Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)

03/21/2026

Registration is now open for the IS-ART Virtual Conference!
Registration now open!
Our annual conference brings together notable presenters, trainers, clients, and specialists in the use of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). This year’s event is open to all licensed mental health practitioners and providers working with trauma and related issues.

The practical information shared during this conference is designed to enhance and elevate your clinical practice

Conference Details:
April 17th & 18th, 2026
Virtual | 9:45 AM – 4:00 PM EST

IS-ART Members – FREE
Non-Members – $75
Full attendance provides 10 CE credits (5 each day).
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Our annual conference is a compilation of notable presenters, trainers, clients and specialists in the use of the ART of Accelerated Resolution Therapy – this year’s event is open to ALL licensed mental health practitioners and providers dealing with trauma and related issues. The information pr...

03/18/2026

“Too good to be true.”
That’s the phrase ART Therapists hear over and over.
Clients shake their heads.
They say, “What just happened?”
They try to pull the painful image back up… and they can’t.
They still know what happened.
They can describe it.
But the emotional sting is gone.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is evidence-based and works by changing the images associated with distressing memories so the body no longer reacts the same way.
Often in 1–5 sessions.
Many of the people who find ART have:
• Been in therapy for years
• Tried multiple approaches
• Learned the coping tools
• Understood the insight
But the charge was still there.
ART works at the level where trauma is stored, in images, sensations, and the nervous system. Not just in the story.
We often hear:
“I can’t believe that worked.”
“I can’t see it anymore.”
“It feels different.”
“It’s gone.”
That disbelief is common after ART sessions.
Laney Rosenzweig even titled her book Too Good to Be True because that’s what clients kept saying after sessions.
Fast doesn’t mean superficial. Relief doesn’t mean forgetting the story.
The brain updates how it responds. Sometimes that shift is life changing.
Find an ART trained therapist near you.
www.ARTworksnow.com

03/16/2026

In any therapy session, the most important first step is helping your body feel calmer and safer.
When distress stays high, it’s hard for real change to take place because the nervous system is still focused on protection.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works with this by using guided eye movements in specific, carefully timed sets that are designed to help the body relax. Research shows that these eye movements can slow the stress response, ease physical tension, and make difficult memories feel less intense and less overwhelming. As the body calms, the brain often becomes more open to processing experiences in a new way—without forcing or reliving every detail—so healing can happen with more ease.

Find out more at www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com

03/11/2026

The brain often responds to vivid imagined experiences in ways that closely resemble real ones. When an event is imagined or remembered, brain regions involved in perception and emotion—such as the visual cortex, limbic system, and amygdala—can become active even though nothing is happening in the external environment. These areas do not rely on logic or timelines. They respond to sensory detail and emotional intensity, not to whether something is occurring now or happened years ago.
Because of this, the brain can react to imagined or recalled experiences as if they are real. In the context of trauma or chronic stress, this can lead to physical responses like a racing heart, muscle tension, nausea, or panic, even when there is conscious awareness that the present moment is safe. The prefrontal cortex, which helps with reasoning and perspective, does not always override these signals under high emotional load.
At the same time, this same neural mechanism creates opportunities for healing. If imagined experiences can activate threat responses, they can also be used to activate safety, regulation, and new emotional associations.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works within this system. By combining guided imagery, metaphors, and bilateral eye movements, ART engages both emotional and regulatory brain networks. This process can help the nervous system experience a calmer bodily response while the factual memory remains intact. The event is still remembered, but the body no longer reacts as if it is happening in the present.
To find an ART-trained therapist, visit
www.ARTworksnow.com

03/07/2026

New Insights on Trauma, Somatic Symptoms, and Dissociation
A recent study has explored the relationship between trauma, physical (somatic) symptoms, and dissociation. The research revealed that seven common physical symptoms are strongly linked to dissociation, where the mind blocks trauma out of awareness.
This is significant because it confirms that dissociating from trauma affects not only your mental health but also your physical well-being. If you're experiencing unexplained physical symptoms and your doctor can't find a cause, unresolved trauma might be at the root of your unexplained symptoms.

