I started providing therapy to people with trauma history in 2011. For years, I was frustrated by the limited results and painful process of traditional trauma therapies. Very few people want to talk about their traumatic experiences over and over in excruciating detail. When I discovered Accelerated Resolution Therapy in 2016, everything changed. Finally, I could offer my clients a path to healing that didn't require them to repeatedly talk about their pain.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy developed by Laney Rosenzweig in 2008. It's designed to help people process and recover from trauma through a combination of eye movements and voluntary memory/image replacement techniques.
The key aspects of ART include:
1. Rapid treatment - Sessions typically last 75-90 minutes, and many clients report significant improvement in just 1-5 sessions.
2. Eye movements - Similar to EMDR therapy, ART uses smooth eye movements while the client focuses on traumatic memories or problematic situations. The therapist guides the client's eyes moving horizontally back and forth.
3. Voluntary Memory/Image Replacement - After processing the difficult memory through eye movements, clients are guided to voluntarily change or "replace" the troubling images with more positive ones, helping to reduce the emotional impact of the original memory.
4. No detailed trauma narrative required - Unlike some trauma therapies, clients don't need to verbally share the details of their trauma, which can make the process much less emotionally overwhelming. If you do want to talk about your traumatic experiences, that's totally OK too.
The therapy aims to change how distressing memories and images are stored in the brain, reducing their emotional impact while keeping the important learnings from those experiences intact. It's been used to treat:
- PTSD and trauma
- Anxiety and phobias
- Depression
- Grief and loss
- Performance anxiety
- Addiction
- Chronic pain
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a relatively new form of psychotherapy developed by Laney Rosenzweig in 2008. It's designed to help people process and recover from trauma through a combination of eye movements and voluntary memory/image replacement techniques.
The key aspects of ART include:
1. Rapid treatment - Sessions typically last 75-90 minutes, and many clients report significant improvement in just 1-5 sessions.
2. Eye movements - Similar to EMDR therapy, ART uses smooth eye movements while the client focuses on traumatic memories or problematic situations. The therapist guides the client's eyes moving horizontally back and forth.
3. Voluntary Memory/Image Replacement - After processing the difficult memory through eye movements, clients are guided to voluntarily change or "replace" the troubling images with more positive ones, helping to reduce the emotional impact of the original memory.
4. No detailed trauma narrative required - Unlike some trauma therapies, clients don't need to verbally share the details of their trauma, which can make the process much less emotionally overwhelming. If you do want to talk about your traumatic experiences, that's totally OK too.
The therapy aims to change how distressing memories and images are stored in the brain, reducing their emotional impact while keeping the important learnings from those experiences intact. It's been used to treat:
- PTSD and trauma
- Anxiety and phobias
- Depression
- Grief and loss
- Performance anxiety
- Addiction
- Chronic pain