Online AEDP and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Virtual Counselling for Emotional Healing, Anxiety, and Disconnection
You may be able to name what’s happening. You’ve done the reading, taken the courses, maybe even tried therapy before. But something still feels off. You can’t always feel what you think you should, and when you do, it’s hard to stay with it. Emotional waves come in too fast — or not at all.
AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) are experiential approaches that help you reconnect with what’s underneath. Not just to cope more effectively, but to feel more clearly, respond more freely, and relate more fully. This is therapy for when you want to stop looping through insight and begin to feel like something is actually shifting.
What Are AEDP and Emotion-Focused Therapy?
Both AEDP and EFT are relational, emotion-centred approaches. They work best not through advice or analysis, but through co-regulation, presence, and staying with emotional experience long enough for something new to emerge.
What Is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)?
AEDP helps you stay with previously overwhelming emotions in a safe, supported way. It focuses on what is happening in the present — not just what happened in the past. Many clients discover that reactions they thought were “just how they are” are actually protective responses that can begin to shift once they’re acknowledged and no longer needed.
What Is Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)?
Emotion-Focused Therapy helps you make sense of your emotions as signals. Instead of treating anger, shame, or fear as problems to fix, EFT helps you explore what they’re trying to express. You’ll learn to track, validate, and transform emotional responses in the moment — often leading to more clarity and choice in your relationships.
What AEDP and EFT Can Help With
These approaches are especially effective for people navigating:
Emotional confusion or disconnection — when you feel too much or nothing at all
Anxiety that doesn’t fully respond to logic or coping tools
Inner conflict, perfectionism, or parts of you that feel stuck in opposition
Shame, overfunctioning, or sensitivity that makes it hard to trust yourself
A sense that you’re performing emotions instead of feeling them
Longing for deeper emotional presence in your life and relationships
This is work for people who are insightful but tired of circling the same emotional patterns without relief.
How Online Sessions Work
Sessions are delivered through a secure video platform and are adapted to support presence, regulation, and depth — even when you’re not in the same room as your therapist.
What this might look like:
You speak from your head, then pause as something catches in your chest
Your therapist notices and gently slows things down so you can follow the feeling
A part of you starts to speak — not out loud, but through body cues or tone
Instead of pushing past it, you stay. Together. Until the moment shifts
Some clients sit on the floor, use movement to stay regulated, or keep a journal nearby. There’s no one right way to do this. The structure comes from attunement, not protocol.
Why This Therapy Is Different
These are not quick-fix or top-down approaches. They are built for complexity. For nuance. For people who need more than surface-level support.
What makes AEDP and EFT different:
Sessions track what’s happening in real time — not just what happened years ago
Emotional experiences are welcomed and stayed with — not managed or bypassed
The therapist doesn’t just guide. They accompany. That difference matters
The work helps you rebuild internal trust — not just solve external problems
If you’re used to being the one who keeps it together, this might be the first space where you don’t have to.
Who This Approach Is For
You may benefit from online AEDP and EFT if:
You’re often overwhelmed or emotionally shut down, and can’t always tell why
You find yourself performing calm while feeling chaos underneath
You’ve learned how to analyze your patterns but still feel stuck inside them
You want therapy that doesn’t just talk about emotion — it helps you feel it
You’re ready for a different kind of support — one that can stay with you in the mess
This therapy is especially helpful for people who are thoughtful, sensitive, and deeply self-aware, but who still feel like something essential isn’t reaching the surface.
Available Anywhere in British Columbia
We work with clients across BC, including:
Cities like Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Nanaimo, and Surrey
Smaller communities like Smithers, Castlegar, Courtenay, Port Hardy, and Fort St. John
If you have a private space and stable internet, you can access this work from anywhere in the province.
Prefer in-person therapy?
You don’t need a breakthrough to begin.
Real change starts by staying present, gently and consistently, with what you’ve spent years moving around. AEDP and EFT make space for something different — not by pushing harder, but by offering a kind of support that doesn’t flinch or fix. This is where something new begins.
Next Steps
Fill out a New Client Form to be matched with a counsellor trained in AEDP or EFT.
Or, if you’re ready, book a free consult or appointment using our secure online platform.
Not sure how to begin?
Try our Client Guide to Consult Calls.