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Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

Mental health treatment with eye movement therapy. No drugs. No hypnosis. Email robin@acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com for a brochure. ART is not hypnosis.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a form of psychotherapy with roots in existing evidence-based therapies but shown to achieve benefits much more rapidly (usually within 1-5 sessions). Clients with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, sexual abuse and many other mental and physical conditions can experience remarkable benefits starting in the first session. The client is always in control of the entire ART session, with the therapist guiding the process. Although some traumatic experiences such as r**e, combat experiences, or loss of a loved one can be very painful to think about or visualize, the therapy rapidly moves clients beyond the place where they are stuck in these experiences toward growth and positive changes.

01/16/2026

"𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳.”
We say that because it’s true. Healing often looks like two steps forward, one step back. It looks like progress you can feel one day and patterns you slip into the next. And that doesn’t erase the work you’ve done. You’ve come a long way. None of that effort disappears.
But here’s the part we rarely talk about:
Healing doesn’t have to be painful, and it doesn’t have to take forever.
People often describe healing as peeling back layers. You move through one, then another, but only when your body is ready to let go. That can feel slow. It can feel like a lifetime.
ART changes that because it works at the root.
Instead of peeling layers, you reprocess the images and sensations that have held those layers in place. When the nervous system stops reacting to the old material, you stop looping in the same patterns. You start seeing yourself in a new way, with a new identity and a different way of responding.
This is why ART creates lasting shifts in a short amount of time.
Not over years of trying another therapist, another method, another tool.
With many clients, even one session can move what felt immovable for years, because the brain is finally doing the work it couldn’t complete before.
Healing isn’t linear.
But it also isn’t meant to be endless.
When the root changes, the path forward becomes clear, steady, and yours.

If you’re ready to make real, lasting change, find an ART trained therapist near you
www.ARTworksnow.com

01/14/2026

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘃𝘀. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) stands out because it focuses on the process of healing rather than the content of trauma. But what does that mean? And why does it work so quickly compared to traditional therapies?
1️⃣ Healing Without Rehashing
ART uses bilateral eye movements paired with Voluntary Image Replacement (VIR) to help the brain alter images and sensations associated with distressing memories, reducing emotional weight without reliving painful details over and over.
2️⃣ Client-Centered
You’re in control. ART allows you to heal without sharing the specifics of your trauma, keeping the process empowering and safe.
3️⃣ No Re-Traumatization
Unlike traditional therapies, ART minimizes the risk of retraumatization by focusing on how you heal, not on revisiting and rehashing the memories of the past.
4️⃣ Fast Results
In just 1-5 sessions, ART helps you feel "unstuck". No long, retraumatizing homework exposure homework assignments are required. Each session brings closure.
ART’s process keeps sessions moving, creates resolution, and empowers you to move forward confidently.
Find an ART Trained Therapist near you and Learn more: www.ARTworksnow.com

01/11/2026

Trauma Doesn’t Just Change How You Feel. It Changes How Your Brain Works.

When you’ve been through trauma, it doesn’t just live as a memory. It rewires the brain on a deep, physical level so you continuously relive the trauma.
Brain scans show measurable changes:

🧠 The amygdala, your internal alarm system, becomes hyperactive — constantly scanning for danger.
🧠 The hippocampus, which organizes memories in time and space, can actually physically shrink under chronic stress.
🧠The prefrontal cortex, responsible for logic, focus, and emotional regulation, goes offline when the body feels unsafe.

That’s why “talking it out” often isn’t enough. The parts of the brain affected by trauma don’t speak in words — they speak in images, sensations, and emotions.

Traditional talk therapy can help you understand your story, but understanding doesn’t always calm the nervous system.

And exposure-based therapies often ask you to relive the trauma many more times, which can be effective, but some people find the process emotionally difficult.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) takes a different road, because it helps your brain to change the images and sensations to give you a positive perspective.

Through bilateral eye movements and guided imagery, ART helps the brain access the memory reconsolidation window — a brief but powerful opening when the brain can reimagine a memory differently and safely.
When accessed in the right way, this process activates the brain’s natural ability to heal.
You don’t have to force new thoughts — the cognitions shift on their own once the negative images and sensations are removed.
You don’t have to think your way into feeling safe.
With ART, you feel safe — and at the session’s end, your mind follows.

