You’re so much more than what happened to you.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy® (ART)*
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Something is keeping you from being able to move forward and enjoy your life.
You’re out walking the dog and you hear kids screaming. Logically, you know they’re just playing tag at the bus stop, but your body still breaks into a cold sweat. Maybe you smell a particular cologne on someone you pass on the street or hear a certain song in a TV commercial. Without warning, a perfectly average day becomes a replay of a moment you can’t seem to leave in the past.
Most days, you’re functioning—people rely on you to have it together—but just barely. You may take time off work to avoid a trigger, have frequent nightmares, or shut down when emotions run high. When you’re with your family, you’re not really there, because your mind is so distracted, replaying thoughts, conversations, or images—putting you on edge.
You know something happened to you at some point to cause you to react this way to some situations, and you know exactly what those situations are. You may have even talked about it in therapy before. But knowing hasn’t brought you relief.
You might be here because you…
Have a specific trigger that gets in the way of living your life fully, and you’re ready to put all this behind you.
Just experienced a life change—motherhood, a new career, a loss—that stirred up old memories you thought you’d left behind.
Replay conversations long after they happened, second-guess yourself and your actions, and worry about how others perceive you.
Know why you react to certain things the way you do, but you can’t stop the reaction from happening anyway—it feels out of your control.
Want to feel more like yourself and be able to trust what you know, feel, and need, without second-guessing your reality.
Don’t want to forget what happened, but want it to stop controlling you.
You’ve already told your story, and it didn’t help you feel better.
Let’s try something different.
How therapy works
Accelerated Resolution Therapy helps your brain remove negative associations with a particular trigger, situation, or event.
Your mind and body are wired to keep you safe, and that's a good thing. It's why they sound the alarm when you encounter something that can cause you harm.
But sometimes an experience you have gets stuck and doesn’t process fully. In that case, the alarm never gets the all-clear on the situation. When that happens, it can start going off in ordinary moments that aren't dangerous. You may even know you’re safe, but your body responds as if there’s danger.
ART uses guided eye movements and imagery to help your body finally register that the threat has passed. You keep the memory and knowledge of what happened, but how it lives in your body changes.
In sessions, we will…
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A lot of the people I work with are used to holding everything together and figuring things out on their own before asking for help. You don't need to do that here. You don't have to arrive with the "right" memory picked out or a clear sense of how everything connects. We'll talk about what's been affecting you and figure out together where it makes the most sense to start. Before we begin, I'll walk you through what to expect and show you what the guided eye movements look like so you feel comfortable.
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Many of the clients who come to me for this work have already spent time in therapy retelling painful experiences without feeling any better about them. ART works differently. You can share what feels important, and the rest stays private in your own mind. Deep processing happens without you needing to narrate every part of it out loud. You're fully awake and aware throughout, and you can pause or ask questions at any point.
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If you're someone who's used to overriding what your body is telling you and powering through, this might feel different. Accelerated Resolution Therapy follows a structured protocol, but I still approach it with the same warmth and collaboration I would for any therapy session. During the process, I pay attention to how you're responding and making room for questions, pauses, or breaks when needed. If we need to slow down or stay with one focus area a little longer, I’d rather us do that than rush anything.
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You might be used to walking out of hard moments and switching right back into taking care of everyone else. Here, I build in time at the end for you to notice how you're feeling and come back to yourself before you head into the rest of your day. There's no homework asking you to revisit what we worked on. ART doesn’t typically cause lasting emotional effects, but my encouragement is to still give yourself some breathing room and “me time” after a session.
ART is designed to be focused and efficient, but it’s important to me that we have unhurried time to reach the level of depth that’s most effective. The traditional therapy hour doesn't always allow for that. Plus, I don’t want you to feel like you need to rush to fit your healing into a specific timeframe.
An intensive gives you protected time to do the work and to settle afterward before you walk back into everyday life.
I offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy exclusively as an intensive service.
Intensive options…
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For a specific memory or experience you want to work through. This format gives us enough time to prepare, do the work, and close the session without feeling rushed.
