Rapid PTSD and trauma relief in 1-5 sessions.
Trauma Therapy for Accidents, Injuries and Medical Malpractice
The Physical Injury Was Only One of the Hardest Parts
The car accident was six months ago. Your bones healed, and the scars faded. But you still grip the steering wheel until your knuckles turn white. Or, you refuse to drive at all.
The surgery went badly: a complication, a misdiagnosis, an error that caused harm. They fixed it, mostly. But now you can’t walk into a medical building without your heart racing. You’ve canceled three follow-up appointments because the thought of sitting in that waiting room makes you physically ill.
The workplace accident left you with chronic pain, but that’s not what’s ruining your life. It’s the flashbacks, the nightmares, and the way every unexpected sound makes you jump. The way you’ve become someone you don't recognize: anxious, irritable, and someone who avoids everything.
Whether your injury came from a car crash, a fall, a workplace accident, a surgical complication, or medical malpractice, your body might have healed, but your nervous system didn’t get the memo.
How Injury Trauma and Medical Trauma Affect You
When something happens to your body, ie, a car crash, a workplace injury, a surgical error, a misdiagnosis that caused harm, your brain creates intense memories designed to keep you safe.
Except now, those memories won’t stop intruding, even when you are safe.
This is how trauma works, whether your injury came from an accident or from the medical system that was supposed to help you.
The car crash, the fall, or the moment you realized something was medically wrong plays on repeat. You see the other car, hear the impact, and feel your body hit the ground. Or, you remember the doctor’s face when they told you about the error. And you think about it over and over, without warning, in the middle of ordinary moments.
Medical settings feel dangerous now, especially if your injury came from one. Walking into any healthcare facility can trigger a full panic response. Your body reacts like you’re back in that moment when everything went wrong.
Driving or being near the accident location becomes impossible if that’s where your injury happened. Your body remembers the moment of impact and won’t let you forget that it could happen again.
Your body stays on high alert regardless of how you were injured. Scanning for threats, tense, ready to react, and exhausted from the constant vigilance, but unable to turn it off. Whether you're watching for dangerous drivers or avoiding medical care you actually need, it’s exhausting.
You can’t trust your body or the systems that are supposed to keep you safe. Your body betrayed you once, or the medical system did. What if it happens again? What if you miss the warning signs? What if you can’t protect yourself? The loss of trust impacts everything.
What You’ve Already Tried
Pain management and physical therapy addressed the bodily symptoms but not the trauma. The medication helps with the physical pain, but it does nothing for the intrusive memories, the hypervigilance, or the way your life has shrunk to avoid any situation that might trigger you, whether that’s driving, certain locations, or medical facilities.
Your doctor said, “You’re healing well,” but you don’t feel well. Medically, you’re stable. The lawsuit was settled, or the insurance covered it, or everyone agreed it was “just an accident.” But psychologically, you’re still in the moment of the accident or injury.
Regular talk therapy felt like just telling the story over and over. Weeks of sessions where you talked about what happened, processed your feelings about the accident, and learned coping skills. The memories still intrude, the fear still controls your decisions, and you’re tired of rehashing it without seeing real change.
You tried to “face your fears,” but it was re-traumatizing. Exposure therapy or being pushed back into situations too soon made things worse: getting back on the road, going to a medical appointment. Your nervous system didn't calm down; it confirmed that these situations ARE dangerous. You felt worse, not better.
You pursued legal action. Maybe you won your case, maybe you settled, maybe you’re still in litigation. But even if you got compensation, the trauma doesn’t just go away. Justice and healing are two different things, and you’re still waiting for the healing part.
Here’s the Good News: Trauma and PTSD From Personal Injuries and Medical Malpractice Can Heal … Rapidly
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) works directly with how upsetting or frightening memories are filed in your nervous system, so that they lose their emotional charge. They become something that you experienced in the past, rather than a current threat.
What ART does:
Allows your brain to reprocess what happened using eye movements
Changes how the memory is stored so it stops triggering you
Happens in 1-5 sessions (60-90 minutes each)
No hypnosis, drugs, homework, or traditional exposure required
What changes:
The accident becomes just something that happened, not something your brain treats as still happening
Medical settings become neutral locations, not triggers
Your body’s threat response turns off because there’s no current threat
You make decisions based on what you want to do, not what you’re avoiding
The Research: Why ART Works for Personal Injury Trauma and Medical Malpractice Trauma
Accident-related personal injury trauma: Studies show that 25-33% of people who experience traumatic personal injuries develop PTSD symptoms.
Car accidents are the leading cause of PTSD in the general population. The more sudden and unexpected the injury, the higher the risk.
Medical malpractice trauma: When your injury came from the healthcare system, such as surgical complications, misdiagnosis, or medical errors, there’s an additional layer of betrayal.
You trusted the system to help you, and instead, it harmed you. This creates a unique type of trauma that combines physical injury with loss of trust in the medical care system.