Find an ART trained therapist near you www.ARTworksnow.com

01/08/2026

PTSD is not always obvious.  It often shows up in patterns people think are “just how I am.”
According to the DSM-5, PTSD symptoms fall into three groups: intrusions, avoidance, and hyperarousal.
Intrusions  These are unwanted memories, images, or body reactions.  People online describe it as:  “Memories replaying like I am right back there.”  “My body reacts before I even know what hit me.”
Avoidance  Avoidance can shape your whole routine without you realizing it.  Examples people share:  “I avoid the mailbox because even looking at it makes my chest tighten.”  “I barely leave the house.”
Hyperarousal  This is the body stuck in threat mode.  Common examples:  “Sitting with my back to the wall.”  “Scanning every exit without thinking.”  “Tired but wired all day.”
Many people do not notice how much of their life is organized around staying safe from reminders.
  Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) helps the brain reprocess the images and sensations linked to traumatic memories. Research shows ART can reduce PTSD symptoms by changing the way the nervous system responds to triggers while the factual memory stays intact. Clients report that the memory becomes less activating, the body settles, and the old reactions lose their grip.
ART does not require long verbal retelling, and it works with the brain’s natural ability to change old images. When the emotional charge shifts, patterns like hypervigilance, avoidance, and intrusive reactions ease or disappear entirely.

Find an ART trained therapist near you
www.ARTworksnow.com

01/07/2026

Kids learn through play—pretending, imagining, and seeing things in new ways.
Adults aren’t all that different. Your brain still learns best through images, sensations, and imagination—not lectures and logic.

And the part of you that holds pain (from trauma, anxiety, grief, or overwhelm) responds far more to feeling and imagery than to “thinking harder.”
That inner world speaks in pictures and metaphors, not adult-level reasoning.

Traditional talk therapy relies on the rational brain—the part that analyzes and explains.
But the emotional brain doesn’t change through reasoning alone.
That’s why you can understand everything perfectly and still feel stuck.

Knowing isn’t the same as feeling better.

Speak the Language of the heART

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works by engaging in the childlike, imaginative part of your mind—the part that understands life through feelings, images, and symbol-like stories.

With simple metaphors, visualizations, and calming eye movements, ART helps the brain update the emotional charge around difficult memories.
You don’t have to wrestle with logic.
You get to experience the shift.

Your “adult” mind might be trying to figure everything out…
but your emotional system is the one actually running the show.
ART meets that part of you—gently, creatively, and with a sense of play.

If you’re ready to find a new way of healing find an ART-trained therapist at
www.ARTworksNow.com

01/06/2026

If you’ve made the same New Year’s resolution year after year, you know the emotional roller coaster:
You start hopeful. Motivated. Telling yourself, This time will be different.
Maybe you’ve talked it through in therapy.
Maybe you hired a coach.
Maybe you planned, journaled, visualized, and white-knuckled your way through January.
But when the cycle repeats — when the resolution slips again — something deeper begins to hurt:
You stop trusting yourself.
You start believing, Maybe this is just the way I am.
Maybe change isn’t possible for me.
That loss of self-trust can feel heavier than the failed resolution itself.
ART sees it differently.
ART holds the belief that if you want to change, you can — and that real change happens when your brain and body are able to shift together.
ART helps your nervous system stop fighting the new behavior as if it’s unsafe.
It helps your internal “story” update so you can embody the version of yourself you’re trying to become.
And when the change becomes part of your identity, sticking with it by the end of the year feels less like a battle — and more like alignment.
What would it feel like to set a goal and actually keep it?
To feel proud of yourself?
To trust yourself again?
To see evidence that you can become someone new?
You deserve that story.
Find an ART-trained therapist near you:
www.ARTworksnow.com

01/05/2026

You don’t have to explain it to heal it.
For many people, traditional therapy means talking through the trauma. But what if that feels too overwhelming… or just plain exhausting?
Maybe you’ve told your story a dozen times.
Maybe you’re tired of rehashing it.
Maybe the thought of saying it out loud fills you with shame.

This is where Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is different!
ART helps you process the memory without having to describe it.

Using eye movements and visualizations, your brain can actually reprocess the traumatic experience—without you needing to speak it out loud.
There’s minimal verbal processing, and no need to continuously relive or explain everything.

Instead, your nervous system gets the chance to calm down and rewire the memory on a deep level—so it no longer hijacks the present moment.
Whether you’re burned out from retelling it, afraid to say it out loud, or just ready for something that actually works...
ART offers a different path to healing. One that doesn’t require words, just willingness.
Find an ART trained therapist near you: www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com

12/29/2025

You know that scene in Good Will Hunting when Skylar tells Will she loves him, and he shuts down? He jokes, deflects, and picks a fight. She wants to love him, and he can’t let her.
He’d rather blow everything up than risk being seen, or worse, being hurt again.
We recognize it because we’ve lived it.
You start to open up, and suddenly, you pull back.

