Rapid trauma relief in 1-5 sessions using Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Online Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapy in Cambridge
Online therapy across Massachusetts for partner betrayal, including emotional and sexual affairs, pornography, and more.
Freedom From Partner Betrayal Trauma Starts Here
Maybe you discovered the affair through a receipt from the Charles Hotel. Or caught them in a lie about working late in Kendall. Perhaps it was a text that popped up while they were in the shower, or a credit card statement that didn’t add up.
Now you’re replaying every conversation, every trip, every late night at the office, trying to figure out what you missed. You’ve run the timeline a hundred times. You know exactly when it started, how long it lasted, what the lies were. And none of that knowledge has made you feel any better.
Understanding what happened doesn’t stop the intrusive images. It doesn’t help you sleep. It doesn’t stop your body from flooding with adrenaline every time their phone buzzes.
I use Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) with my Cambridge clients, an approach that brings full freedom from partner betrayal trauma in just 1-5 sessions.
You’re experiencing symptoms of partner betrayal trauma (also called post-infidelity stress disorder) like…
Intrusive thoughts — Images of what they did interrupt your work, your conversations, your attempts to fall asleep. You can’t focus on a grant proposal or a presentation because your brain keeps replaying the discovery.
Hypervigilance — Checking their location, their email, their LinkedIn connections. Screenshotting everything. You’ve become an investigator in your own relationship, and you can’t stop even when you want to.
Sleep disturbances — Lying awake at 2am running the timeline again, or waking up from dreams about them with the affair partner. You’re exhausted but your body won’t let you rest.
Emotional numbness — Going through the motions at work, unable to feel excitement about a paper acceptance or a funding win. Achievements that once mattered now feel hollow.
Panic responses — Heart racing when their phone buzzes, nausea before events where you have to act normal, physical dread when you pass the Charles Hotel or walk through Harvard Square.
Withdrawal from connection — You’ve pulled back from colleagues, friends, collaborations. Trusting anyone feels impossible when the person closest to you lied for months.
Physical symptoms — Headaches, stomach problems, jaw pain from clenching, shoulders permanently tensed.
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 panic hijacking your thinking. You’ll sleep through the night, focus on your work, and have difficult conversations without your nervous system taking over.
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 at 3am to check their phone. The nightmares stop. You wake up rested enough to actually function instead of running on cortisol and coffee.
You can focus on your work again — You finish the grant application, the code review, the quarterly report without intrusive images interrupting every ten minutes. Meetings are just meetings, not battles to keep your mind from spiraling.
Triggers stop triggering you — You walk through Kendall Square and only notice because the coffee is good. The Charles Hotel is just a building. These places become neutral facts, like knowing when they were constructed.
The detective work disappears — You forget their email password because you haven’t needed it in months. The urge to check their location, verify their calendar, cross-reference their story is simply gone. Not because you’re forcing yourself to trust, but because the compulsion isn’t there anymore.
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 about what happened, what you need, and what comes next, without your body flooding with adrenaline.
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 — That Central Square restaurant, the running path along the Charles, even Memorial Drive, they return to being locations, not scenes of the crime. You go where you want based on what sounds good, not what you’re trying to avoid.
Your instincts work accurately — Your gut responds to what’s happening right now, not to what happened six months ago. You can trust your own judgment again.
You think about the future — Planning a sabbatical, starting a new project, imagining next year. Your brain automatically orients forward because the past has finally become the past.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy: 1-5 Sessions for Freedom From Partner Betrayal Trauma…
What Makes ART Different From Other Approaches?
While traditional therapy focuses on talking through the betrayal and understanding it, ART targets the actual images, emotions, and sensations stored in your brain that keep triggering you. Using guided eye movements (similar to what your body naturally does during sleep), ART works directly to change how distressing memories are stored so they no longer trigger automatic physical and emotional reactions.
Think of it like reorganizing a filing system. Right now, betrayal-related memories are filed in your “immediate threat” folder, causing your nervous system to react as if danger is present every time those memories, images, or thoughts are accessed.
ART moves these memories into a different category: “past events that no longer require emergency response.” The facts remain the same, but your brain’s automatic reaction changes completely.
The neurological change is automatic. You don’t have to consciously work at it or maintain it. No “skills” or “tools” or daily practices required.
But Does It Really Work for Partner Betrayal? The Evidence Resoundingly Says Yes.
Your brain’s response to partner betrayal is a trauma response, and ART is designed to resolve trauma 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 energy managing symptoms and get back to your life.
Exceptional completion rates: 94% of people who start ART complete it, compared to ~60% for traditional talk therapy. People stick with ART because they can feel it working quickly, which is crucial.
Strong effect sizes: Studies on ART consistently show effect sizes 2-4 times stronger than traditional therapy. This is measurable, lasting change in how your brain and body respond to triggers.
It works for severe 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 resolve stubborn trauma responses, like those created by betrayal.
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $500.
The average treatment length is 3.7 sessions. This makes ART not only one of the most effective trauma treatments available, but also one of the most efficient.
Total cost of therapy for most clients: $500-$2,500
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
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Cambridge Area Coverage
I provide online partner betrayal trauma therapy to residents throughout Cambridge and the surrounding areas:
Harvard Square • Kendall Square • Porter Square • Central Square • Inman Square • North Cambridge • West Cambridge • East Cambridge • MIT • Cambridgeport • Somerville • Arlington • Belmont • Watertown
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
My specialization in partner betrayal trauma emerged from years of treating affairs 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. 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 resolve it.
Independently licensed in Massachusetts, LICSW #126480
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