Psychiatrist and Founder of A‑RRT: Accessible Resolution Restoration & Transformation
Welcome
I’m Dr. Luke de Nauw, a psychiatrist with decades of experience and a deep interest in helping people suffer less and live more freely.
Although I was trained as a medical specialist in psychiatry, I kept searching for better and more effective ways to help people who felt emotionally stuck, burdened by the past, or no longer fully themselves.
Over the years, that search led me through psychiatric psychotherapy, mindfulness, cognitive behavioural approaches, and eventually to two methods that deeply shaped my current work: Constructional Behavioural Therapy and, especially, Rapid Resolution Therapy.
What resonated deeply with me in both was not only the possibility of meaningful change, sometimes much faster than people expect, but also the conviction that when we choose to work with someone, we should take real responsibility for helping that change happen.
Alongside these professional influences, I also found lasting inspiration in nondual understanding. This has deepened my appreciation of the difference between what we essentially are and the patterns of fear, distress, and identification that can temporarily take over the mind. In practice, this does not mean withdrawing from ordinary life. It means helping people relate differently to their thoughts, emotions, and inner experience, often with more space, clarity, and freedom.
A-RRT grew out of that journey. It is a highly personal, tailor-made approach aimed at helping people resolve outdated emotional reactions, restore healthier functioning, and move forward with greater clarity, freedom, and emotional well-being.
Over recent years, I have completed more than 750 hours of official training through the Institute of Rapid Resolution Therapy and have spent many additional hundreds of hours learning from experienced RRT specialists such as Terrence Kimper. I have not only practised this work extensively, but also mentored others in it. Earlier in my career, from 1998 to 2005, I was trained and supervised by Dr. Beata Bakker, the creator of Constructional Behavioural Therapy, and I have continued to work successfully from that perspective ever since.
Emotional suffering is not necessarily a sign that something is fundamentally wrong with a person. Often, it is the result of outdated information being processed as if it still belongs to the present.
People do not always need more analysis. They often need the mind to update itself in the right way.
Trauma does not have to be relived in order to be resolved.
When guided skillfully, the mind can often reorganise itself in a natural and surprisingly gentle way.
Therapy does not have to be heavy, endless, or joyless. It can be practical, elegant, and at times even deeply relieving.
One principle I value deeply in both Constructional Behavioural Therapy and Rapid Resolution Therapy is that responsibility for transformation should lie first with the therapist, not be pushed back onto the client. The task of the practitioner is not to blame, analyse endlessly, or keep people trapped in their history, but to help clear the path toward greater freedom, clarity, and well-being.