White Sands

Counseling Center

Accelerated

Resolution

Therapy

(ART)

"With a new day comes new

strengths and new thoughts."

Eleanor Roosevelt

What Is ART Therapy?

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a unique approach to psychotherapy. ART is unique because the ART Therapist guides the client to replace the negative images in the mind that cause the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress with positive images of the client’s choosing. And this is done quickly, most often within one session! Once the negative images have been replaced by positive ones, the triggers will be gone. Nightmares and repeated intrusive thoughts will stop.

One of the special aspects of ART is that when clients replace their negative images with positive ones they don’t need to talk to the therapist about any details of the trauma. This is because ART is procedural, though creative; and the client is really in control of the process, while the ART Therapist is a helpful guide. This makes the therapy easier on the client and easier on the therapist.

Although some traumatic experiences can be very painful to visualize, early in the ART session the client has already rapidly moved beyond the place where they are stuck in these past experiences and is making positive changes of their choice. ART sessions are calming for the client and very often joyful, especially at the end, for both the client and the therapist.

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Research

Some of the growing body of research that shows ART can do this may be found by clicking the following link:

https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/evidence-based/

ART is recognized as evidenced-based by the Society of Clinical Psychology, Div. 12 of the American Psychological Association (APA). ART is also unique in that it combines the enormous power of eye movements to allow voluntary changes in the client’s mind with well-established therapies like Gestalt, Psychodynamic Therapy and Guided Imagery. Within the ART protocol, the eye movements, along with other ART enhancements, make these therapies work much faster and more effectively.

With these therapies, combined with ART’s eye movements and other ART enhancements, many mental health problems other than Post Traumatic Stress can also be resolved quickly. Among the things ART can deal with are OCD, Eating Disorders, Generalized Anxiety and Generalized Depressive Disorders. ART can deal with traumas often associated with Dyslexia but also go beyond that to improve reading! (The issues that have been resolved by ART are listed more fully below.)

Here are some issues that have been quickly and effectively treated by ART:

-Anxiety
-Depression
-Phobias
-Panic Attacks
-Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
-Post Traumatic Stress (PTS)
-Addictions/ Substance Abuse
-Performance Anxiety
-Family Issues
-Victimization/Poor Self Image
-Victimization/Sexual Abuse
-Relationship Issues/Infidelity
-Codependency
-Grief
-Job-Related Stress
-Pain Management
-Memory Enhancement
-Dyslexia Anxiety