Adult Interpersonal Process Groups (pdf)
Professional Biography
Dr. Wilson (she/her/hers) is a licensed psychologist and came to HRC in January 2011 from her position as a staff psychologist and coordinator of the group psychotherapy program at Auburn University’s Student Counseling Services. She graduated with her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from Auburn University in 2008 after completing her predoctoral internship training at the University of South Carolina’s Counseling and Human Development Center.
Dr. Wilson is deeply invested in continuing to pursue postdoctoral training and, as such, she has been intensively training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) over the last few years and is delighted to call it her “therapeutic home”. She is currently a Level 2 AEDP therapist and is working toward her Level 3 designation. She provides AEDP-focused individual psychotherapy to adults (ages 18+) with a variety of presenting concerns including:
• Attachment-related struggles;
• Relational issues and/or relationally-based trauma (e.g., complex PTSD; family-of-origin concerns; etc.);
• Depression;
• Anxiety;
• Grief and loss;
• Adjustment/transitional issues;
• Identity and/or developmental/stage-of-life concerns.
Dr. Wilson also periodically offers an AEDP-based, 8-week course called “Emotions Education 101”. For more information, please visit: Emotions Education 101:
As she has a strong background in doing clinical work in university counseling center settings, Dr. Wilson particularly enjoys working with university students (both undergraduate and postgraduate).
Also, Dr. Wilson welcomes and celebrates diversity in her practice and works with her clients to address, understand, and heal the harm done by oppression, discrimination, and social injustice. She works with adult clients from diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic and religious backgrounds, and is an allied and affirmative provider to LGBQ-TGNC+ persons.
Personal Statement
From the beginning of my life, and most especially in my professional training as a psychologist, I have been aware of and moved by the deeply transformational, healing power of human relationships. As such, I am delighted to have had the honor of training intensively in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic approach that is:
• Healing- and resilience-oriented;
• Attachment-based, deeply relational;
• Experientially- and emotionally-focused;
• Transformation-focused;
• Empirically-supported;
• Rooted in relational/psychodynamic models of therapy, trauma studies, interpersonal neurobiology, affective neuroscience, and transformational studies.
As a psychologist specializing in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), I am deeply committed to creating a safe and compassionate therapeutic space where clients can explore their emotional worlds (especially the parts of themselves/their experiences that have had to be disconnected from due to lack of safety, trauma, etc.), heal from past wounds that haunt them in the present, and cultivate meaningful, authentic connections with themselves and others.
Through the safety and emotional attunement of our relationship, I work with my clients to process and transform difficult emotions, particularly those related to early attachment experiences and relational trauma, in a way that is both gentle and empowering—and, ultimately, transformational.
With a focus on experiential, present-moment exploration of their somatic and affective experiences, I guide my clients toward a deeper understanding of their emotional patterns and work with them to integrate and heal the most wounded parts of themselves. As an AEDP therapist, I also focus on and delight in helping my clients recognize and deepen into their felt-sense of their expansive emotions (i.e., joy, excitement, awe) and increased self-compassion that often emerge as, and signal that, healing and transformation are occurring.
My ultimate goal is to help my clients achieve a greater sense of emotional freedom, connection to their inherent resilience, self-compassion, and relational satisfaction—and, as a result, to experience a deeply felt sense of how moving and meaningful life and our relationships can be.
I’m truly honored that you’ve taken the time to learn about me and my psychotherapy practice—thank you!
If you’d like to learn more about AEDP, please visit: www.aedpinstitute.org
Certifications and Associations:
American Psychological Association, Member
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Institute, Member
Level 2 AEDP Therapist
Phone Number: (919) 442-1125
Appointments: To discuss scheduling an appointment, please call my voicemail directly at (919) 442-1125 and I will return your call as soon as I am able. I do offer some evening appointments.