Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
When you know what happened, but your nervous system still reacts like it’s happening now.
ART is an evidence-based trauma therapy that uses imagery, eye movements, and memory reconsolidation techniques to help change the way distressing experiences are stored and experienced.
You don’t have to spend session after session retelling every detail of what happened. ART offers a structured way to work with difficult memories, images, sensations, and emotional responses while helping you remain grounded in the present.
You Might Consider ART If...
You understand where some of your reactions come from, but understanding hasn't changed them.
A memory, image, conversation, or experience continues to feel emotionally charged.
Your body reacts before your logical mind has time to catch up.
You find yourself replaying situations or imagining how something should have gone differently.
You feel stuck in fear, anger, shame, grief, resentment, or another emotional response that doesn't seem to resolve.
You've done a lot of talking and reflecting and are ready to try something more experiential.
You don't need to have PTSD or identify a single "big trauma" for ART to potentially be useful.
ART Doesn't Require You to Tell Me Every Detail.
There are experiences we may want help processing without wanting to describe every part of them to another person.
With ART, that's possible.
You remain aware of the experience you're working with, but you don't have to tell me everything you're seeing, remembering, or imagining. My role is to guide you through the process while helping you remain grounded and within a tolerable level of activation.
NOTICE
Identify the memory, image, sensation, or emotional response that continues to feel charged.
Start with a complimentary 15-minute consultation.
What Is Accelerated Resolution Therapy?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, often called ART, is a structured therapy that combines eye movements with imagery-based techniques to help the brain change how distressing experiences are stored.
One of the distinctive features of ART is that you don't necessarily have to describe every detail of an experience out loud. You know what you're working on, and I guide you through a structured process while you remain in control of what you choose to share.
ART doesn't erase what happened or convince you that something wasn't painful.
The goal is to help the memory stay in the past without your mind and body continuing to respond as though it's happening now.
PROCESS
Use guided imagery and eye movements to work with the way the experience is being held.
REPLACE
Use ART's imagery techniques to change distressing images while preserving your understanding of what actually happened.
Why I Often Use Longer ART Sessions
Your existing page already has ART intensives buried near the bottom.
Move that way up.
ART lends itself beautifully to your 90-minute model, and that differentiates your practice.
Something like:
ART is structured, but I don't believe trauma work should be rushed simply because we've reached the end of a traditional therapy hour.
Most of my individual therapy sessions are intentionally 90 minutes, which gives us more time to prepare, complete meaningful processing, and leave space to integrate before you return to the rest of your day.
For clients wanting more concentrated work, ART intensive sessions are also available.
EXPLORE THERAPY INTENSIVES
What Can ART Help With?
ART is often associated with trauma, but trauma doesn't always look like a single catastrophic event.
I may incorporate ART when we're working with experiences or patterns such as:
Trauma & Painful Experiences
Distressing memories, frightening experiences, childhood experiences, medical experiences, loss, or events that continue to carry an emotional charge.
Relationships & Attachment
Rejection, betrayal, abandonment, relationship endings, attachment injuries, family-of-origin experiences, or painful interactions that continue to replay.
Anxiety & Emotional Reactivity
Fear responses, anticipatory anxiety, intrusive images, emotional triggers, or situations where your body reacts more intensely than you want it to.
Grief & Life Transitions
Losses, endings, identity changes, reproductive experiences, or significant transitions that have been difficult to integrate.