What I Treat
ART for PTSD in Adults
For adults who have been diagnosed with PTSD or who experience persistent trauma-related symptoms and want to address those symptoms directly.
What PTSD Looks Like on an Ordinary Tuesday
A door closes harder than you expected and your whole body is already up. A smell in a parking garage puts you somewhere you have not been in years. You wake at 3 a.m. with your heart going and no memory of a dream, then lie there running the checklist until the alarm goes off.
You sit facing the door. You know where the exits are in every room you enter. You have quietly stopped watching certain films, driving certain roads, and taking certain calls. People who work with you would describe you as steady, and you have worked hard to keep it that way.
What tends to bring people here is not a collapse. It is the arithmetic of how much energy the management is costing, and the sense that describing the event once a week has stopped producing change.
Why PTSD Responds to ART
PTSD keeps its material in pictures. The intrusive part of the memory is visual and physical before it is verbal, which is why explaining it accurately does so little to the reaction. ART works at the level the symptom actually operates on: you hold the image in mind while I guide sets of eye movements, and we work with what the image does to your body.
The facts remain yours. You will still know what happened and you will still be able to speak about it if you choose to. What often changes is the grip: the picture stops arriving on its own schedule, and recalling it deliberately stops pulling your system into full alarm. Startle, scanning and sleep are usually the first places people notice something different.
What a Session on PTSD Involves
We start by naming what you want to be different in concrete terms: sleeping through, driving that stretch of road, sitting with your back to a room. Then we pick one target and stay with it rather than touring the whole history.
You hold the scene while I guide the eye movements and watch what your body reports. I check in constantly, and you decide how much you say out loud. Detailed narration is not required for the work to move. At the end we test the same image again so you can tell what changed while you were in the room.
Sessions run 60 minutes by secure video, or up to three hours as an ART intensive when you would rather work through more in one sitting.
What This Is Not, and When It Is Not the Fit
- Not a guarantee of any particular result, and never a promised number of sessions.
- Not medication management. Anything you take for PTSD stays with your prescriber.
- Not open-ended supportive counseling. Every session works toward a target you set.
- Not the right fit while you need inpatient care or a higher level of support. We would talk about that at the consultation.
- Adults only, by secure video in Kentucky and Ohio.
This is not a crisis service.
If you are in crisis, please call or text 988, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room. ART is not appropriate during active psychosis or acute crisis. Individual outcomes vary.
PTSD Therapy by City
Sessions are by secure video anywhere in Kentucky and Ohio, with no office visit. These pages cover the areas people ask about most often.
Talk it through in a free fifteen-minute consultation.
It is a short conversation by video or phone. You tell me what the symptoms are doing now, I tell you how I would approach them and answer questions about ART. Nothing is worked on in that call and you are not asked to describe the event.