💼 You finally get recognition at work, or a new opportunity — and suddenly you freeze, procrastinate, or convince yourself you’re not ready. The unknown feels riskier than staying small.

💰 You start saving money, setting boundaries, or building healthy habits — then something in you sabotages the progress. Because part of you still believes comfort isn’t meant for you.
💔You meet someone who feels safe — and the moment it starts getting real, you pull away, pick a fight, or shut down emotionally. Your body mistakes closeness for danger.

You’re not weak. You’re not broken.
You’re scared of the unfamiliar safety you say you want.
Your brain knows you’re okay, but your nervous system doesn’t.
It still believes that closeness leads to pain, that hope leads to loss.
So it protects you the only way it knows how: by sabotaging the good before it can leave.
In Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), that protective part finally gets to be met with compassion instead of shame. Through guided imagery and calming eye movements, your body learns what it feels like to move forward safely. Connect with a successful future version of you, the one who can hold her with tenderness instead of fear.
That’s the moment the nervous system learns something new:
“It’s safe to stay. Safe to succeed. Safe to love.”
If you’re tired of taking two steps forward and one step back, ART can help your nervous system feel safer moving toward the life you want.
www.ARTworksnow.com

12/23/2025

“Somatic healing” is everywhere right now, and for good reason.
People are finally talking about the part of trauma that shows up in the body — tension, pain, tight breathing, panic, shutdown, the reactions that don’t match the situation but feel impossible to stop.
Somatic approaches help because trauma isn’t stored only in thoughts. It lives in the nervous system, in breath patterns, in how the body braces itself. That’s why talking alone can bring clarity but not always relief.
What matters most is this:
When the body still feels unsafe, the mind can’t fully settle.
And when the nervous system begins to regulate, everything else shifts.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) supports the body and mind together. With imagery and eye movements, clients can release the physical reactions that talking alone couldn’t reach, using imagery and eye movements to change the way the nervous system experiences the memory. At the end of the session, the client has the memory factually, but their body no longer reacts as if the trauma is happening now, and the emotional effect becomes normal.
The results are noticeable:
less tension, fewer triggers, better sleep, calmer reactions, and a body that no longer carries the weight of old experiences.
Research shows ART can rapidly reduce symptoms of PTSD and trauma-related distress in 1-5 sessions, and many clients report decreases in anxiety, depressive, and physical symptoms linked to trauma.
If you’ve talked through your trauma and still feel it in your body, there is another path forward. ART helps the body and brain release what words alone couldn’t reach.
Find an ART trained therapist near you www.ARTworksnow.com

12/22/2025

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12/19/2025

If you're interested in becoming an 𝘼𝙍𝙏 trained practitioner, or if you'd like to go deeper into your 𝘼𝙍𝙏 practice, sign up for one of our trainings!

𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (𝘼𝙍𝙏) takes the best of well known therapies including Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral, Exposure (imaginal, in-vivo), relaxation techniques, and Brief Psycho-dynamic therapy and combines with soothing bilateral eye movements. 𝘼𝙍𝙏 utilizes a re-scripting process called Voluntary Image Replacement (VIR) to assist clients in replacing negative images with positive ones.

𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

You will learn how to use metaphors as a standalone intervention which is known as 𝘼𝙍𝙏’s Metaphorical Moment. The Metaphorical Moment can be inserted into the Basic 𝘼𝙍𝙏 protocol but can also be used as the format for an entire session. You will also learn additional advanced 𝘼𝙍𝙏 techniques.
This 𝘼𝙍𝙏 training will also spend time on problems such as OCD, Substance problems and phobias. It will offer further tips on how to approach these problems. It utilizes The Typical Day which you learned in Basic 𝘼𝙍𝙏 but it also includes the use of other 𝘼𝙍𝙏 interventions.

𝗦𝗔𝗙-𝗧 - 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲
SĀF-T focuses on moving sensations in the body. Motivation of the participant is key to its success. This technique is designed to produce a calming effect and can be safely used with adults and children. The goal is to alleviate negative sensations associated with anxiety, physical discomfort and relief of some pain symptoms. SĀF-T is not therapy although it utilizes eye movements similar to those used during a therapy session. SĀF-T is appropriate for anyone who would benefit from improved stress management.

To learn more about 𝘼𝙍𝙏 and the types of training available near you, visit www.ARTworksnow.com to find out more about available trainings.

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