ART’s History—

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)* is an innovative, exposure-based treatment and requires no homework or skills practice. ART is very specific, and the approach is more direct, compared to other types of therapies.

ART was developed in 2008 by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Laney Rosenzweig. Laney first used the ART technique successfully to treat a client with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) during a one-hour session.

Since then, the procedure has been refined to help individuals overcome issues related to Post-Traumatic Stress, physical and sexual abuse, depression, eating disorders, chronic pain, and many phobias.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy has been clinically demonstrated to resolve PTSD symptoms. ART is recognized as evidenced-based by the Society of Clinical Psychology, Div. 12 of the American Psychological Association (APA). “evidence-based practice”

The Science Behind ART—

The therapist will guide clients using side-to-side or bilateral eye movements. Eye movements are designed to stimulate both hemispheres of the brain simultaneously. This stimulation helps the brain to process traumatic memories or distressing situations in a way that stores them for long-term recall without provoking intense emotional reactions.

  1. Bilateral Eye Movements: Facilitates Memory Reconsolidation

  2. Voluntary Image Replacement: Alters Negative Imagery with Positive Visualizations (Positization)

Benefits of ART Therapy—

  1. Expedited Relief: Most clients experience significant therapeutic results within as short as 1 to 5 sessions.

  2. Client Controlled: ART places significant emphasis on client comfort and agency throughout the therapeutic process. The client maintains autonomy over what memories to address and how much detail to share during the process.

  3. Expanding Applications: ART can be used with children and adults, for individual as well as couple’s therapy. ARThas been found effective a variety of issues such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, and grief.

  4. Therapy Modality Integration: ART can be combined with other modalities like Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Narrative Therapy in order to effectively create a personalized therapeutic journey.

Therapeutic Process of an ART Session—

  1. Assessment: Working with counselor to identify distressing memories/issues address.

  2. Processing: Engaging with distressing memories or issues with eye-movements in order to process them out.

  3. Desensitization: The emotional distress associated with specific distressing memory/issue is reduced.

  4. Image Rescripting: Transformation of distressing images associated with memories/issues from negative to positive/neutral.

  5. Integration: The enmeshment of a new perspectives into the broader understanding of your memory/issue.

What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)—

Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a remarkable eye movement therapy that provides consistent and reliable relief in treating anxiety, phobias, addictions and trauma.