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Digital Seminar

Going Deeper with Clients


Speakers:
Diana Fosha, PhD |  Zach Taylor, MA, LPC
Duration:
1 Hour 49 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 22, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096488
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

In AEDP, a healing-oriented therapy that holds undoing aloneness as a sine qua non of trauma work, affirmation is not a mere nicety but a robust experiential clinical intervention, activating the brain’s intrinsic capacity for healing and self-repair. Through affirmation and AEDP's dyadic experiential work, people experience profound shifts in self-concept, attachment security, and overall quality of life. In this workshop, we’ll examine pioneering developmental work on recognition, emphasising its role in fostering secure attachment bonds and healthy emotional development. You’ll discover: 

  • New, neurobiologically informed ways to help traumatised clients feel deeply seen, understood, and valued from the first session 
  • The key elements of attunement and moment-to-moment tracking to harness affirmation 
  • How to use relationally attuned affirmation to work with defensive walls traumatised clients have built 

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Earn up to 1.75 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This self-study course offers 1.5 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



Speaker

Diana Fosha, PhD's Profile

Diana Fosha, PhD Related seminars and products


Diana Fosha, PhD, is the developer of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapeutic treatment and she is founder and director of the AEDP Institute. For the last 20 years, Diana has been active in promoting a scientific basis for a healing-oriented, attachment-emotion-transformation focused trauma treatment model. Fosha’s work focuses on integrating positive neuroplasticity, recognition science and developmental dyadic research into experiential and transformational clinical work with patients. Her most recent work focuses on promoting flourishing as a seamless part of AEDP’s therapeutic process of transforming emotional suffering. Drawing on affective neuroscience, attachment theory, mother-infant developmental research, and research documenting the undreamed-of plasticity in the adult brain, AEDP has developed an experiential clinical practice, which reflects the integration of science, research and practice in psychotherapy.

Based in New York City, where she lives and practices, Fosha has been on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology of NYU and St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers (now Mount Sinai) in NYC, and of the doctoral programs in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and at The City University of New York.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Diana Fosha is the Director and Founder of the AEDP Institute and maintains a private practice. She receives royalties as a published author. Diana Fosha receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Diana Fosha is on the advisory board of GAINS and the Society for Constructivism in the Human Science. She is on the Planning Committee and Advisory Board of by the Lifespan Learning Institute and is a member of the American Psychological Association.


Zach Taylor, MA, LPC Related seminars and products


Zach Taylor, MA, LPC, is the director of Psychotherapy Networker.


Additional Info

Program Information

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Objectives

  1. Evaluate techniques for harnessing recognition and affirmation in therapeutic settings, focusing on attunement and moment-to-moment tracking. 
  2. Demonstrate practical strategies for working with the defensive walls built by traumatised patients. 
  3. Discuss metatherapeutic processing as a means of solidifying, deepening and expanding the therapeutic effects of affirmation 

Outline

Recognition and Affirmation as Processes in Development & AEDP            

  • Theoretical foundations in AEDP 
  • Recognition in a developmental context  
  • The Neurobiological Core SELF  
  • Transformation: Vitality, energy and aliveness 
  • Affirmation of self and relationality in AEDP 

Putting Theory into Clinical Practice: The Use of Affirmation & Recognition as Clinical Interventions     

  • Techniques for using affirmation and recognition      
  • The importance of the therapist's use of self  
  • Metatherapeutic processing  
  • Examples and clinical case studies 

Defences: AEDP Practical Strategies for Working with Defences vs. Recognition & Affirmation                                             

  • Melting and bypassing defences 
  • Validating defences, befriending defences 
  • Cost benefit analysis:  
  • Using judicious self-disclosure to reduce anxiety and restructure defences 
  • Examples and clinical case studies 

Somatic/Affective Markers: Moment-to-moment tracking of the phenomenology of affirmation & recognition 

  • Somatic/Affective Markers of Recognition & Affirmation:  
  • Receptive affective experiences  
  • Examples and clinical case studies 

Risks and Limitations of the Research 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists
  • Nurses
  • Addiction Counsellors

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