AAIT™ Foundations · For therapists and counselors
How to relieve trauma and more without wading through weeks of pain
Practitioners supported. Communities strengthened.
Discover a paradigm and approach to alleviating psycho-emotional pain for your client (and yourself) without laborious excavations into the past. AAIT™ Foundations lays the groundwork for accessing sustainable change in minutes, not weeks.
Do you serve at-risk or underserved populations? You may qualify for a scholarship.
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There is an easier path to relief and wholeness
It does not demand that we spend weeks trying to understand the implications of a narrative or building toward relief. We can help our clients (and ourselves) access resolution and relief within minutes.
Experience the satisfaction of watching your clients get lasting relief in almost every session with a fresh approach to change rooted in resilience and freedom.
What you will gain
AAIT™ Foundations supports you in
- Helping clients access relief and sustainable change rooted in resolution, resilience and freedom
- Supporting clients with emotional regulation
- Discovering where to target your intervention
- Finding an easy flow for efficient, efficacious sessions that leave you and your clients uplifted
- Easily accessing deeper levels of compassion and wholeness by working from other points of view, uprooting the tendency to repeat the same triggered reactivity in similar circumstances
- Bypassing resistance with ease
- Supporting your clients as they disrupt dysregulated states in minutes
- Applying deceptively simple tools to help clients release stress from negative thinking and return to calm
- Using the principles of AAIT™ to get yourself out of the psychotherapy weeds and give context to your clients' new experiences
- Creating an easy self-care embodiment practice with AAIT™ to finally break free of long-standing problems
Who it is for
Who is AAIT™ Foundations for?
What makes AAIT™ different
Resolution at the root cause
Resolution at the root, not symptom management.
Most therapeutic models focus on insight and symptom management. AAIT™ resolves issues at their root cause by helping clients integrate opposing psychological states, thoughts, images, emotions, and sensations that have not been fully processed.
This integration frees them from persistent pain and reactivity, often leading to a state of calm awareness and lasting peace, sometimes within a single session.
AAIT™ blends insights from
- Ericksonian Hypnosis
- Re-decision Therapy
- Self-Acceptance Training
- Non-Dual Philosophy
- Energy Psychology
All woven into a cohesive, proven model of care.
See it in practice
What is Acceptance and Integration Training® (AAIT™)?
Explained by founder Melanie McGhee, LCSW, and heard from therapists who use it.
The curriculum
What is inside AAIT™ Foundations?
In AAIT™ Foundations, you will learn to help clients easily develop an increased capacity for emotional regulation, release long-standing difficult problems and resolve trauma within minutes, not weeks.
AAIT™ focuses on rapid healing, and client wisdom and insights arise naturally. It offers an efficient and structured approach that leaves practitioners feeling uplifted and creative rather than exhausted and helpless. AAIT™ provides the means to break free from imposter syndrome.
AAIT™ Foundations emphasizes self-care practices and offers tools to rekindle excitement for your work. By learning techniques that provide rapid results, you will feel more fulfilled and less overwhelmed in your practice.
Finally, AAIT™ equips practitioners with skills to address a wide range of concerns, including perinatal mental health, trauma, severe depression and anxiety, substance misuse, LGBTQAI+ issues, spiritual well-being and much more.
Your faculty
Meet your instructors
Rick Fridrick
MSSW, LCSW, CFRC
Rick Fridrick is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist in Lafayette, Louisiana, with nearly two decades of experience in residential treatment, substance use programs, community mental health, and private practice. A colleague introduced him to AAIT™ in 2019. In early 2020, a personal session brought him a lasting sense of peace and became the turning point in both his own healing and his professional direction. He now serves as an AAIT™ Foundations Trainer, and he is one of the few licensed mental health professionals in Louisiana certified in the model.
Rick specializes in trauma, PTSD, grief, anxiety, depression, and addiction, and he has particular experience supporting first responders and veterans. His integrative approach weaves AAIT™ together with EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, IFS, and somatic methods. He values AAIT™ because it reduces suffering at the root and helps clients move from internal fragmentation toward clarity and emotional freedom, without prolonged analysis. As a trainer, he also helps clinicians feel more effective and less weighed down by the emotional residue of client work.
Stacy Hernandez
LPC
Stacy Hernandez is a mental health counselor who believes healing begins when people reconnect with their own inner strength, wisdom, and capacity for change. Her approach rests on compassion, authenticity, and empowerment. She creates a space where clients feel deeply supported and still get encouraged to grow past the patterns that leave them stuck, disconnected, or powerless. She sees therapy as a way to restore self-trust, never as a path to dependence on the therapist.
Stacy uses AAIT™ alongside evidence-based and mindfulness-informed methods to help clients build self-awareness, emotional resilience, and nervous system regulation. She works with clients to examine the patterns, beliefs, and experiences shaping their lives, then equips them with practical tools for lasting change. Her clients come to her for anxiety, stress, life transitions, relationship challenges, self-esteem, emotional overwhelm, and personal growth. Her style is warm and honest, with a gentle push toward accountability and forward movement.
What practitioners say
In their words
"I'm actually certified as a trauma focused CBT therapist because I did a lot of work with kids, and I have other trainings. None of my little techniques could decrease, so quickly, that strong emotional response the way AAIT™ does."
"I am stunned by the nature of this change in myself. A sense of excitement arises inside me like never before, as I feel hopeful for myself and my clients when I realized that AAIT™ is truly a way to alleviate the pain and suffering."
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Scholarships are available for practitioners who serve at-risk or underserved populations.