Freedom from partner betrayal in 1-5 sessions using Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Online Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapy in Quincy, MA
Online therapy in Quincy and throughout the South Shore for betrayal, affairs, and infidelity.
Expert Therapy for Partner Betrayal and Infidelity in Quincy and the South Shore
It might have started with a feeling you couldn’t name. Something was off; a shift in how they held their phone, a new password on the laptop, a story about work drinks that didn’t quite add up. You told yourself you were being paranoid. You wanted to be wrong.
But then you found the proof.
However the truth came out, the life you thought you were living: the family dinners, the weekend soccer games in Hingham, the plans you were making for the addition on the house, all of it feels like it was built on a lie.
And now you lie awake running through the timeline of your marriage, trying to figure out which memories were based in reality and which weren’t. The anniversary trip to the Vineyard… was that before or after it started? The night they came home late from the “work event” and kissed you on the forehead… where had they actually been?
Your brain does this on a loop, and no amount of telling yourself to stop actually stops it.
During the day, your body runs on adrenaline. Your stomach hasn’t felt normal in weeks. You’ve lost weight, or gained it, and you’re not sure which because you've stopped paying attention. The things you used to enjoy feel flat. Walking Wollaston Beach, Saturday mornings at the Hingham farmers market, even time with your kids; you’re going through the motions, but the joy has been replaced by a low hum of anxiety that never fully lifts.
I specialize in partner betrayal and infidelity, including sexual affairs, emotional affairs, and pornography betrayal. I offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to my Quincy and South Shore clients. ART is a rapid, evidence-based approach that resolves partner betrayal trauma in 1-5 sessions, not months or years of talk therapy.
Learn more about online partner betrayal trauma therapy by watching the video here…
How Partner Betrayal Trauma Changes After Our Work Together
Through our work together, the grip that betrayal has on your daily life releases. Not gradually over months, and not through coping strategies you have to remember to use. The trauma naturally resolves at its root, and your life opens back up. Here’s what that looks like:
Many of my clients who have experienced partner betrayal trauma describe their healing journey like this…
You sleep through the night, and mornings feel like mornings again. The 3am wake-ups stop, the nightmares stop, and you fall asleep at a normal hour and wake up without the immediate wave of sadness that’s been greeting you for weeks or months. Saturday morning, you make coffee and sit in the quiet, and it’s actually peaceful instead of a countdown to the next upsetting thought.
You’re present for your kids in a way you haven’t been. You help with homework without your mind splitting in half. You catch what they’re actually saying at dinner instead of nodding along while you mentally reconstruct your partner’s timeline. When your daughter asks you to watch her cartwheel for the tenth time at Pageant Field, you watch and you feel something. The flatness lifts, and the parts of your life that still matter start to feel like they matter again.
You make decisions about your future without trauma calling the shots. Whether you’re considering reconciliation, consulting with an attorney, or figuring out what a separation would look like financially, you can think it through clearly. The fog of panic and reactivity clears, and you can weigh your options based on what is best for you and your family.
You stop the detective work because you genuinely don’t need to investigate anymore. The compulsive checking drops away because the drive behind it is gone. You realize you went the whole weekend without looking at their phone, and it wasn’t effort. It just didn’t occur to you. The hours you spent investigating become hours you spend on things that move your life forward.
You can sit across from your partner and have a real conversation. Whether it’s about co-parenting logistics or working through the hard stuff with a couples therapist, you can be in the same room without your nervous system hijacking the interaction. You say what you mean. and you hear what they say. And afterward, you go about your evening instead of spending three hours dissecting every word.
Your body calms down. The constant knot in your stomach eases. Your jaw unclenches. The tension headaches that have become your daily companion start to fade. You take the kids to Nantasket Beach on a Saturday and realize you spent the whole afternoon in the sun without once spiraling into intrusive thoughts. Your body stops bracing because, neurologically, the emergency is over.
Places become just places again. You drive past the restaurant in Weymouth where they used to “meet a friend” and you don’t flinch. The route through Braintree you’ve been avoiding because it passes their office is just the fastest way to get where you’re going. The emotional charge attached to these places dissolves.
You have the bandwidth to deal with the practical stuff. If you’re navigating a separation, there’s paperwork, mediation or meetings with your attorney, financial decisions, conversations with family. All of it requires a clear head, and right now trauma is eating up the cognitive resources you need. After ART, you can actually sit down with the spreadsheet, read the custody agreement, and respond to your attorney’s email without falling apart in the process.
Your sense of self comes back. You remember that you're a competent, intelligent person who makes good decisions. The betrayal tried to rewrite that story, and for a while it succeeded. After ART, you look in the mirror and recognize yourself again.
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 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, mental health, and overall well-being.
Half-Day Intensive: $2,500
Up to 4 hours of focused treatment in a single session, plus follow-up check-ins at one week and 30 days. This is the format most betrayal trauma clients need. The extended time gives us room to work through everything without stopping mid-process.
For comparison: 6-12 months of weekly therapy runs $3,600–$12,000+, most of it spent processing the story of what happened rather than putting a stop to the nightmares, the anxiety, and the intrusive thoughts/images.
Not sure if ART is right for your situation?
Book a single session first ($500, 90 minutes). This isn’t a shortened version of treatment; it’s a chance to experience the process and make sure we’re a good fit before committing to the intensive. If you move forward, the $500 gets credited toward your intensive cost.
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Quincy & South Shore Area Coverage
I provide online partner betrayal trauma therapy to residents throughout Quincy, the South Shore, and Plymouth County, including:
Quincy • Braintree • Weymouth • Hingham • Cohasset • Scituate • Marshfield • Duxbury • Plymouth • Kingston • Pembroke • Hanover • Norwell • Rockland • Abington • Whitman • Hull • Milton • Randolph • Holbrook
Also offering partner betrayal trauma therapy in Boston and Cambridge.
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
South Shore 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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