How Accelerated Resolution Therapy Can Help Your PTSD with Yolanda Harper LCSW

Today's guest Yolanda Harper is a therapist by trade, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in trauma and post-traumatic growth, and an ART practitioner. Her most meaningful work is to bear witness to people’s stories of struggle, strife, grit, and growth. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Harper Therapy in Lutz, Florida.

ART or Accelerated Resolution Therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy that has demonstrated proven results in treating individuals with PTSD. It is an eye movement therapy that is different from traditional talk therapy. You’ll find relief from the memories that play on a loop in your brain and you don’t have to talk in detail about what happened.

ART allows you to heal from difficult experiences without having to relive them over and over again. It is a fast and highly effective treatment for PTSD, trauma, anxiety, phobias, prolonged grief and other mental health conditions that works quickly; most clients report their symptoms completely fade in one to six ART sessions. 

Clients follow a trained therapist’s hand movements with their eyes, a form of bilateral stimulation of the brain. The process enables clients to reconsolidate their memories; while they still recall the troubling event, they no longer experience unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms when thinking of it.

ART clinicians are currently treating their clients, during the pandemic, through telehealth, using a unique set-up in which another person (usually a family member) must be present with the client while the session proceeds. That person assists the clinician and ensures that the client it safe.