Accelerated Resolution Therapy In Calgary

What is Accelerated Resolution Therapy?

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process and resolve distressing emotions, memories, and trauma quickly.

ART uses techniques like guided visualization and eye movements to reprocess traumatic or upsetting memories, helping individuals change their emotional responses to those experiences. In practice, ART involves the therapist guiding you through a series of visualizations and using eye movements to help reframe memories, reducing their emotional intensity.

What Issues Can Expressive Art Therapy Help With?

  • Trauma

  • Phobias

  • PTSD

  • Stress

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Grief and Loss

  • Life Transitions

  • Low Self-Esteem and Negative Self-Beliefs

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Identity and Self Discovery

Too Long, Didn’t Read:

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) helps process trauma and emotional issues quickly using guided visualization and eye movements to reduce their emotional impact. It’s effective for trauma, anxiety, and depression, offering relief in just a few sessions.

Frequently Asked Questions:

  • ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) are both trauma therapies that use eye movements to support healing, but they differ in structure and focus.

    EMDR helps clients process and desensitize distressing memories over time, often exploring core beliefs and themes connected to the trauma. The goal is to reduce the emotional intensity of the memory without changing the details of the event.

    In contrast, ART is more structured and directive, guiding clients to replace distressing images with more neutral or positive ones through visualization, often without needing to verbally share details of the trauma.

  • Unlike talk therapy, ART doesn’t require you to talk in detail about what happened. Instead, it focuses on how the distressing memory is stored in your brain and body, and helps you “reimagine” it in a way that feels calmer and safer.

  • No, you won’t lose the memory, but the emotional and physical distress tied to it will often fade.

Our Accelerated Resolution Therapists:

  • Melissa Fonseka, Registered Psychologist

    Melissa Fonseka, Registered Psychologist

    Servicing: Alberta

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