Accelerated Resolution Therapy
What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy?
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a type of Somatic Therapy. Somatic Therapy broadly seeks to make connections between the mind and body. You experience emotions somatically, whether you realize it or not.
Consider the first time someone broke up with you. How did you feel?
Where did you feel those emotions in your body? Your heart felt broken – literally.
How about the first time you landed a job you wanted – how did you feel?
Maybe you felt a little electric inside.
The heartbreak and the electric feeling are somatic sensations!
Am I broken if I can’t get over the bad feelings?
Absolutely not! When we experience stressful situations, our brain tells our body of a threat,
and we enter fight-or-flight mode –
a state of nervous system dysregulation.
Humans are the only animals that can interrupt the generally automatic process of reregulating the nervous system. The result is that we can get stuck in fight-or-flight mode, which leaves a body memory of the stressful event. It’s as if your body got frozen at a point in time before it could calm down.
What do I do about it now, even years later?
That’s the easy part – you contact me! Accelerated Resolution Therapy (or ART, as it’s fondly referred to) is my go-to somatic therapy intervention. ART quickly reprocesses how these body memories are stored, resulting in feeling better about the situation and your nervous system returning to a state of regulation.
ART is very effective for trauma, anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, grief, phobias, and so much more. Contact me to learn how Accelerated Resolution Therapy can be of value to you!
