Accelerated Resolution Therapy - Orlando, Florida

Alice O.

I’ve been seeing more and more practitioners learning and facilitating ART with the utmost best of intentions. I think it’s time I speak up about the discrimination I faced from the creator (Laney Rosenzweig) and her trainer (Colleen Clark).

In order to understand the discrimination it is important to understand my disability. I am visually impaired. A lot of things, such as tracking movement for extended periods of time are extremely painful for me. I’m sure you are wondering why I would enroll in training where eye movements were required…

In the spring of 2022, I enrolled in both EMDR and ART training and took them both. When I took EMDR, they were SO accommodating, accepting, compassionate and helpful. They told me I could use tapping with no problem to achieve bilateral stimulation. I was thrilled. I felt seen, heard and accommodated. I knew for sure that I would be using EMDR in my practice.

I was caught by surprise when I verbally asked for similar accommodations when I arrived at my ART training. I explained to Colleen my disability and the pain that eye movements caused. She then proceeded to tell me that ART required eye movements and that regardless of any disability no other stimulation was welcome in the practice of ART. I politely challenged this and so Colleen went to the founder of ART herself, Laney and asked her if accommodations could be made. Laney said no. It’s eye movements or no ART. It didn’t matter to them that the therapy caused me actual pain. It was their way or the highway. They made me feel like I, and other people like me, didn’t belong in their special little therapy club.

I’ve been angry about this for a year and a half. I’m tired of staying quiet so as to seem tactful.

Ultimately it’s your choice how you practice. I can’t tell you to stop using ART, but hell I’m asking you to consider it.

If you’re in a debate between EMDR and ART, please choose EMDR. Please choose the people and the creator (Francine Shapiro) who explicitly say “if eye movements cause pain, anxiety or discomfort, switch to an alternate form of stimulation”.

If culturally responsive and socially just practice is important to you, please think of me the next time you promote ART.

Thank you for listening.

Joelle H.

I left this training feeling very well prepared to provide ART to my clients. The training was interesting, informative, and interactive. I liked the variety of videos, handouts, resources, and practicing the techniques to be able to understand it better. My trainer was very helpful, relaxed, and knowledgeable. It was very cool to get to speak personally with the founder of the therapy. I recommend this training to all my clinical friends and friends seeking therapy for themselves!

Lisa W.

The training for ART has been phenomenal! Being able to use this model in my counseling has increased my ability to bring healing to many more who were living in the results of past traumas. I prayed for a quicker model to help clients, for years. With ART I have seen quick resolve of traumas, 1-3 sessions. Thank you God!! Rather than the person having to return to me and others for life to "keep" healing. I highly suggest this model of therapy.

Michelle C.

I am a therapist who has benefited personally from ART, as well as using it in my practice. I've been amazed at ART's effectiveness for my clients who have struggled with concerns like trauma, panic attacks, complicated grief, and depression for years - and have experienced a true lessening of their symptoms within several sessions. A very powerful therapeutic approach!

Marie F.

Excellent training! Laney Rosenzweig and staff members are wonderful, caring professional people. Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a life changing treatment. As a mental health professional, I love ART and use this in my private practice with great success.

Laura S.

Laney was a wonderful instructor. Passionate about the service we deliver to heal our patients in the briefest amount of time with the most effective therapies. I am very honored to be a master ART clinician and offer this outstanding therapy to our veterans with PTSD.

Judy T. M.

Wonderful training. I felt well equipped after the Level One training to implement the technique in my practice and am having good results with it. It is a very effective and creative method that is easy to learn. I appreciate how my patients generally feel uplifted and optimistic after a session, though we have processed difficult material together. I plan to take the next level of training when I have completed the prerequisites.

Mark W.

I have been doing the the work of healing in many ways for many years! This is the most powerful modality for resolving complex trauma and adverse childhood events (ACE). I experienced profoundly during my training with something 'I thought didn't bother me' but I knew as a therapist if a client had mentioned it to me I'd want to explore it. 1 session, image gone, and my long time nagging anxiety too! Also nearly 40 clients in everyone of them has experienced noticeable change, and some were eye watering....