At the Core
2026-2027
A Complex-Trauma and AEDP learning community for early career clinicians
Come join us
The early years of clinical work can feel isolating and overwhelming often including many hours of client contact with little guidance or community. At the Core is designed to change that.
Deep Experiential Learning
Over 25 weeks and six immersive modules, we’ll explore complex trauma and AEDP through theory, video sessions, case work, and experiential practice, crafting a foundation that lets you show up fully and with heart.
This is a place to grow your own therapist voice authentic and unique, and deeply rooted in theory and sound practice.
Come Find your People
Bubble baths and work-life balance notwithstanding, the best protection against burnout is being part of a trusted, caring, professional community. This group offers weekly connection and support during the demanding and often lonely early years of clinical work and aims to undo your clinical aloneness. Come join our second ever cohort!
Modules
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We’ll dive into what it means to orient towards healing from the get-go and how to ignite the internal script to heal from trauma. We’ll learn to track transformance glimmers and practice showing up present and available. We’ll privilege the positive and make space for the new and different experience. We’ll unpack what undoing aloneness means and feels like.
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We’ll explore the language of our attachment system and practice “talking” to it. We’ll conceptualize the Triangle of Experience (states 1&2 in AEDP) and immerse ourselves in the theory and practice of moment-to-moment tracking using the SANER Protocol. We’ll focus on how to invite clients to stay in their affective experiences while feeling safe and connected.
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Sometimes loving and appreciating the defense is not enough for the defense to make space. We’ll explore being brave, present and persistent in the face of strong defenses. We’ll learn techniques for working with defenses that don’t easily make space: pressuring with empathy, challenging defenses, negotiating with defenses, restructuring defenses, parts work and relational interventions.
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We’ll learn to identify, respond to, and transform maladaptive affects such as toxic shame, hopelessness, and helplessness into adaptive, core emotional experiences. Together, we’ll explore what it’s like to join clients in the pit of the trauma and examine the contagious nature of these states and how to stay grounded in hope. We’ll deepen our work with both our clients’ and our own receptive affective capacities.
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We’ll understand how exposure principles can be used from a connected dyadic placeto heal from trauma, and how to approach traumatic memories relationally. We’ll discuss the relationship between PTSD, C-PTSD and relational trauma. We’ll discuss the role of self-compassion and acceptance in healing from trauma. We’ll explore the significance of mourning the self, and discuss what integration looks like.
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We’ll explore the human capacity to heal and grow and how to create the conditions to promote these innate processes. We’ll discuss metaprocessing and revel in what transformance looks and feels like. We’ll learn to identify and make space for these phenomena as they emerge. We’ll learn the markers of AEDP’s states 3 & 4 and practice staying with them.
Program Structure
Dates: October 1, 2026 – April 15, 2027 (excluding holidays, see detailed schedule below)
Thursdays 10:30–12:00 EST.
Format: Weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions
Modules: 6 themed learning modules. See schedule below for specific topics and dates.
Extras: Guest speakers, optional reading list, and one individual supervision session offered at the price of your tier. Access to a dedicated drive with articles, diagrams, slides and scales for reference.
Group opening is contingent on sufficient enrollment.
Specific sessions subject to change, depending on participants’ learning needs, the group process and guest speakers schedules.
Who It’s For
This group is designed for clinicians in their first 0–5 years post-licensure, with no prerequisites. If you have passed 5 years of experience post license, and feel drawn towards a weekly connection and learning point, you are welcome to apply as well. Our first cohort had a nice mix of therapists from different geographical areas and varying levels of experience - and it worked!
If you’re ready to deepen your skills and grow in community, this group is for you. If you’re not sure - get in touch, let’s discuss!
Certificate
A certificate of completion of intense trauma training from the Moses Collaborative will be provided at the end of the program.
Fee Structure (Sliding by Post-Licensure Year)
The price bracket is based on the date you received your license. Each bracket covers 25 sessions total.
| Licensure Level | Standard | Monthly | Discounted (Paid in Full) |
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| Year 0–1 (Licensed within past year) $75/session |
$1,875 | $312.50 | $1,781.25 |
| Year 2–3 (Licensed 1–3 years) $85/session |
$2,125 | $354.17 | $2,018.75 |
| Fully Licensed (3+ years) $95/session |
$2,375 | $395.83 | $2,256.25 |
Payment Options
Monthly Billing – Fees are split into 6 equal monthly payments based on your fee bracket (see above). Payment is due at the start of each month.
Upfront Payment with Discount – A 5% discount is available to participants who pay for the full program before the group begins.
