Online AEDP and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

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Start Feeling Again, Not Just Coping

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, relational approaches that help you reconnect with what’s underneath. Not just to cope, but to shift. This is therapy for when insight alone isn’t enough, and you’re ready for something to actually change.

These approaches are especially well-suited for thoughtful, emotionally intelligent people who have already done significant inner work, but still find themselves stuck in persistent patterns of disconnection, avoidance, or internal conflict.

What Are AEDP and Emotion-Focused Therapy?

Both AEDP and EFT center on core emotional healing. Instead of analyzing or managing emotions, these therapies create the conditions to stay with and move through them, safely, fully, and with support.

What Is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)?

AEDP supports you in staying with previously overwhelming emotions in a safe, present-centered way. It focuses on the here and now, helping the nervous system move from protection to connection, from shutdown to aliveness.

This approach emphasizes undoing aloneness. In the presence of a supportive therapist, emotional experiences that once felt too much become tolerable, even transformational. AEDP works gently but directly, inviting your body and mind into a state of greater integration and trust.

Comfort items used to create a grounding space for virtual therapy at home

What Is Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)?

EFT helps you understand emotions as adaptive signals. Instead of suppressing or overriding them, EFT teaches you how to stay with what’s arising and uncover what your emotions are trying to express. The goal isn’t to manage your feelings, it’s to follow them somewhere new.

EFT is grounded in the belief that we make contact with our truest selves when we listen to what we feel. Your therapist supports you in exploring your emotional responses, not judging them, which often leads to greater clarity, choice, and compassion in how you relate to yourself and others.

What AEDP and EFT Can Help With

These therapies are particularly helpful for:

  • Emotional numbness or emotional overwhelm

  • Anxiety that doesn’t respond to logic or coping tools

  • Perfectionism, shame, and inner criticism

  • Inner conflict or feeling “at odds” with parts of yourself

  • Disconnection in relationships

  • Performing emotions instead of feeling them

  • Longing for deeper presence in your body and life

You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from this work. Many clients who seek out AEDP or EFT do so because they’re deeply aware and deeply tired. Tired of coping, of analyzing, of doing all the right things and still not feeling like themselves.

This work is ideal for people who are thoughtful and self-aware, but still feel like something essential isn’t reaching the surface.

How Online AEDP and EFT Sessions Work

Sessions are held on a secure video platform and tailored to your pace. What matters most is presence, not performance.

Here’s what a session might include:

  • Tracking what arises in your body while speaking

  • Noticing a shift in tone or posture, and slowing down

  • Attuning to a part of you that shows up, even subtly

  • Staying with an emotion long enough for it to transform

Some clients sit on the floor, hold grounding objects, or journal between sessions. Others use movement or breath to stay connected. Your therapist works with you to find what supports regulation and presence. You don’t need to be “good at feeling” to begin. There’s no one right way, only your way.

Why These Therapies Are Different

AEDP and EFT are built for nuance. For people who need more than behavioural tools or generic advice.

What sets this work apart:

  • Emotions aren’t bypassed, they’re welcomed and worked with

  • Sessions follow your experience in real time

  • The therapist doesn’t just guide, they accompany

  • Insight is important, but so is emotional integration

  • It’s not about solving you, it’s about supporting you

This is slow, deep, reparative work. Especially for people who’ve had to hold it together for a long time. Therapy here isn’t about pushing for breakthroughs, it’s about creating the conditions for real, sustainable shifts.

If you’re used to keeping it together, this might be the first space where you don’t have to.

Who This Approach Is For

Online AEDP and EFT may be right for you if:

  • You feel emotionally shut down or flooded and don’t know why

  • You’ve done a lot of work but still feel stuck inside

  • You’re insightful but tired of looping through the same patterns

  • You want to feel your emotions without being overtaken by them

  • You’re looking for support that meets you in complexity, not fixes you

This is work for people who are sensitive, intelligent, and often high-functioning, but who carry deep emotional blocks or longing beneath the surface. It’s especially supportive for folks who feel like they’re performing calm on the outside while struggling internally, and who are ready for a therapeutic relationship that invites honesty, depth, and change.

Online Sessions Available Anywhere in British Columbia

We offer online therapy across the province, including:

  • Urban areas such as Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Surrey, and Nanaimo

  • Rural and remote communities like Terrace, Fort St. John, Nelson, Castlegar, and Smithers

All you need is a private space, a secure internet connection, and a willingness to begin. We’ll meet you there.

Prefer in-person therapy?
Explore AEDP and Emotion-Focused Therapy in Surrey.

Next Steps

Fill out a New Client Form and we’ll match you with one or more therapists trained in AEDP and EFT.

Book a free consult or appointment using our secure online platform, whenever you’re ready.

Not sure how to choose a therapist?
Client Guide to Consult Calls.