Freedom from partner betrayal in 1-5 sessions using Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapy in Boston
Online therapy across Massachusetts for betrayal, affairs, and infidelity.
Expert Therapy For Partner Betrayal and Infidelity in Boston
Maybe you discovered your partner’s betrayal through a credit card statement, text messages, or deleted photos. Now you’re checking their phone at 2am, investigating obsessively, unable to sleep.
Your body regularly reacts like you’re discovering it all over again. Traditional therapy helped you understand why you’re triggered daily, but it didn’t help the triggers stop.
I specialize in partner betrayal and infidelity, including sexual affairs, emotional affairs, and pornography betrayal.
I offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to my Boston clients. ART is a revolutionary approach that resolves partner betrayal trauma in 1-5 sessions, not months or years of talk therapy.
You’re experiencing symptoms of partner betrayal trauma (also called post-infidelity stress disorder) like…
Unwanted thoughts of the betrayal, even when you’re trying not to think about it
Constantly scanning for signs of deception, checking phones/emails, or being overly alert to potential threats in the relationship
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or experiencing nightmares related to the betrayal
Feeling disconnected from emotions, relationships, or activities that once brought joy
Sudden onset of intense fear, racing heart, or physical symptoms when triggered by reminders of the betrayal
Difficulty trusting others, withdrawing from relationships, or feeling unable to form new relationships with others
Headaches, stomach issues, muscle tension, or other physical problems that developed after the betrayal
How Partner Betrayal Trauma Changes After ART
Through our work together, you’ll be able to make clear decisions about your relationship and your future without anxiety taking over. You’ll sleep through the night, focus at work, and have difficult conversations without fear overwhelming your nervous system.
After 1-5 ART sessions, many people who have experienced partner betrayal trauma describe their healing journey like this…
Sleep comes back — You sleep through the night without grinding your teeth or waking up at 3am after a nightmare. You wake up rested enough to function at work instead of running on cortisol and coffee.
You can focus at work again — You finish the quarterly report without intrusive images interrupting every ten minutes. Meetings are just meetings, not battles to keep your mind from spiraling. Your performance returns to where it was before discovery day.
Triggers stop triggering you — You drive past the hotel where it happened and only notice because the traffic light is long. Their name on your phone doesn’t make your heart race. These things become neutral facts, like knowing what year the building was constructed.
The detective work disappears — You forget their phone password because you haven’t needed it in months. The urge to check their location, scroll through their email, or verify their story simply isn’t there anymore. And it isn’t because you are resisting the urge to constantly verify; it’s because that urge is simply gone.
You can make decisions about the relationship — Stay or leave, reconcile or divorce — you can actually think through your options without panic, rage, or despair clouding everything. Your choices come from clarity instead of trauma.
Difficult conversations become possible — You can talk to your partner about what happened, what you need, or what comes next without your body flooding with adrenaline. You say what you mean. You hold your boundaries. Your voice doesn’t shake.
Sex and intimacy are available again — If you choose to stay, you can be physically close without flashbacks or dissociation pulling you out of the moment.
Places are just places — The hotel, the restaurant, that stretch of highway — they lose their charge. You choose where to eat based on the food, not based on what memories you’re trying to avoid.
Your gut works accurately — Your instincts respond to what’s actually happening right now, not to what happened six months ago. You can trust your own judgment again because your nervous system isn’t constantly screaming false alarms.
You think about the future — Planning a trip, starting a project, imagining next year. Your brain orients forward automatically because the past has finally become the past.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy: 1-5 Sessions for Partner Betrayal Trauma Relief…
What Makes ART Different From Other Approaches?
While traditional therapy focuses on talking through your partner’s (or family member’s or friend’s, etc) betrayal and understanding it, ART targets the actual images, emotions, and sensations stored in your brain that trigger you. Using guided eye movements (similar to what your body naturally does during sleep), ART works directly to “reprogram” how distressing memories are stored in your brain so that they no longer trigger automatic physical and emotional reactions.
Think of it like reorganizing a filing system in your brain. Right now, partner betrayal-related memories are filed in your “immediate threat” folder, causing your nervous system to react as if danger is present every time they’re accessed.
ART helps move these memories into a different filing system: “past events that no longer require emergency response.” The facts remain the same, but your brain’s automatic reaction changes completely.