Attendance Commitment
This group is a closed cohort, designed to foster depth, trust, and continuity. When you join, you're not just signing up for a series of sessions — you're committing to a shared learning process with a consistent group of peers. Fees are collected with the understanding that your spot is reserved for you for the full 25-session cycle, and missed sessions are not refundable. While of course life happens and occasional absences are understandable, your presence matters. The learning builds week to week, and the group becomes something we co-create together. When you join you consent to the recording of some of the sessions (excluding any client content). These recordings will be offered to members who have to miss a meeting.
About the Trainer
As a longtime educator at NYU’s MSW program, certified AEDP therapist and supervisor, former clinical supervisor at the Crime Victims Treatment Center, faculty at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and a member of AEDP Institute’s Education Committee, I’m an experienced trainer who is passionate about creating learning spaces that are intellectually alive and emotionally meaningful. I have trained and supervised staff members in many organizations including Mt. Sinai Hospital, The Wise Center, KIP therapy, MyTherapyNYC, Footsteps and many others.
At the Core Training Schedule
October 2026 – April 2027
| # | Date | Topic |
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| 1 | Thu, Oct 1, 2026 | Orientation & Getting to Know Each Other |
| 2 | Thu, Oct 8, 2026 | Module 1 · Theory “Healing from the Get Go” Igniting the internal script to heal from trauma, the new and different experience, dyadic regulation, transformance glimmers, showing up present and brave for our clients from the first interaction. |
| 3 | Thu, Oct 15, 2026 | Module 1 · Tape First Sessions in AEDP |
| 4 | Thu, Oct 22, 2026 | Module 1 · Case Presentation Case Presentation by Group Member |
| 5 | Thu, Oct 29, 2026 | Module 1 · Experiential Affirming Interventions and Dyadic Affect Tracking |
| 6 | Thu, Nov 5, 2026 | Module 2 · Theory “Stay With It” – Speaking “Attachment Language” Operationalizing Attachment, Triangle of Experience, SANER model, inviting client to stay in the pain together. |
| 7 | Thu, Nov 12, 2026 | Module 2 · Tape Deepening Emotional Experiences in Less Defended Clients |
| 8 | Thu, Nov 19, 2026 | Module 2 · Case Presentation Case Presentation by Group Member |
| 9 | Thu, Dec 3, 2026 | Module 2 · Experiential Tracking, Mirroring, Experiential Language |
| 10 | Thu, Dec 10, 2026 | Module 3 · Theory “And If You Didn’t Do That?” – Defense Work Beyond loving the defense – strategies and interventions for defenses that won’t easily make space. |
| 11 | Thu, Dec 17, 2026 | Module 3 · Tape Working with a More Protected Client |
| 12 | Thu, Jan 7, 2027 | Module 3 · Case Presentation Case Presentation by Group Member |
| 13 | Thu, Jan 14, 2027 | Module 3 · Experiential Role Plays, Working with Defenses |
| 14 | Thu, Jan 21, 2027 | Module 4 · Theory “All That Glitters Is Not Gold” – Working with Maladaptive Emotions Working with the pit of the trauma, toxic shame, hopelessness and helplessness, identifying and transforming maladaptive emotions, receptive affective capacity. |
| 15 | Thu, Jan 28, 2027 | Module 4 · Tape Transforming Maladaptive Emotions with a Client |
| 16 | Thu, Feb 4, 2027 | Case Discussions and Continued Learning |
| 17 | Thu, Feb 11, 2027 | Module 4 · Experiential Working with Our Receptive Affective Capacities |
| 18 | Thu, Feb 25, 2027 | Module 5 · Theory “Hard and Right” – Working with PTSD and C-PTSD What is trauma processing? AEDP as exposure therapy, self-compassion, mourning the self. |
| 19 | Thu, Mar 4, 2027 | Module 5 · Continued Continued Presentation on Themes of Working with C-PTSD |
| 20 | Thu, Mar 11, 2027 | Module 5 · Case Presentation Case Presentation by Group Member |
| 21 | Thu, Mar 18, 2027 | Module 5 · Guest Lecture Guest Lecture |
| 22 | Thu, Mar 25, 2027 | Module 6 · Theory “What’s It Like?” – AEDP States 3 & 4 Transformational processes, Metaprocessing, Integration. |
| 23 | Thu, Apr 1, 2027 | Module 6 · Tape Transformance in Action |
| 24 | Thu, Apr 8, 2027 | Module 6 · Experiential Metatherapeutic Processing and Integration |
| 25 | Thu, Apr 15, 2027 | Ending Together |
* No sessions: Thanksgiving (Nov 26), Christmas week (Dec 24), New Year’s week (Dec 31), week of Feb 15 (Feb 18), week of Apr 22.