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Accelerated Resolution Therapy

A Scientific Approach

to Emotional Healing

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a brief, evidence-based therapy that uses eye movements and guided visualization to help clients quickly process and resolve distressing memories, emotions, and physical sensations.

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Accelerated Resolution Therapy

  • Enhances Awareness of Strengths & Problem-Solving Abilities.
  • Reconsolidates & Reprograms Distressing Memories.
  • Significantly Decreases Strong Emotional & Physical Responses to Distressing Memories.
  • Allows for Thoughts & Emotions to Change Naturally and Enables Post-Traumatic Resilience.
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If you are struggling with any of the following, Accelerated Resolution Therapy can help:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Phobias
  • Panic Attacks
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Addictions/ Substance Abuse
  • Performance Anxiety
  • Family Issues
  • Victimization/Poor Self Image
  • Victimization/Sexual Abuse
  • Relationship Issues/Infidelity
  • Codependency
  • Grief
  • Job-Related Stress
  • Pain Management
  • Memory Enhancement
  • Dyslexia
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How Accelerated Resolution Therapy Works

Our brains have a natural ability called neuroplasticity, which allows them to change and adapt by forming new connections between brain cells. This means the brain can reorganize itself, learn new skills, and even recover from injuries by creating new pathways.

Accelerated Resolution Therapy uses neuroplasticity to help the brain process and heal from traumatic memories by guiding it to create new, healthier connections.

In simple terms, Accelerated Resolution Therapy helps you take control of your mind, allowing you to revisit and manage difficult memories with confidence and strength.

  • Comfort and Safety: The therapist will ensure you feel comfortable and safe. They’ll explain the process, answer any questions, and discuss what you hope to achieve.
  • Setting Goals: You’ll identify a specific problem or traumatic memory you want to address.
  • Guided Eye Movements: The therapist will guide you through a series of rapid eye movements while you think about the distressing memory. This mechanism allows reintegration of traumatic memories. This technique is thought to mimic the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep phase, during which memory consolidation and emotional processing occur.
  • Voluntary Image Replacement: While engaging in eye movements, you’ll be guided as you visualize the distressing memory and then imagine it changing in a way that feels neutral or even positive. A process called Voluntary Image Replacement is used which allows Cognitive Restructuring. Which basically means to reframe negative beliefs and perceptions associated with traumatic memories. 
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By challenging maladaptive thought patterns and replacing them with more adaptive ones, ART helps individuals develop a healthier perspective on their past experiences and their impact on their present lives. This results in a decrease or complete resolution of associated symptoms and an overall sense of empowerment, growth, resilience, and emotional healing.
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  • Rewiring Memories: ART involves visualizing distressing memories while engaging in specific eye movements. This process helps the brain reprocess these memories, changing how they are stored and reducing their emotional impact. This is a direct application of neuroplasticity, as it involves forming new, less distressing neural connections related to the memory.
  • Creating New Associations: Through ART, the brain can form new associations with previously traumatic memories. Instead of being overwhelmed by negative emotions, the person can create a more neutral or positive narrative. This again showcases neuroplasticity, as the brain adapts and changes its neural pathways to alter the emotional response.
  • Strengthening Positive Pathways: By repeatedly practicing these techniques, ART strengthens new, healthier neural pathways. This means that over time, the brain becomes more efficient at responding to previously triggering memories in a calm and controlled manner, demonstrating the brain’s ability to change and adapt through neuroplasticity.
Upon the completion of ART Sessions, people typically feel empowered, and notice a decrease in problematic symptoms and distressing responses.

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We would be happy to help you decide if ART is the right approach for you.

Call/Text: (845) 547-0479
Email: [email protected]

BIO

Cameryn (Cam) received her Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marist College. Prior to joining Nourish Your Mind, she worked in private practice, primarily serving children, teens, and their families. During this time, she developed a passion for helping clients navigate their unique challenges through the transformative power of play and expressive arts therapy. Cam believes that every individual deserves a safe, nurturing space where they can authentically express themselves. She is dedicated to empowering her clients by identifying and utilizing their inherent strengths to help them achieve their personal goals.

In her therapeutic approach, Cam integrates a holistic wellness model with strengths- and mindfulness-based methods. She employs a variety of evidence-based techniques, including DBT and Nondirective Play Therapy, and she recognizes the importance of tailoring interventions to meet the specific needs of each individual and family.