What Happens When You Store Trauma in the Body?
Trauma and emotions can get trapped in your body through dissociation and other reasons, settling in your muscles, nerves, and tissues. When you go through a traumatic event, your mind and body respond together. But sometimes, they don’t fully sync up afterward. This disconnect can lead to lingering emotions, which appear as physical symptoms that don't seem to have a clear cause.

The Ripple Effect of Chronic Stress
Stress is meant to be a short-term reaction, but when it becomes chronic, it overwhelms your system. This constant flood of stress hormones spreads throughout your body, leading to symptoms like irregular heartbeats, brain fog, muscle tension, and more. Your entire physical health can suffer from unresolved, ongoing stress.

How ART Helps
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) focuses on identifying and addressing these stored emotions and physical sensations. Through eye movements, ART helps desensitize and reprocess these emotions in a way that positively reshapes how they are stored in the body. This process doesn’t just target the rational mind, but goes much deeper; offering a holistic, long-lasting impact.
As ART works on these deep-rooted emotions, you’ll not only notice changes in the traumatic images but also experience relief from the physical symptoms tied to those memories.

Find an ART trained therapist near you visit
www.acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com

PMID: 34635928

03/04/2026

𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙨

What if your mental health struggles aren’t disorders, but survival responses to unresolved trauma?

When the nervous system is overwhelmed, it adapts in ways that look like mental illness—but these symptoms are often coping mechanisms, not lifelong conditions.

✅ The symptoms won’t move until the trauma does.

Treating symptoms alone is like hacking at a tree’s branches—real healing happens when you treat the root.

Could Trauma Be the Root Cause?
🔹 Depression – A freeze response where the body shuts down to survive.
➡️ Healing trauma restores energy and emotional connection.

🔹 Anxiety – A hypervigilant nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight.
➡️ Processing trauma teaches the brain it’s safe to relax.

🔹 OCD – An unconscious attempt to regain control after chaos.
➡️ Treating trauma reduces the need for compulsions.

🔹 Eating Disorders – Coping mechanisms for emotional pain or control.
➡️ Resolving trauma improves food relationships.

🔹 Substance Use – A way to self-medicate trauma responses.
➡️ Healing the nervous system reduces cravings.

Why Traditional Therapy Falls Short
Most methods like CBT or talk therapy focus on logic, but trauma lives in the body, not the rational mind.

🔄 This is why people spend years in therapy without lasting relief.

ART Resolves Trauma Faster
🚀 Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works with the nervous system to reprocess trauma quickly.

✅ Symptoms often resolve in just 1-5 sessions.
✅ The brain releases emotional charge so memories lose their grip.
✅ No more years of "managing" symptoms.

If you heal the root of trauma, many symptoms will often fade.

Find an ART trained therapist near you:
www.ARTworksnow.com

03/02/2026

One of the most painful parts of trauma isn’t just what happened—it’s what stops working afterward.
Many people notice a disconnect between what they understand logically and what they feel emotionally.
You might know something is over, safe, or no longer a threat—yet your body still reacts.
Or the opposite happens: emotions feel flat or numb, words are hard to find, and it’s difficult to articulate what you’re feeling at all.
Executive functioning can suffer.
Focus, planning, decision-making, and emotional clarity become harder—not because you’re broken, but because your nervous system is stuck in survival mode.
Understanding brain activity helps explain trauma’s effects: it shifts activity toward the amygdala, the threat detector, while reducing access to the reasoning part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex.
Trauma shifts activity toward the amygdala, the threat detection system, while the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain responsible for reasoning, language, planning, and perspective—becomes less accessible. At the same time, emotional and sensory information may feel overwhelming, fragmented, or shut down altogether.
The result is a system that isn’t integrated—thinking, feeling, and sensing aren’t working together.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is designed to address this.
ART uses bilateral eye movements to help calm the brain’s threat response while working with the images linked to distressing experiences. As arousal decreases, the prefrontal cortex can re-engage while emotional and sensory information is being processed.
Instead of logic and emotion operating separately, the brain begins processing as a whole again.
Many people report clearer thinking, better emotional access, reduced triggers, and a sense that things finally feel more coherent and tolerable.

