Trauma and Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Online trauma and PTSD therapy in Colorado and Texas
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“The most difficult aspect of discussing ART is the fact that it sounds too good to be true.”
-Laney Rosenzweig LMFT Creator of Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Your past has been haunting you. You can’t take it anymore.
Your head is always on a swivel, you’re hyper-aware of your surroundings…because your home growing up was not a safe place.
You loved going to concerts…but after being assaulted at a party you have to leave after the opener because the crowd gets to be too much.
You jump every time someone drops something or a door slams…because you grew up with childhood abuse in the home.
You aren’t present with your partner…not after you were sexually assaulted in college (it was not your fault, by the way).
You want to start trusting, to start a relationship…but fear of domestic violence happening as it did with your ex, keeps you from making a connection.
You flinch every time you hear metal scratching…it sounds like the car accident.
None of these things are intentional, you don’t consciously think “I hear a door slam, I should startle”. No, your body responds to the noise before you are even aware you heard it.
That is a trauma response.
You’ve been unsure if “trauma” is the right word, it seems so intense and others have had it so much worse.
You think you should be able to get over it and move on, but in the meantime, you’re struggling.
Your pain is your pain, you don’t have less because others have more.
Your body is constantly in a state of distress, as your brain is looking for a perceived threat in everything, it’s just trying to keep you safe.
It’s no wonder you’re always exhausted no matter how much you sleep. Speaking of sleep, the nightmares…the ones you’ve had for years when you wake up sweating with your heart beating out of your chest? I had a client that, after one ART session, 15 years of night terrors that even medication could not help were gone.
I’ve seen clients heal their younger selves, forgive people, love themselves, increase their confidence, repair relationships, and so much more.
How many more relationships need to be negatively impacted? How many more tears cried? How many more bottles of wine, avoiding everything and numbing out to Netflix?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) has been recognized as an effective psychotherapy for PTSD, depression, stress, and personal resilience. ART has also been classified as a promising therapy for symptoms of phobia, panic, anxiety, sleep and wake disorders, disruptive and antisocial behaviors, general functioning, and well-being.
How does ART work?
It’s like taking an R-rated movie and allowing you to do your own Director cut, leaving all the parts that bother or disturb you on the cutting room floor. Then you put your version back together as a G-rated movie. When you talk about it, your word story holds the R-rated facts, but the movie playing in your mind’s eye as you tell it is the G-rated movie. There is nothing disturbing happening. The alarm is turned off in your brain and you can tell your story without re-experiencing the physical or emotional intensity.
The story becomes a part of your past and stops interfering in the present.
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Effective trauma counseling in Colorado and Texas
You don’t have to be diagnosed with PTSD for this trauma therapy to work!
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) was developed in 2008 by Laney Rosenzweig, LMFT. As a mental health clinician, Laney was trained and proficient in multiple treatment modalities, including EMDR. She quickly appreciated the therapeutic value of eye movements but also recognized the need to modify how they are used and integrated with other techniques. She created treatment protocols that are directive, standardized and easy to apply to different conditions. The genesis of ART involved integrating elements from different therapies in a unique and more effective way.
ART is an elegant therapeutic system that takes the best elements of existing therapies like Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral, Narrative, Exposure, relaxation techniques, and Brief Psycho-dynamic therapy and places them into a directive protocol which utilizes eye movements similar to those found in the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) phase of sleep. ART targets unresolved emotions and experiences which are stored differently and allows the brain to safely and effectively relieve distressing body sensations and restore images of past experiences properly to reduce distress. ART includes the science of memory reconsolidation and provides a re-scripting process called Voluntary Image Replacement (VIR) to assist clients in rapidly moving beyond trauma. Ultimately, this process brings great relief for people suffering from PTSD, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns.
(Rosenzweig, Hernandez, Long, & Street, 2021)
How is Accelerated Resolution Therapy different from EMDR?
EMDR and ART are both based on eye movements and effective with resolving traumatic memories. ART differs from EMDR as it is more directive, structured, and works directly with physical sensations to help you stay more grounded. In fact, the creator of ART is also trained in EMDR.
Research has shown that trauma can be resolved in 1-5 sessions with ART, whereas EMDR research shows that it can take up to 12 sessions.
In fact, the creator of ART was originally trained in EMDR. She noticed gaps with EMDR, such as retraumatization and clients struggling between sessions, and created ART. Many ART clinicians are also trained in EMDR therapy and have made the shift to primarily using ART.
ART is tighter and uses strategies directly focused on the issue at hand. In EMDR the clinician is trained to ask “what comes up now?” after eye movements and will deviate from the original issue. ART works faster than EMDR by keeping the client focused on the issue with clear direction and the use of metaphors. With ART, you don’t have to talk about the details if you don’t want.
I usually describe ART as more of the kid-gloved version of EMDR, it’s more scripted and less exposing than EMDR. I’ve had numerous clients tell me that one session of ART resolved trauma that years of talk therapy couldn’t.
Talking isn’t enough for trauma, we need to rewire your brain.