What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy?


Addressing Trauma & Emotional Reactivity

When we experience panic, worry, overreaction, or depression, we may be confronting an emotional flashback. In these moments, our bodies relive past emotional states while our mind sees past events or images. ART effectively disconnects the neural pathways between those events, images, and physical sensations, allowing us to put those experiences behind us once and for all. With ART, you can stop reliving the past in the present, freeing yourself to embrace a more positive future.

Common Issues Addressed by ART


  • Trauma
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • ADHD
  • Fear
  • Phobias
  • Nightmares
  • Disordered Eating
  • Cravings
  • Abuse

How It Works

"With ART, the process is very straightforward. Safely, with the therapist’s reassuring presence, the client undergoes sets of eye movements while silently recalling the traumatic scene. This phase of the ART therapy usually lasts from 30 seconds to about 10 minutes. Physical and emotional reactions are addressed through these sets of relaxing eye movements. This recall causes the window of opportunity to make client-selected favorable changes to the traumatic memory to open. Under the guidance of the ART trained therapist, clients are then empowered with the ability to make any changes they want to the images or other sensory experiences that come up with this memory. After engaging in this process for a relatively short amount of time (1-5 sessions), positive long-lasting changes are made. While clients retain the ability to recall the facts of the incident(s), they no longer experience the adverse effects that were previously associated with its recall. That is why we say, “Keep the Knowledge, Lose the Pain.””

Other Resources

ART Ted Talk
What is ART?
How ART Was Created
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