For Referring Clinicians

Short-term, targeted work. Then back to you.

If you have a client who is stuck on a specific target, I offer focused ART treatment as an adjunct to your ongoing work, not as a transfer of care.

The Arrangement

You keep the therapeutic relationship. I take a defined piece of work, usually a specific memory, image or reaction that has not moved, treat it over a short course of ART sessions or a single intensive, and your client returns to you.

I will tell you what we targeted and what shifted, with your client's written authorization. I am not looking to take on long-term caseload from referrals, and I will say so to your client as clearly as I am saying it here.

When to Think of Me

The useful distinction is not how severe the presentation is. It is whether there is something specific to aim at. A client who is generally struggling but cannot yet locate a target is usually better served by staying with the work you are already doing until one becomes clear.

Often a Good Referral

A client stuck on one target despite sustained progress elsewhere
Trauma-related symptoms that have plateaued in EMDR or in talk therapy
A specific phobia driving disproportionate avoidance
A client who cannot tolerate repeated narrative retelling
A client whose schedule suits an intensive better than weekly sessions

Probably Not a Good Referral

A client needing stabilization or a higher level of care
A client without a definable target
A client outside Kentucky, Ohio and South Carolina
Children, adolescents, couples or families, as I work with individual adults only

Making the Referral, Step by Step

Ask first, or send them straight over

Both are fine. If you are not certain the case fits, put the question to me before you raise the idea with your client. I would rather tell you it is not a fit in an email than have your client hear it later.

They book the free consultation themselves

Fifteen minutes, no charge. I explain what ART involves, we look at whether there is a workable target, and they decide. There is no obligation, and I will say plainly if I am not the right person.

We name the scope out loud

Before any paid appointment, your client and I agree what we are treating and how we will know whether it has shifted. They hear from me, in the same words you are reading here, that this is a defined piece of work and that you remain their therapist.

The work itself

A short course of ART sessions or a single extended intensive, delivered by secure video. Scheduling is arranged directly with your client.

They come back to you

I do not convert referrals into ongoing general therapy, and I do not quietly keep hold of someone because the work went well. When the target is done, the episode is closed.

What Comes Back to You

With your client's written authorization, you can expect a concise written summary: the target we treated, the approach used, what changed, and anything I noticed that seems relevant to the work you are continuing. Not a transcript, and nothing your client has not agreed to share.

Without that authorization I will confirm nothing at all, including whether your client ever contacted me. That is not obstruction. It is the same protection you would want around your own caseload.

If something surfaces that suggests a different level of care is needed, you will hear it from me promptly rather than at the end of a course of work. If a target does not move, I will tell you that too.

About the Approach

Accelerated Resolution Therapy uses smooth-pursuit bilateral eye movement alongside a structured protocol that includes voluntary image replacement. It shares mechanism territory with EMDR and differs in protocol and in the imagery component, which is why some clients who have plateaued in one respond to the other.

I also use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and solution-focused approaches when those are a better fit such as complex or relational trauma.

Practical

Delivery: Secure video, adults in Kentucky, Ohio and South Carolina
Formats: 60-minute sessions, or extended intensives up to 3 hours
Payment: Private pay; fees on the Rates & Policies page
Communication: With the client's written authorization, I can coordinate with the referring clinician and provide a concise summary of treatment targets, progress, and outcomes when clinically appropriate.

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