Personal, tailor-made help for real emotional change
A-RRT helps high-functioning professionals and other capable people resolve outdated emotional reactions, restore healthy functioning, and move forward with more clarity, freedom, and well-being.
You may not be broken. You may be blocked.
Many people who seek help are not lacking intelligence, motivation, or character.
Often, something more specific is going on: part of the mind is still reacting to danger, loss, shame, conflict, or emotional pain as if it were still happening now.
That can happen after trauma, grief, panic, humiliation, burnout, relationship pain, or prolonged stress. A person may understand perfectly well that the situation belongs to the past, yet still feel tense, pulled back, avoidant, overwhelmed, or emotionally stuck.
A-RRT was developed for exactly that kind of suffering.
It is a personal, highly tailored approach that helps people suffer less, feel more clear and free, and regain access to healthier functioning.
What A-RRT means
Accessible Resolution, Restoration and Transformation
These three words describe the heart of the work.
Resolution means helping the mind stop producing emotional reactions that are no longer necessary.
Restoration means helping people return to healthier ways of functioning that may have been lost, disrupted, or blocked.
Transformation means supporting broader, more resilient, and more flexible functioning in daily life, relationships, and work.
Not just theory. Not just coping.
A-RRT is not built around endless analysis, generic advice, or asking people to simply live better with emotional distress.
It is based on a different principle: when an emotional reaction has become unnecessary, the goal is not merely to manage it better. The goal is to help the mind stop producing it.
This work is also deeply personal.
It is not one-size-fits-all. It is tailor-made.
Just as a well-made suit is shaped around the person, not the other way around, this approach is carefully adapted to the individual in front of me. The aim is not to force people into a protocol, but to find the right way to help meaningful change happen.
A principle that shapes the work
Early in my psychiatric training, I often saw people who clearly needed help being told they were not motivated enough for therapy. That never sat right with me.
Later, I found two therapeutic approaches that deeply resonated with me: Constructional Behavioural Therapy and Rapid Resolution Therapy. What struck me in both was a rare and powerful principle: when we choose to work with someone, we take real responsibility for helping meaningful change happen.
That conviction still shapes everything I do today.
I do not believe in hiding behind blame or quickly deciding that a client is simply unmotivated. In the rare cases where positive transformation does not occur, I believe the professional should first examine their own skill, understanding, and way of working.
Who this may help
A-RRT is often especially relevant for people who have previously shown healthy, high-level functioning and who, for one reason or another, have lost access to that way of being.
This may include people struggling with trauma, panic, anxiety, grief, shame, guilt, self-criticism, stress, burnout, relationship pain, or persistent emotional reactions that no longer fit present reality.
In such cases, the work is often not about building a person from scratch. It is about helping them return to a healthier and more natural level of functioning.
What I have seen in practice
Over the years, I have seen both Constructional Behavioural Therapy and Rapid Resolution Therapy bring about striking and sometimes unexpectedly rapid changes.
I have also seen that combining important elements of both approaches can, in some cases, be even more powerful.
Constructional Behavioural Therapy seems especially valuable with people who have previously functioned well and who have somehow lost access to that healthier pattern. Rapid Resolution Therapy can be especially powerful where outdated emotional reactions continue to run long after the original situation is over.
A-RRT brings these strengths together in a personal and highly adaptive way.
A focused way to begin
The 6-hour trajectory
For many people, the best way to begin is with a focused 6-hour trajectory.
This offers a clear, efficient, and serious starting point. It gives enough time to understand the problem properly, work in depth, and create meaningful movement.
Possible formats include 2 sessions of 3 hours, 3 sessions of 2 hours, or 5 sessions of 70 minutes.
For some people, this focused format is enough to bring about major change.
For others, especially where a more constructional longer-term process is helpful, a longer tailor-made trajectory may be the better fit.
What this is not the best fit for
A-RRT is not the right fit for every situation.
Because this work depends on clarity, responsiveness, and the mind’s ability to engage fully in the process, I do not currently position this approach as the best fit for people whose difficulties are significantly complicated by benzodiazepine dependence or by active alcohol or drug abuse.
In such cases, other specialised support is often the better first step.
Honesty about limits is part of professional responsibility.
About Dr. Luke de Nauw
I am a psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience and a longstanding interest in helping people move beyond unnecessary emotional suffering.
My work gradually developed from traditional psychiatry toward a more personal, highly focused, and deeply responsible way of helping people change. Constructional Behavioural Therapy (developed by Dr. Beata Bakker) and Rapid Resolution Therapy (developed by Dr Jon Connely) have both been important influences in that development.
A-RRT is the result of that journey: a tailor-made approach aimed at helping people resolve outdated emotional reactions, restore healthier functioning, and move forward with more freedom and clarity.
Ready to get back on track?
If part of your mind still seems to be reacting to something that no longer belongs in the present, or if you feel you have somehow lost access to your natural way of functioning, A-RRT may offer a clearer path forward.