What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?

If you’ve ever felt stuck in traditional talk therapy—rehashing painful memories without relief—ART offers something different. This isn’t about endlessly processing your story. It’s about changing how your brain holds onto it.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps you move through trauma, anxiety, grief, phobias, and other deeply held pain—often in just one to five sessions. Using gentle eye movements and guided visualization, ART allows your brain to reprocess distressing memories and images, reducing their emotional charge without requiring you to verbally relive every detail.

What makes ART different:

It’s not talk therapy. You don’t have to narrate your trauma or explain yourself to heal. You remain in control of what you share—and many clients find relief while keeping the most painful details private.
It’s efficient. ART was designed to work quickly. Clients often experience significant shifts in a single session, even with experiences they’ve carried for decades.
It’s body-informed. ART works with the way memories are stored—not just cognitively, but somatically. You’re not just “understanding” your pain differently; you’re releasing it.
It’s recognized. ART is listed in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.

How I integrate ART into my practice:

I weave ART into my work alongside Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gestalt and psychodrama techniques, polyvagal theory, attachment theory, enneagram insights, somatic and spiritual approaches, and a deep foundation in complex trauma. This means we can use ART to clear the emotional debris that’s keeping you stuck—and then deepen the work with frameworks that help you understand your patterns, strengthen your relationships, and build a life that reflects who you’re becoming. ART often accelerates what might otherwise take months in traditional therapy, creating space for the relational and self-discovery work that follows.

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