"I feel, therefore I am in pain." Deep emotional pain can bring unbearable loneliness. Loneliness is painful enough, especially so when felt while in the presence of other people. Unbearable suffering often comes when the very people who were supposed to love us hurt us instead. You can feel alone, longing for a relationship you do not have, and deep down you feel disconnected from yourself and others. You may feel that no one really knows you deeply and cares about you. It can be a feeling of emptiness. And regardless of its origin, special pain deserves special treatment and caring. When your pain is deep and profound, only profound caring can help. AEDP (Accelerated Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy) goes beyond traditional models of therapy to establish a heartfelt way of being that mends the broken connections to ourselves and those around us. AEDP is about emotion- how to get to it, how to flow with it, and equally important, how to use thoughts and feelings, following their lead to direct our lives away from future suffering and toward happiness. To develop that healthy connection, we need love, attention, empathy, respect, affection, understanding, and guidance. AEDP draws from the best-of-the-best psychotherapy knowledge and experience available to create a model for healing that people report intuitively feels right. By combining the richness of a person's words and feelings, contained within a compassionate, active, therapeutic relationship- to use AEDP's language, and first-hand experience, the result is "transformational".
