Cutting-edge treatment helping those who suffer from PTSD

This video features LMSW Holly Christensen and Juls Thompson’s recent experience with Accelerated Resolution Therapy.

REXBURG — Imagine living daily with the emotional torment that comes from a traumatic life event months or decades after it happened.

“For some, it’s debilitating,” licensed master social worker Holly Christensen says. “They just stop, and they’re stuck.”

Thanks to a new form of therapy that treats post-traumatic stress disorder, clinicians throughout the Gem State are becoming certified in accelerated resolution therapy (ART).

“It truly is incredible at how effective and how fast this is,” Christensen says.

Christensen works at Integrated Counseling and Wellness in Rexburg and is certified in ART. She’s is now working on becoming a clinician and an ART trainer. Since going through intensive 72-hour training, she’s helped PTSD clients recover rapidly.

One of Christensen’s clients, Lindsay Moncur, was willing to share her experience on this swift treatment.

“One thing I love about it is that I just don’t have to sit and suffer through these traumatic, difficult experiences,” Moncur says. “I was so excited to hear that there was something like this out there and that I could get through my trauma in a way that wouldn’t take years and years.”

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