Healing Through Connection: Experiential and Attachment-Based Approaches to Transforming Trauma

An introduction to Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

Register for Healing Through Connection 

Many of us in clinical practice are seeing the growing need for trauma-informed, experiential approaches that go beyond insight and cognitive work, and more into felt, embodied change. Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is an integrative, neuroscience-informed model that harnesses emotion, attachment, and the innate capacity for healing through the therapeutic relationship.

In this 90 minute advanced webinar, participants will explore:

• How to stay present and connected when clients shut down, intellectualize, or avoid emotion — using moment-to-moment attunement to create safety and deepen transformation.
• Core AEDP interventions that help clients move from defense to experience — learning to engage emotion as a pathway to healing rather than something to manage or contain.
• Practical ways to bring experiential and attachment-based principles into your existing framework — whether in ongoing psychotherapy or shorter-term client support, to make sessions feel more alive, embodied, and effective.

While the material is designed with psychotherapists in mind, social workers and clinicians engaged in direct client care may also find the ideas applicable and enriching.

Participants will leave with both conceptual understanding and practical tools to bring more aliveness, regulation, and connection into their clinical work.

About the presenter

Amanda Neves, MSW, RSW, is Clinical Director of Amanda Neves Therapy, with locations in Toronto and Vaughan, where she leads an integrative, trauma- and attachment-informed group practice. A proud UofT alumna with over 10 years of clinical experience, Amanda combines AEDP, IFS, somatic and mindfulness-informed approaches to support clients navigating trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, relational challenges, and nervous-system dysregulation, while helping clinicians deepen relational connection, regulation, and meaningful change. In addition to her psychotherapy work, she runs monthly virtual supervision groups for psychotherapists across Canada, is an Experiential Assistant with the AEDP Institute in New York, and serves as a field instructor with the University of Toronto’s FIFSW.