Featuring Eileen M. Russell, PhD

Sunday, January 24, 2027

Conference: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET
Online via Zoom

3 CEs will be offered

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This will be an online event via Zoom. We hope you can join us!

This experiential workshop introduces psychotherapists to several core concepts of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) through the lens of agency, trauma, and attachment. Agency will be defined as the felt sense of being able to act on one’s own behalf in the world and in important relationships—a capacity that is often profoundly diminished in patients with histories of trauma, neglect, chronic misattunement, or disempowerment. Drawing on AEDP’s trauma-informed and attachment-based orientation, the workshop will explore how the therapeutic relationship can become a transformative context in which patients begin not only to feel safer, but also more alive, more present, and increasingly able to recognize and express desire, initiative, will, and selfhood. The presentation will include didactic teaching, clinical discussion, and a live supervision demonstrating how AEDP interventions can help foster resilience, agency, and authentic relational engagement.

 Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the role of agency, will, and desire within the framework of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), including their relationship to maladaptive and adaptive core affective experiences.
  2. Differentiate developmental deficits in the formation of the self from defensive processes associated with repression, and explain how disruptions in attachment, recognition, and individuation may contribute to diminished agency and disempowerment in psychotherapy patients.
  3. Apply AEDP-informed interventions that foster the emergence of agency, will and desire to a clinical case presentation and supervision.

References:

Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., & Thoma, N. (2022). A phenomenological case study of accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy: The experience of change in the initial session from a client perspective. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 32(4), 363–376. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000261

Notsu, H., Iwakabe, S., & Thoma, N. C. (2022). Enhancing working alliance through positive emotional experience: A cross-lag analysis. Psychotherapy Research, 33(3), 328–341. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2124893

Ronen-Setter, I. H. (2026). Arcs of transformation: Taxonomy of affective change using accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy. Practice Innovations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pri0000278

Russell, E.M. (2015). Restoring resilience: Discovering your clients’ capacity for healing. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Russell, E.M. (2021). Agency, will and desire as core affective experiences: Undoing disempowerment to foster the emergence of the agentic self. In D. Fosha (Ed.). Undoing aloneness & the transformation of suffering into flourishing. (pp. 241-265). APA Press.

This conference is appropriate for clinicians at all levels of experience and offers 3 CEs.

CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance for the entire duration of the event and a completed evaluation form. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in.

PLEASE NOTE: Recording in any form of this live streaming event is NOT permitted.

About our presenter:

Eileen M. Russell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a founding faculty member of the AEDP Institute and has taught AEDP to individuals and groups nationally and internationally for many years. She is also on the faculty of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies (NIP) Integrative Trauma Treatment Program. She is the author of a book on resilience and AEDP called Restoring Resilience: Discovering your Clients’ Capacity for Healing, published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2015. In 2025 she founded Resilience Restored Psychotherapy, a small group psychotherapy practice in Montclair, NJ. In addition to psychology, she has studied different contemplative traditions and practices meditation/prayer in her own life. Eileen is licensed and practices in New York and New Jersey.

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Registration closes at noon ET on Friday, January 22nd.

Conference Fees:

$90ICP+P Members
$50ICP+P MITs, Emerging Professionals, Graduate Student Members, Fellows, 1st and 2nd Year Members
$50Unaffiliated Students
$120Non-members
$75International Attendees (Outside US)

For more information, email administrator@icpeast.org. A refund for cancellation is available up to 10 days before the conference.

Continuing education credit:  3 CE credits available for full attendance. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in. Full Zoom attendance is required in order to receive CE Credit.

The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ICP+P maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ICP+P is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education credit. As our CE program receives oversight from a licensed social worker, the CE credits we award are highly likely to be recognized by licensing boards in Virginia and the District of Columbia. These continuing education credits meet the ANCC standards for nurses. Marriage and family therapists licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia may submit these CE credits to their licensing boards. (Marriage and family therapists in other jurisdictions and licensed counselors should inquire with their local Boards regarding continuing education credit.) Attendees from the above professional groups will earn 3 CE credits for attending the CE activity. Full attendance is required to receive the designated CE credit.

Eileen M. Russell, PhD, and the planners have informed us that they do not have a conflict of interest and have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests pertaining to this educational activity. Additionally, the presenters have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during this presentation. This presentation will not contain any references to off­label (non­FDA approved) use of products or devices.