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For two to three areas of focus. We take planned breaks between each one so you can rest and step away from the focused work before we continue. We may address multiple areas if there's enough time and you feel ready.
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For concerns that show up in your daily life, like grief, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, or performance anxiety. This format gives us room to work through related layers over time with space to integrate between sessions.
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If you're not sure which format fits what you're working through, we'll talk about it during your consultation and figure out what makes the most sense together.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy can help you…
Feel free to be fully present in your own life instead of constantly being pulled back into the past.
Trust yourself enough to make decisions based on what you need and want, rather than fear, guilt, or self-doubt.
Feel safe enough to be yourself, set boundaries, speak honestly, and let other people have their own reactions.
Experience relationships based on the person in front of you, rather than unconsciously responding to people through the lens of what happened before.
Stop organizing your life around avoiding pain and start making choices based on what actually matters to you.
Feel like your future belongs to you again, rather than feeling like your past is deciding what is possible.
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Both use guided eye movements to help process distressing experiences, and people sometimes assume they're the same thing. The key difference is that ART doesn’t require you to talk about or relive your experiences. It uses a specific protocol to help you replace the negative images connected to a memory with images of your choosing. Some of my clients who have done EMDR describe ART as feeling gentler and less overwhelming.
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Talk therapy is built around insight. You talk through what happened, make connections, and build understanding over time. And that work has real value. But a lot of the people I see come in saying some version of "I already know why I do this. I still can't stop the reaction." That gap between what you understand in your mind and what your body keeps doing is exactly where ART works. It uses guided eye movements and imagery to help your nervous system process the experience at a level that talking alone doesn't always reach.
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ART can be helpful for a wide range of concerns. Some people come in with a specific memory, a relationship wound, a betrayal, a loss, or a medical experience that still feels emotionally and physically charged. Others are dealing with anxiety, grief, intrusive thoughts, performance anxiety, or codependency patterns that affect their daily life.
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ART isn't the right fit for everyone, and I screen for that before we begin. This intensive is not designed for someone currently experiencing a mental health crisis or who needs a higher level of support. It's also not appropriate if you're dealing with active substance dependence or anything that would make it difficult to remain present and regulated during the session. Participation needs to be voluntary, so if you're doing this because someone else wants you to, that's something we'd want to talk about. And if you're looking for a guaranteed cure or expecting every trigger to be resolved in a single session, I want to be upfront that I can't promise that.
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I'm trained and certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy and have completed the clinical requirements to offer it as a standalone service. ART is one of several specialized trainings I've pursued because I wanted to be able to offer my clients something that works with the body, not just the mind. If you have questions about my training background, I'm happy to talk more about it during your consultation.
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ART does not erase your memory or remove any factual information about what happened. What it does is help change how that memory is stored, so you can think about it without the same emotional or physical intensity. You keep everything you know and everything you learned from the experience. What changes is how it feels in your body when it comes up. I often describe this to clients as keeping the knowledge and losing the pain.
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I offer ART exclusively as an intensive service because this work needs enough room to feel complete. The traditional therapy hour doesn't always allow for that, and I don't want to reach something meaningful and then have to stop because our time is up.
I offer a single focus session (up to 80 minutes), an extended intensive (4.5 hours with built-in breaks), a 4-session package for concerns that affect your daily life, and custom options depending on your needs.
During your consultation, we'll figure out which format makes the most sense for what you're working through.
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It depends on what we're working with. For a specific memory or experience, meaningful processing often happens within one to three sessions. Some people notice a difference during the session itself. Others recognize it later, when they find themselves in a situation that used to bring up the old reaction and it just doesn't hit the same way. I don't guarantee a specific outcome or timeline, because everyone responds differently. What I can tell you is that ART is designed to be focused and efficient, and most of my clients feel a noticeable difference after their first intensive.
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No. ART is not hypnosis. You're fully awake, aware, and actively involved the whole time. You can pause, ask me questions, or let me know what you need at any point during the session. You're always in control of the process.