You have experienced mental or physical trauma, and traditional therapies have proved largely ineffective. It still lives in your body as much as your mind. You feel stuck, trapped and hopeless. 

There’s a kind of therapy developed from proven techniques that can help you get past stuck, and into healing and growth: Accelerated Resolution Therapy, or ART, has been recognized as an evidence-based treatment (https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/evidence-based/) for psychological trauma and depression. 

Working with a clinician trained in ART, you’ll develop the tools to replace negative mental images with positive ones, thereby bypassing patterns that have informed the feeling of stuckness you seek freedom from. With the replacement of negative images with positive ones, the triggers to your anxiety, depression and compulsion are also alleviated. ART uses specific calming and therapeutic evidence-based eye movements, along with other techniques grounded in well-established therapies like Gestalt, psychodynamic therapy, and guided imagery. While your therapist is the guide, you are in control of the process. Along with relief, you’ll enjoy a sense of agency and empowerment over your own mental health and healing.

Is ART the same as EMDR?

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are both therapies that help people heal from trauma, but they use different methods. ART focuses on changing how someone remembers a painful memory by guiding them to "rewrite" the memory with a more positive or neutral image while following the therapist's hand movements. This approach can often bring quick relief because it shifts the way the memory is stored in the brain.

EMDR, meanwhile, helps people process traumatic memories by focusing on the memory while receiving eye movements or other bilateral stimulation. Unlike ART, EMDR does not involve changing the memory itself; instead, it allows the mind to process it naturally, reducing its emotional impact over time. Both ART and EMDR are effective for trauma, but ART is a bit more directed, while EMDR lets memories settle on their own.