When she’s not in the office, Cam enjoys reading, traveling, weight-lifting, and immersing herself in music and films. She also values spending quality time with friends, family, and her cats.

  • Licensed Mental Health Counselor
  • Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling, Marist College
  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, SUNY Geneseo
  • Member of the American Counseling Association (ACA)
  • Middletown Office
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Brianna earned her Bachelor of Social Work degree from Siena College and her Master of Social Work degree from Adelphi University. Throughout her education and early career, she worked with at-risk adolescents experiencing trauma and maladaptive coping as both a clinician and crisis interventionist. She later spent several years in emergency services, specializing in trauma-informed care for adolescents and adults. Brianna has extensive experience working with individuals struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, mood dysregulation, self-esteem, and relationship challenges.

Brianna takes a strength-based, integrative approach to therapy, empowering clients to discover their own path toward healing and self-acceptance. She believes that while we cannot change the past, we can change our relationship with it. She is passionate about helping clients develop effective coping skills, reconnect with their inner resilience, and build lives that extend beyond surviving trauma.

Brianna believes healing is not only a journey of the mind, but a whole-body experience. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200) and thoughtfully incorporates mind-body practices into therapy to support nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and emotional awareness. She is also certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), an evidence-based trauma treatment that helps clients process distressing experiences, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), offering a holistic approach for individuals seeking deeper healing from trauma, depression, anxiety, and other emotional challenges. By integrating traditional psychotherapy with somatic approaches and specialized trauma treatments, Brianna helps clients create lasting, meaningful change.

Above all, Brianna is dedicated to creating a safe, compassionate, and authentic therapeutic environment where clients feel seen, supported, and empowered to reconnect with their truest selves.

Brianna resides in Orange County with her two rescue huskies. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, spending time in nature, painting, practicing yoga, and cooking while surrounded by music, friends, and family.

  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker, State of New York
  • Master’s of Social Work, Adelphi University
  • Master’s of Social Work, Adelphi University RYT-200
  • Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Certified, Journey Clinical
  • Accelerated Resolution Therapy Trained, Rosenzweig Center for Rapid Recovery
  • Middletown Office
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Ashley received her Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling from SUNY New Paltz. While attending her graduate program, Ashley worked as a supervisor at a Crisis Intervention Program and interned at an Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program, gaining valuable skills in crisis management and group therapy. Before joining Nourish Counseling, she spent several years working in a long-term outpatient care clinic specializing in children, adolescents and their families. Ashley has expertise in partnering with those suffering from depression, anxiety, trauma, family conflict, and personality disorders.

Ashley believes that each client is their own expert. She provides an integrative approach that focuses on both the thoughts and behaviors her clients may be struggling with in order to help them find balance and build resiliency. She works with clients in a person-centered and skill building approach to help determine and reach their own individual goals. Following a Dialectical Behavioral and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach, she encourages and supports clients to reach their full potential.

Ashley lives in Middletown, NY with her husband and a very loved dog. She enjoys family time, cooking, and trying new things whenever possible.

  • American Counseling Association
  • Middletown Office
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Amanda is a Certified Clinicial Trauma Professional with a deep commitment to guiding clients through their healing and discovery. She believes that you are the expert of your own life, and she is dedicated to building a safe, collaborative space where you feel both validated and motivated for change. 

Amanda specializes in treating those with Complex Trauma, Grief and Loss, Anxiety and Depression, Chronic Illness, Infertility, Infant/Pregnancy Loss, Women’s Health and Neurodivergent Disorders. She works with individuals aged 5 and up. 

Amanda’s unique, holistic approach to psychothreapy is rooted in evidence-based practices and tailored to fit your specific clinical needs. She seamlessly integrates practices like mindfulness and meditation with powerful theraputic modalities, including Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Internal Family Systems Therapy. 

After gaining experience in Baltimore – including intensive work in Residential Foster Care and as a Medical Social Worker – Amanda has been settled back in her home, the Hudson Valley. She enjoys cooking, reading and spending time with her husband and two young daughters. She has journeyed with cleints for nearly 5 years at Nourish and is now ready to partner with you!

  • Cornwall Office
  • Middletown Office