Why ART works for both: ART was specifically researched with military personnel experiencing combat-related physical injuries and shows a 94% treatment completion rate with significant symptom reduction in just 1-5 sessions.
Whether your trauma came from a personal injury or from medical malpractice, ART addresses how your brain stored the traumatic memory so that it stops intruding and triggering your nervous system.
Stop Just Surviving and Start Living
Through our work together, you’ll stop surviving and start living. Not managing trauma, not coping with triggers, not getting through each day. Actually living with spontaneity, joy, and the freedom to choose your life instead of trauma choosing it for you.
What changes after our work together…
You can drive to work, take your kids to school, and run errands without planning routes to avoid triggers. You’ll be able to accept the job with the commute, pick up your daughter from soccer practice, drive to visit family across the state, and live your life without a 10-mile radius of “safe” roads.
You can attend medical appointments and get the care you need. Follow through with physical therapy, get that MRI your doctor ordered, go to your annual checkup, and address health issues before they become emergencies.
You can sleep through the night. You’ll function at work, have patience with your family, make clear decisions, stop needing three cups of coffee just to get through the day, and have energy for your life instead of using it all to manage exhaustion.
You can return to the activities that made your life worth living. Play basketball again, go hiking, ride your bike, garden, dance, coach your kid’s team, and do the physical activities you loved instead of watching from the sidelines.
You can take the promotion that requires travel. You’ll be able to fly for work, drive to client meetings, take the opportunity instead of turning it down because it involves highways or rental cars, and advance your career without anxiety-based limitations.
You can set appropriate boundaries with medical providers so that you can speak up when something doesn’t feel right, switch providers who dismiss your concerns, ask questions during appointments, and participate in your own healthcare instead of freezing up or complying out of fear.
You can be in your body again so that you can have sex without dissociating, feel your partner's touch, enjoy physical intimacy, connect with your body during exercise, notice hunger and fullness, and live in your bodily experience instead of disconnecting from it.
If you’re in litigation, you can participate in your case without re-traumatizing yourself. Attend depositions, review medical records, make clear decisions about settlements, communicate with your attorney, and pursue justice without your trauma symptoms sabotaging the process or making every step unbearable.
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $500.
ART sessions are $500 per session. Each session runs as long as needed to complete the protocol, typically 60-90 minutes. The average treatment duration is 3-4 sessions for most issues, but it’s not uncommon to complete treatment in just one session.
Total investment for most clients: $1,500-$2,500.
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
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No. While I can provide clinical documentation and coordinate with other providers treating you, I don’t serve as an expert witness or provide forensic evaluations for legal cases.
If you’re working with an attorney (whether for a car accident claim, workplace injury, or medical malpractice case), therapy services are completely separate from your legal case. Treatment focuses on your psychological recovery, not legal strategy or case documentation.
I strongly encourage you to discuss your participation in ART with your attorney before scheduling. Please contact me here and I can help you with that.
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No. Many people with trauma from medical malpractice or personal injury dont meet full PTSD criteria but still have intrusive memories, avoidance, and hypervigilance that interfere with their lives. ART works for the symptoms, regardless of diagnosis.
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ART focuses on the traumatic memory, not pain management. Some people notice their pain improves when the trauma is resolved (because nervous system activation can amplify pain), but this isn’t pain treatment. You should continue working with your medical providers for the physical injury.
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No. ART doesn’t require detailed verbal retelling or prolonged exposure to the traumatic memory. We work with how your brain stored it using eye movements, which feels very different from traditional trauma therapy.
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Both use bilateral eye movements. ART is more directive, typically faster (1-5 sessions vs. 8-12), and doesn’t require you to repeatedly bring up the memory. Most people find ART much less emotionally intense than EMDR.
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Trauma isn’t about blame. Even if you made a mistake that led to the injury, your nervous system can still respond traumatically. ART resolves the trauma response regardless of how the injury happened.
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Trauma symptoms can emerge or intensify years after the original event, especially medical trauma where you may have suppressed feelings to continue getting necessary care. ART works regardless of how long ago the injury occurred.
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That’s completely understandable, especially if your trauma came from medical malpractice or a harmful medical experience. Many people with medical trauma struggle to get the care they need because they can’t tolerate being in medical settings.
One unique thing about ART is that it doesn’t require much of a therapeutic relationship like talk therapy does. You can disclose as many of the details (or none) to me as you feel comfortable with.
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Yes. ART typically complements other treatments, ie, physical therapy, pain management, and medical care. I can coordinate with your other providers with your permission.
About Allyson Clemmons, LICSW
Real healing happens in the nervous system, not just in conversation.
After 15 years in traditional talk therapy, I now specialize in rapid trauma relief using Accelerated Resolution Therapy.
Using ART’s eye movements, we’ll work directly with how traumatic memories are stored in your brain. Most clients experience relief in 1-5 sessions instead of months or years.
If you want freedom from symptoms (not just management), you’re exactly who I work with.
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