And the best news is that this neurological change is automatic. It's not something you have to consciously choose or work at maintaining. In other words, no “skills” or “tools” are needed.
But Does It Really Work for Partner Betrayal? The Evidence Resoundingly Says Yes.
While the research on ART for partner betrayal trauma is still emerging, the results from broader trauma studies are directly applicable and profoundly promising.
In other words, your brain’s response to partner betrayal is a trauma response, and ART is designed to resolve it fast.
Here’s what the science tells us:
Rapid results: Most clients see significant relief in 1-5 sessions, not months or years. The efficiency of ART means you can stop spending your life managing symptoms and start living it again.
Exceptional completion rates: People stick with ART because they can feel it working quickly, which is crucial when you’re exhausted and can’t imagine another long-term therapy commitment.
Profound neurological change: Studies on ART consistently show effect sizes (a measure of treatment strength) that are 2-4 times stronger than traditional therapy. This isn't just “feeling a little better”; it’s tangible, measurable, lasting change in how your brain and body respond to triggers.
It works for the tough cases: ART showed a 61% major improvement rate in combat veterans with PTSD, a population that often struggles with other therapies. This demonstrates its power to handle severe, stubborn trauma responses, like those often seen after betrayal.
The research confirms what we see in practice: ART effectively calms the overactive threat response that betrayal trauma creates, allowing your nervous system to finally return to a state of safety.
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
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 length of treatment is 3-4 sessions for most issues.
Total investment for most clients: $1,500-$2,000.
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Boston Area Coverage
I provide online trauma therapy to residents throughout the Greater Boston area, including:
Back Bay • Beacon Hill • South End • North End • Fenway • Jamaica Plain • Brookline • Newton • Quincy • Dedham • Wellesley • Lexington • Medford • Roslindale • West Roxbury • Hyde Park
Also offering partner betrayal trauma therapy in the Cambridge area.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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I specialize in all types of betrayal: relationship betrayal (infidelity, affairs, emotional affairs, pornography addiction, financial deception), family betrayals (parent affairs that destroyed your family, sibling betrayals, inheritance disputes, family business conflicts, discovering family secrets), friendship betrayals (best friend betrayals, social group exclusions, confidences violated), and professional betrayals (business partnership deception, workplace affairs that affected you, mentor violations of trust).
The common thread is that someone you trusted fundamentally violated that trust, leaving you with symptoms of betrayal trauma. Whether it was a spouse, parent, sibling, best friend, or business partner, your nervous system responds the same way, and ART addresses that trauma response directly.
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No. You don’t have to share any of the specifics. ART works with the images and sensations stored in your nervous system, not the verbal story. You can keep the details private and still process the trauma completely. Many clients find this privacy one of the most relieving aspects of ART.
This is especially helpful for people who are processing a business betrayal or work trauma and they have signed an NDA.
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That’s completely normal. ART helps your nervous system calm down so that you can think clearly about those types of decisions. Right now, trauma is making every decision feel urgent and next to impossible.
After ART, you’ll still have the same choices to make, but you’ll be making them from a regulated place instead of from panic, rage, or numbness.
Many clients say they couldn’t even think about the relationship question clearly until their nervous system settled.
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Based on ART research for trauma generally, most issues resolve in 1-5 sessions, with a 94% treatment completion rate.
While there isn’t specific published research on betrayal trauma and ART yet, complex trauma typically takes 4-5 sessions, while single-incident traumas often need just 1-2.
We'll start with one session and assess from there. You’ll know after the first session if ART is working for you because most people feel noticeably different before they leave.
About Allyson Clemmons, LICSW
Boston Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapist
My specialization in partner betrayal trauma emerged from years of treating infidelity as a couples therapist. While couples work was essential for the relationship, I noticed betrayed partners also needed specialized individual therapy that wasn’t available. They would only find generic trauma treatment that kept them talking in circles for months, while their nervous systems remained hijacked by the betrayal.
I noticed that partner betrayal creates a specific type of trauma that requires targeted treatment. Whether it’s infidelity, family betrayal, or professional betrayal, the neurological impact is profound, and it doesn’t resolve through insight or understanding alone.
Now I exclusively use Accelerated Resolution Therapy to help people move from obsessive investigating and constant triggering to genuine peace in just 1-5 sessions. You don’t need to manage partner betrayal trauma indefinitely. You can actually be free from it.
Independently licensed in Massachusetts, LICSW #126480
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