Specialties · Plano office and Texas telehealth
A brief, structured trauma therapy for adults working through painful memories and PTSD.
In person or online
Plano office, Texas telehealth
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Overview
Some memories don’t stay in the past. They come back as images, nightmares, or a jolt of panic, and talking about them again and again doesn’t seem to help. Accelerated Resolution Therapy, or ART, is a trauma therapy designed to change how those memories feel.
At Layers Counseling Specialists, ART is offered to adults by our founder, Karla Pineda, LPC, who has advanced ART training. Sessions are available at our Plano office and online anywhere in Texas.
ART was developed in 2008 by Laney Rosenzweig, a licensed marriage and family therapist. It uses sets of gentle, side-to-side eye movements while you briefly bring a memory to mind, similar to other eye movement therapies. The eye movements are meant to help your body stay calm while you hold the memory, so the images and physical feelings can lose their intensity.
What makes ART different is a step called voluntary memory replacement. You keep the facts of what happened, but you choose new, more peaceful images to replace the ones that keep hurting. Many people describe the memory as still there, just no longer painful to think about.
Research, including a randomized controlled trial with military veterans, has found that ART can reduce PTSD symptoms in a small number of sessions. The research is still early, and more studies are needed.
ART is structured and led by you. You stay in control the whole time.
We start by talking through what you’d like to feel different and pick one memory or issue to focus on.
You can keep the details of the memory to yourself. You only need to notice what you see and feel, so ART can be a good fit if talking about trauma feels impossible.
Guided by your therapist, you move through short sets of eye movements while noticing the memory and any tension in your body, until your body settles.
You then choose new images or endings for the scene, and we notice together how the memory feels afterward.
ART can stand on its own or be one part of a broader plan, alongside approaches like exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD and anxiety.
Who it's for
Whether it was one frightening event or something that happened over time, ART can ease the memories that keep pulling you back.
If you’ve spent years talking about what happened and it still hurts the same, ART offers a different way in.
If panic, a phobia, or a fear started after a specific experience, ART may help ease the memory behind it.
For children and teens who have been through trauma, we offer trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) and child trauma therapy.
Why Layers
Karla has completed advanced ART training and uses it alongside her work with OCD and anxiety.
ART is designed to be a brief therapy, and we check in often on how it’s going.
Meet at our Plano office or by secure video from anywhere in Texas.
Who you'll work with
Read about each therapist’s experience and approach to care.
Karla recovered from OCD through exposure and response prevention (ERP) herself, and now helps adults stuck in what-if loops. She also offers Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) for trauma.
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