Lauren Faylor – Accelerated Resolution Therapy

Accelerated Resolution Therapy Supports Maui’s Recovery from 2023 Wildfire Trauma

It’s been a year since the devastating wildfires swept across Maui, Hawaii, on August 8th, 2023. Fueled by dry conditions and strong winds, these fires caused unimaginable destruction and heartbreak. Homes, businesses, and the natural beauty that defines Maui were severely damaged, leaving the island scarred both physically and emotionally. The Impact of the Wildfires […]

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Treating OCD with Accelerated Resolution Therapy

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a challenging mental health condition that affects millions of people around the world. Traditionally, treatments like Exposure Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) have been the main therapies to manage OCD symptoms. These were the methods Dr. Mark Chamberlain had been using in his practice. However, in

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Men’s Mental Health-How can ART Help?

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As June honors Men’s Mental Health Month, the topic of men’s mental health has begun to gain the attention it desperately needs. The issues and statistics surrounding men’s mental health are concerning, with depression and suicide as leading causes of death among men. In the United States alone, six million men suffer from depression annually. Men die by

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What Should You Do After An ART Therapy Session?

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Amazing things are still happening in your brain even after an Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) session! Through ART, your brain rescripts traumatic images so that you leave with a ‘positized’ version of your traumatic memory. The term “positiziation” refers to what ART Developer, Laney Rosenzweig calls the process of transforming a negative memory into a more positive

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Trauma-Informed Psychoeducation in ART

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In her book “Come Passion, The Soulful ART of Healing Trauma,” Colleen Clark, RCSW, highlights the importance of delivering Psychoeducation to clients alongside ART sessions. Psychoeducation in trauma therapy involves explaining the client’s mental diagnosis and treatment choices to both the client and their family, helping them understand and cope with the illness by providing

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The Mind-Body Connection: Releasing Trauma from the Body

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If you’ve ever felt butterflies in your stomach over an upcoming event, you’re well aware of the mind-body connection and how emotions can appear in different parts of the body. Our bodies can carry the weight of our memories, emotions, and trauma. The idea of stored emotions manifesting physically in our systems is not a

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Is it yours? How You May Be Affected by Intergenerational Trauma

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It can be hard to imagine that something that happened to our great-grandparents or even further back could still impact us today. Generational trauma, the notion that events from the past could stretch across generations and influence us today seems almost unbelievable. Understanding and breaking the cycle of generational trauma is complex and must be

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Does trauma affect ADHD?

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Often, the symptoms of trauma and ADHD are so similar they can be mistaken for each other. Their comparable symptoms often make it difficult to diagnose the source. . With so much overlap, it begs the question: Does trauma contribute to ADHD? ADHD diagnoses have been on the rise throughout the past few years. Millions

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The Life-Saving Impact of ART®: Abby’s Extraordinary Journey

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The impact of Accelerated Resolution Therapy can be life-saving. Beyond providing relief for various life-altering mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, OCD, grief, and PTSD, ART has demonstrated incredible efficacy in emergency situations, such as suicidal intent. It frequently serves as a final recourse for clients who have exhausted numerous other techniques in their pursuit

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Do you have a hard time setting boundaries?

Accelerated Resolution Therapy, boundary setting, emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, mental health, physical boundaries, preventing burnout, saying no, self esteem, setting boundaries, stress reduction

As we approach the holidays, you may feel several emotions: warm and happy, excited, or maybe you feel anxious and even a little bit blue. The holidays involve seeing friends and family we may not have seen all year, and for some, this can be anxiety-producing and outright triggering. If this is true for you,

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