The Imaginal Realm: Working with Visual Mental Imagery in AEDP

DATE(S): Friday and Saturday, March 6 + 7, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EST
LOCATION: Interactive Synchronous Distance
PRESENTER(S): Mary Androff, MD, Psychotherapist 

Course Information

Visual mental imagery can be a powerful tool for helping clients access unconscious material, connect with core emotions, and create new, transformative narratives. Spontaneous images, recurring symbols, and dream fragments often provide entry points to affective experiences that might otherwise remain hidden. For many clients, imagery is more accessible than verbal, somatic, or emotional channels—and therapists who skillfully work with imagery can accelerate meaningful change.

In this seminar, you’ll explore how to use imagery to deepen affective processing, enhance right-brain engagement, and support relational and therapeutic growth. You’ll learn practical ways to integrate imagery into sessions, helping clients strengthen agency, creativity, and new ways of relating to themselves and others.

 

Presenter

Mary Androff, MD, is a faculty member of AEDP™ Institute. Based in Minneapolis-St Paul, Mary works in a private psychotherapy and integrative psychiatry practice and also provides psychiatric consultation for an Assertive Community Treatment team. Her journey to AEDP began with STEM (chemistry at University of Illinois), then medicine (Washington University-St Louis), then psychiatric residency (University of Washington, Seattle), then training in psychodynamic psychotherapy alongside daily yoga and meditation practices. Seeking a way to integrate all these threads and hoping to discover a more coherent theoretical framework, Mary found her professional home when she took the AEDP Immersion course. She went on to receive certification as an AEDP therapist in 2015 and as an AEDP supervisor in 2020. She founded AEDP Minnesota in 2017. She has run multiple study and consultation groups, participates as a treating clinician in the AEDP research program, teaches ES1 modules and provides individual and group AEDP supervision.