“Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a form of psychotherapy with roots in existing evidence-based therapies but shown to achieve benefits much more rapidly (usually within 1-5 sessions). Clients with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, sexual abuse and many other mental and physical conditions can experience remarkable benefits starting in the first session. ART is not hypnosis.

So far studies are indicating that clients will feel relief from their symptoms within 1 to 5 sessions.http://publications.amsus.org/doi/abs/10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00298?journalCode=milmed

Specifically, it has been shown that whenever we recall an emotional memory, that memory becomes open to change.  As a matter of fact, we are always making changes to emotional memories when we recall them, we just didn’t realize that this was happening.http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/10/memories.aspx

Now that we know this happens, when it comes to traumatic memory, we can harness this opportunity to purposefully make the changes that will free us from the troubling images and sensations and the emotions that cause suffering…”

http://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/web/evidence-based/