Trauma Therapy — Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
Gentle, effective healing for the heavy parts of life
When past experiences echo in your mind—through flashbacks, distressing images, or emotional triggers—you don’t have to carry them forever. ART offers a way forward: an evidence-based, efficient, and empowering therapy that helps you process trauma without talking through every painful detail.
What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a structured, client‑centered psychotherapy designed to help you quickly reprocess distressing memories. It blends eye movement techniques—similar to what occurs during REM sleep—with guided imagery and memory rescripting. Over just a few sessions, negative images lose their intensity and emotional charge.
ART is rooted in well-established therapeutic approaches—like EMDR, CBT, Gestalt, and psychodynamic therapy—but works more rapidly, often delivering noticeable results in only 1 to 5 sessions.
How does ART actually work?
- Safe, focused recall
You briefly bring a distressing memory or mental image into mind—without needing to describe or relive the details. - Guided eye movements
As you gently follow a ball or light moving side to side, these bilateral eye movements help your brain reprocess the memory more adaptively. - Voluntary image replacement
Once the emotional intensity fades, you’re guided to replace the negative image with a neutral or positive one of your choosing. This helps re‑store the memory as neutral—a fact, not a trigger. - Reprogramming the memory
The memory remains—nothing is erased—but it no longer holds power over your emotions or daily life. - Closure and integration
Sessions end with grounding and emotional integration, so you leave feeling stable, lighter, and more in control.
Why ART stands out
- Speed + effectiveness: Many clients find relief within just 1–5 sessions, compared to longer-term therapies.
- Less distress: You don’t need to talk through your trauma—no verbal retelling required unless you choose to.
- Brain‑based approach: ART helps “rewire” how memories are stored, so triggers lose their power.
- Versatile healing: ART has helped with PTSD, anxiety, depression, OCD, phobias, grief, pain, performance anxiety—and more.
ART in our compassionate, personalized frame
Here, ART is offered within that same neuro‑affirming, empathetic style you’ve come to expect—warm, respectful, and deeply attentive. You remain in control; I’m here as your guide—never rushing, only walking alongside you as you reclaim calm from your memories.
Ready to give yourself the relief you deserve without re-living pain? Click through to learn more about ART—and let’s begin the path toward healing together.