Scott DeLuzio: [00:00:00] Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast, where we are focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community. Whether you’re a veteran, active duty guard, reserve, or a family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host, Scott DeLuzio, and now let’s get on with the show.

Hey everybody. Welcome back to Drive On. I’m your host Scott DeLuzio, and today my G guest is Brooke Bralove. Brooke is a psychotherapist, a licensed clinical social worker, and an advanced. Accelerated resolution therapy practitioner with over 20 years of experience. Um, we’re gonna be focusing this episode on treating trauma and P T S D through the ex, the accelerated, uh, resolution therapy, uh, practice that I just talked about there.

Um, so with that, welcome to the show, Brooke. I’m glad to have you here.

Brooke Bralove: Thanks, Scott. Thanks

Scott DeLuzio: for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So. Before [00:01:00] we jump into this episode, for the listeners who maybe aren’t familiar with you and your background, uh, could you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Brooke Bralove: Sure. Um, so my name is Brooke Bralove and I’m a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist.

Uh, I’ve been in private practice for about 19 years in Bethesda, Maryland, which is right outside Washington DC and I specialize in working with adults, couples groups, um, Around relationship issues, trauma, depression, anxiety. Um, I’m also a facilitator of Brene Brown’s, uh, daring Greatly curriculum and a sex therapist.

And, uh, this, this newest wonderful thing that I’m here to talk about today. I, uh, practice accelerated resolution therapy. You

Scott DeLuzio: know, and before we started recording, I, I was telling you that this form of therapy only recently came onto my radar, uh, only i, I would say maybe a month or so ago. [00:02:00] Um, and it just so happened that as I was learning about what this is, I happen to come across your profile on, on one of these, I forget which site it was on, but one of these podcast, uh, guest matching kind of services.

Um, and I read that and I was like, like, oh my gosh, I can’t believe that. I just found out about this. I was wanting to find somebody to talk about this because I thought it was mm-hmm. Something. Relatively new. I’ve never heard about it, and I assume that maybe some guests maybe haven’t heard about it.

And I wanted to get somebody like yourself on the show and boom, you popped up. So it was like this, I don’t know if it’s, you know, someone out there serendipity, you know, someone, someone’s out there listening in on my conversation through my phone, I’m sure. And they’re, they’re hearing what I wanna have.

So that’s how it showed up. But, uh, yeah, probably serendipity too, you know. Um, but yeah, it’s, I mean, really, it’s great. Um, That you’re here, definitely have some experience with it. How old is this? This, uh, form of therapy? Mm-hmm. [00:03:00]

Brooke Bralove: Yeah. So art was created, it’s also called art or a r t, however you wanna do it.

I, I started with art, so I’m sticking with it. Um, and, uh, art began in 2008. Uh, a wonderful therapist named Laney Rosenzweig, uh, took an em d r training and loved it. But thought, oh, I think I could tweak it and make i...