Accelerated Resolution Therapy
What is ART?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a fast and effective therapy that helps people process and heal from trauma (PTSD and CPTSD), anxiety, and other emotional challenges. ART is like a super-charged adaption of EMDR for those who are familiar with it. ART like EMDR uses eye movements and visualization techniques, ART doesn’t remove the facts of the event, but removes the distress you feel about the event. ART helps the brain rewire distressing memories and reducing their emotional impact. Many people feel relief in just a few sessions—without needing to talk about painful details. Despite the name, ART has nothing to do with creative art.
What can I expect from the ART sessions
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ART uses eye movements (very calming) and somatic processing (body sensations) to process and clear the pain associated with traumatic events. It doesn’t remove the facts of the event but eliminates the distress you feel about the event.
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FIRST SESSION (60 mins) - We do a pre-screening and prepare you for the processing session. In this session we do not process any trauma, know you will not have to go into details of specific events.
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PROCESSING SESSIONS (80-90 mins) - It is recommended you clear your schedule for a few hours afterwards as ART can fatigue your brain and body. You don’t have to go into detail of your trauma in these sessions. In fact it is possible to do ART without talking about your trauma.
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PRICING - The intake session is $170. Processing sessions are $220. Processing trauma usually occurs in 1-3 session, which is much quicker when compared to traditional talk therapy.
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TO BOOK - call or text me on 0468 466 445, you can also email me at gun@holistictherapycounselling.com.au to book an appointment
More about ART - Keep the knowledge, lose the pain
With ART, the process is very straightforward. Safely, with the therapist’s reassuring presence, you undergo sets of eye movements while silently recalling the traumatic scene. This phase of the ART therapy usually lasts from 30 seconds to about 10 minutes.
Physical and emotional reactions are processed through these sets of relaxing eye movements. This recall causes the window of opportunity to makeyou selected favourable changes to the traumatic memory to open. Under the guidance of the ART-trained therapist, you are then empowered with the ability to make any changes you want to the images or other sensory experiences that come up with this memory. After engaging in this process for a relatively short amount of time, (1-5 sessions), positive long-lasting changes are made. While you retain the ability to recall the facts of the incident(s), they no longer experience the adverse effects that were previously associated with its recall. That is why we say, “Keep the Knowledge, Lose the Pain.”
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ART & Research
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.
ART is firmly grounded in techniques used in well-established evidence-based treatments, including exposure through visualization, visualized in-vivo exposure, relaxation/stress inoculation facilitated by eye movements, re-scripting of negative images, Gestalt techniques, and others.
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