ART supports communication between the brain and body, helping the nervous system function more normally again.
Find an ART-trained therapist near you www. ARTworksnow.com

02/26/2026

If you're interested in becoming an ART-trained practitioner or if you'd like to go deeper into your ART practice, sign up for one of our trainings!

𝘼𝙍𝙏 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) takes the best of well-known therapies, including Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioral, Exposure (imaginal, in-vivo), relaxation techniques, and Brief Psycho-dynamic therapy, and combines with soothing bilateral eye movements. ART utilizes a re-scripting process called Voluntary Image Replacement (VIR) to assist clients in replacing negative images with positive ones.

𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

Participants will learn how to use advanced ART scripts and interventions to address patterns such as anticipatory fear, recurring stressors, performance-related concerns, attention and focus challenges, and layered clinical targets. Emphasis is placed on therapist judgment, timing, and responsiveness, including how to adjust ART interventions based on client presentation and session flow while remaining aligned with ART principles.

𝗦𝗔𝗙-𝗧 - 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲
SĀF-T focuses on moving sensations in the body. Motivation of the participant is key to its success. This technique is designed to produce a calming effect and can be safely used with adults and children. The goal is to alleviate negative sensations associated with anxiety, physical discomfort and relief of some pain symptoms. SĀF-T is not therapy, although it utilizes eye movements similar to those used during a therapy session. SĀF-T is appropriate for anyone who would benefit from improved stress management.

To learn more about ART and the types of training available near you, visit https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/types-of-training-available/ to find out more about available trainings.

02/25/2026

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is often misunderstood. ARFID isn’t about body image or weight control. It’s often about fear, safety, and the body’s learned response to food. For many children and teens, eating can feel genuinely dangerous due to past choking incidents, gastrointestinal pain, sensory sensitivities, or medical trauma. Over time, the nervous system begins to associate unfamiliar or even previously safe foods with threat, leading to intense anxiety, avoidance, low weight, and reliance on medical interventions like feeding tubes. Families often feel stuck between wanting their child to eat and knowing that fear—not stubbornness—is driving the behavior.
Eating Disorder Awareness Week exists to bring visibility to all eating disorders, including those that don’t fit common stereotypes. It’s a time to reduce stigma, increase understanding, and highlight that every body deserves compassion, appropriate care, and access to supportive treatment.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) can help by addressing the distress stored in the nervous system. Using guided imagery and structured eye movements, ART works to calm the body’s stress response while reprocessing experiences linked to fear, such as choking or pain. Many clients report that as their body feels safer, emotions around food soften, confidence increases, and new possibilities begin to feel manageable. The facts of what happened remain but the fear no longer has to run the show. For individuals with ARFID, this can open the door to greater curiosity around food, reduced anxiety, and progress toward nourishment in a way that feels safer and more supportive.

Find an ART trained therapist near you www.ARTworksnow.com

Special thanks to https://www.facebook.com/beinspiredcc

02/23/2026

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 23 – March 1, 2026
We live in a society that profits from insecurity; healing from an eating disorder can feel very challenging. You’re surrounded by diet culture, unrealistic beauty standards, and constant messages about what your body should look like or how it should eat.
Eating disorders don’t look one way.
They can include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID (Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), OSFED (Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder), and other patterns that don’t always fit labels. Some involve restriction. Others involve loss of control. Many involve shame, fear, secrecy, or feeling disconnected from your body altogether.
For many people, eating disorders aren’t about food.
They’re about safety, control, emotion regulation, and coping with experiences the nervous system hasn’t fully processed.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) can help by addressing the underlying trauma, emotions, and internal images that keep these patterns in place. It addresses the root for the distress. Rather than focusing only on behavior or insight, ART works with how the brain and body store distressing experiences. Many clients report that as the emotional charge softens, their relationship with food and their body can begin to shift as well.
This week is about awareness, but also compassion.
Every body belongs.
Every eating disorder deserves to be taken seriously.
And healing doesn’t have to start with shame.

