"To live in the body of a survivor is to never be able to leave the scene of a crime. I cannot ignore the fact that I live here." ~ Blythe Baird

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a unique approach to psychotherapy. The ART therapist guides the client to replace negative images in the mind with positive images of the client’s choosing. These negative images are the links to past experiences that cause them to experience negative symptoms in the present. Once the negative images have been replaced by positive ones, the triggers will be gone.
ART 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.
Part of what makes ART so unique is that the client does not need to talk about the details of past traumatic experiences. This is because the ART therapist is a helpful guide while the client is fully in control of the process. Although some traumatic experiences such as rape, combat or loss of a loved one can be very painful to visualize, the client is able to make positive changes of their choosing early on in the session, which allows them to successfully move past that negative point in the memory that was keeping them stuck in negative triggers and sensations. ART sessions are calming for the client and very often joyful, especially at the end, for both the client and the therapist (RCRR, 2016).

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