy.  If you haven't already done so, please read "About AEDP" above if you'd like to know more about AEDP as a therapy model.  

We will be collecting data on the process and outcome of AEDP therapy. We would like to invite you to participate in this important endeavor, and we will be grateful and honored if you accept and agree to do so.  The data we obtain will be analyzed by independent researchers approved by the AEDP Institute to investigate different aspects of process and outcome of AEDP.

What does it mean to participate?

  • You will receive a 16-session treatment at a substantially lower cost per session.  The fee will be agreed upon between you and your therapist. 

  • On four occasions, you will be asked to fill out a set of questionnaires that seek to assess various aspects of your psychological experience:  (i) right before you start the therapy, (ii) at the end of 16 sessions (please plan to stay one hour after your final session to complete this), and (iii) 6 and (iv) 12 months post termination. It takes about 45 minutes to 60 minutes to fill out the set of questionnaires. Prior to the third session, you will be asked to arrive a half-hour early to complete one additional questionnaire.  In addition, after each therapy session, we will want to know about your experience of that session:  you will be asked to fill out questionnaires that ask about your impressions of the therapy session just completed and also about your current experience (please stay after session to complete these, or do them as soon as possible - in the car before driving or as soon as you are able). These post-session questionnaires are very short and usually require about 15 minutes or so to complete.

  • Taking full precautions to ensure confidentiality, each session of AEDP therapy is usually videotaped.  This study is no exception. The audio/visual recordings of the therapy, with protections of confidentiality in effect, will be transmitted to the research team after each session.  
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  • After the therapy ends, i.e. at the end of the 16 sessions, we will want to interview you about your experience in therapy. The interview will be about 60 minutes and will be conducted by one of the researchers either on the phone, or via a web-based video call.