How ART Can Help:
• Supports nervous system regulation
ART uses bilateral eye movements to help calm the stress response, which may reduce emotional and physiological triggers tied to eating behaviors.
• Changes the images linked to distressing experiences
ART focuses on the images associated with painful memories. As those images change, many clients notice their beliefs and reactions begin to shift naturally.
• Addresses body image and self-worth at a deeper level
ART can help address the images and sensations connected to shame, self-criticism, or negative body perceptions, allowing for more neutrality or self-acceptance over time.
• Reduces the trauma–food connection
By reprocessing experiences linked to fear, control, or emotional pain, ART can help the body stop reacting as if past distress is still happening.
• Eases guilt and shame held in the body
Many people report feeling less weighed down by self-blame, making it easier to move forward without constant self-punishment.
As the nervous system becomes more flexible, some people find they rely less on coping patterns that once felt necessary but are no longer serving them.
Eating disorders are not your fault, your mind and body were doing its best to protect you.
These patterns developed for a reason.
And healing is possible.

To learn more or find an ART-trained therapist, visit:
www.ARTworksnow.com

02/18/2026

Some forms of talk therapy can leave people circling the same story again and again. Clients may replay painful experiences, hoping that more detail, more analysis, or more insight will finally create change. While repetition can bring temporary relief for some, for others it can keep traumatic memories emotionally charged or even intensify distress. What’s often needed isn’t more time inside the story—but a different way of experiencing it.

One of the most powerful parts of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is how quickly it helps clients shift perspective.
In ART, clinicians don’t have to work as hard to talk someone into a new viewpoint. The bilateral eye movements help the brain do it naturally. As old images lose their emotional charge and new, positive images take their place, clients often say things like:
“I never thought about it that way before.”
“I never looked at it that way.”
That moment where a new perspective is created is what creates movement.
From a scientific standpoint, perspective changes are tied to the brain’s ability to integrate information across regions involved in emotion, memory, and reasoning. When the nervous system is calm enough and the imagery tied to a memory shifts, the brain can reorganize how that memory is stored. This opens space for new meaning, new context, and new behavioral choices.
This is why ART can feel so different. The eye movements support the brain’s natural capacity to reconsolidate traumatic memories so they feel positive or neutral, and clients often reach new perspectives in a fraction of the time it might take in traditional talk therapy. Instead of getting stuck in the loop, they move forward with clarity.
If you’ve felt trapped telling the same story without getting the shift you need, ART may help you find a new perspective.
www.ARTworksnow.com

02/16/2026

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆 (𝗔𝗥𝗧)?
ART is an innovative tool that has been proven to resolve trauma, depression, addiction and other mental health issues in only a few sessions*. (*USF research states most issues are resolved in between 1- 5 sessions with an average of 3 session to Eliminate PTSD.) ART is used by thousands of practitioners in both private practice as well as a long list of clinics that include:

· Numerous military facilities: Walter Reed Medical Center, Fort Belvoir, Fort Bragg, Tripler Army Medical Center, Eglin AFB to just name a few
· Lone Survivor Foundation
· Warrior Wellness
· Banyan Treatment Centers
· Betty Ford
· Yale University School of Nursing
· Connecticut Department of Mental Health, DMHAS
· Nuway Counseling Center
· Alberta Health Services
You can gather more information by viewing a short, TEDx video featuring ART developer, Laney Rosenzweig.

Would you like to hear more about what other clinicians like you have learned that can help to expand your practice? Then please accept our invitation as your opportunity to attend an exclusive, 90 minute FREE online presentation by ART developer Laney Rosenzweig, LMFT.

Register here: https://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/reg/icat.php?course=Intro&fbclid=IwAR2zwziD1fr0ENBhytdLHCrtlFEC7boYH_sp88ZO_dNm3qz0G2_0tmBn024 or visit www.ARTworksnow.com to learn more about ART