Rapid relief in just 1-5 sessions.
Rapid Trauma Recovery
Experience the freedom of rapid trauma and PTSD recovery with Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), a proven treatment that works with your brain’s natural healing processes.
Online for teens & adults in Massachusetts, Washington State, & Oregon
Effective Online Trauma Therapy in Massachusetts, Washington State, and Oregon
As a licensed therapist specializing in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, I provide secure, online counseling to teen and adult clients located in Washington, Massachusetts, and Oregon.
You can access proven trauma treatment from the comfort and privacy of your home.
Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Tries to Forget
Trauma isn’t just in your head. When something overwhelming happens, your brain rewires itself to keep you safe. Think of it like your home security system getting stuck in alarm mode. The burglar left months ago, but your system keeps blaring because nobody showed it how to reset.
This is why you might jump when someone walks up behind you at the grocery store. Why your heart races when you smell cologne that reminds you of someone who hurt you. Why you check your partner’s phone while they’re in the shower, even though you hate yourself for it.
The statistics tell a story we see every day:
70% of people experience at least one significant trauma¹
40% of healthcare workers battle secondary trauma from witnessing others’ pain²
30-60% of people discovering an affair develop PTSD-like symptoms³
Your nervous system is doing exactly what it evolved to do, but it needs an update.
What you are experiencing…
Just a Few of the Trauma Responses We’ll Work On Together…
The Constant Alert System — You scan every room for exits. Check your rearview mirror more than necessary. Your shoulders live somewhere near your ears. Friends say you're “intense” or “always on.” You wake from nightmares with a jolt.
The Emotional Disconnect — You watch your life like it’s a movie. Sometimes you look in the mirror and don’t recognize yourself. During arguments, you float somewhere near the ceiling, watching yourself go through the motions. People say you seem “checked out” or “somewhere else.”
The Anger That Surprises You — Small things set you off: a slow driver, a changed plan, someone standing too close. You go from zero to enraged faster than you can think. Later, you wonder who that angry person was.
The Invisible Walls — You cancel plans. Take the long route to avoid that intersection. You say you’re “not ready” for relationships. You build a life that’s safe but small, like living in a bunker but the war ended years ago.
The People-Pleasing Survival Mode — You apologize for existing. Say yes when you mean no. Scan faces obsessively for signs of displeasure. Give until you’re empty because keeping others happy feels like the only way to stay safe.
The Body That Won’t Forget — Your stomach clenches when you hear that sound. Migraines show up regularly. Your jaw aches from grinding your teeth while you sleep. You get sick every time you finally take a vacation. Your body keeps the score, even when your mind tries to move on.
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…
Your body calms down — That constant knot between your shoulder blades finally releases. You sleep past 3am without jolting awake, heart pounding. Your digestive system starts working normally again—no more stress stomachaches before work. The exhaustion lifts when you're not burning energy on constant alertness. Your hands stop shaking. Your breathing deepens. That feeling of being "wired but tired" disappears.
Your relationships breathe again — You stop snapping at people who stand too close in line. Conversations happen without you mentally checking out halfway through. You can accept a compliment without wondering what they really want. Hugs feel like comfort instead of confinement. You’re present for the people you love instead of physically there but mentally scanning for danger. Arguments become discussions, not battles for survival.
You get your time and energy back — Mornings start with coffee, not dread. The commute becomes just driving, not white-knuckling through flashbacks. You finish tasks without losing two hours to mental loops. Grocery shopping takes 20 minutes instead of an hour of avoidance strategies. Evenings open up for actual rest when you're not managing racing thoughts. Weekends become restorative instead of recovery from the week’s hyper-awareness of potential danger.
Your world reopens — You stop declining invitations. The elevator becomes just a metal box that moves, not a trap. Crowded places become inconvenient, not impossible. You book the medical appointment you've postponed for two years. Take the direct route instead of the "safe" one. Say yes to opportunities without running worst-case scenarios. Your comfort zone expands from your house to your actual life.
You trust yourself again — You stop Googling “signs someone is lying” at 2am. When your gut says something’s off on a date, you trust it without spending three days analyzing whether you’re “overreacting.” You choose the restaurant you actually want, not the one with the clearest exit. You make decisions in minutes instead of days: which job to take, whether to go to the party, if you should speak up in the conversation. When someone asks “What do you think?” you have an answer that isn’t “I don't know” or “Whatever you want.” You stop asking three friends to confirm your outfit looks normal. You believe your own memory of events without needing witnesses. You know when you’re truly tired versus when you’re avoiding something. You can tell the difference between “this person reminds me of someone dangerous" and "this person IS dangerous.”
Process Upsetting Memories Without Reliving Them in Detail
Introducing Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): The Trauma Treatment That Works as Fast as Trauma Happened
Remember how quickly your brain learned to fear? ART helps it learn safety just as fast.
Here’s what makes ART different from talking about your trauma for months or years:
Speed and efficiency that matches your life — Most clients see significant relief in 1-5 sessions. Not 1-5 months. 1-5 sessions. Imagine coming to your first appointment on Monday and feeling different by Friday.
Privacy and discretion — You don’t have to describe the painful details. Keep the parts that feel too raw to share. Your brain knows what happened; we just help it file the memory differently.
Impressive research findings —
94% of people complete ART treatment (compared to 60% for traditional therapy)⁴
Veterans with combat PTSD: 61% showed major improvement⁵
Effect sizes 2-4 times stronger than traditional therapy (1.12 to 3.28 for the research-minded)⁶ — traditional evidence-based therapy scores around 0.8 (which is considered good)
Healing through ART is like the difference between looking at an old photo versus being trapped inside it.
How your brain heals itself (with a little guidance)…
Step 1: Choose Your Target — Pick a specific memory or feeling. The car accident. The diagnosis. The moment you found those texts.
Step 2: Follow the Movement — Hold the memory during bilateral stimulation, like watching scenery from a train window while your brain sorts through its filing system.
Step 3: Rewrite the Ending — Choose new images to replace the painful ones. Your brain keeps the facts but drops the electric charge.
What Research Shows About ART’s Effectiveness:
The Evidence is Clear: ART Creates Profound Change
Military Veterans Study (2013)⁷ — A randomized controlled trial with combat veterans showed 61% response rate for PTSD symptoms. These are veterans who often struggle with traditional therapies, yet over half experienced significant improvement with ART.
Complicated Grief Research (2021)⁸ — Effect sizes reached 2.13 for PTSD symptoms and 1.79 for grief symptoms. To put this in perspective, an effect size over 0.8 is considered “large.” ART’s numbers are extraordinary.
Treatment Completion Rates⁹ — 94% of clients complete ART treatment. Compare this to 60-65% completion rates for traditional PTSD therapies. People stick with ART because they feel better quickly.
Recent Cancer Survivor Study (2024)¹⁰ — Preliminary results show promising outcomes for medical trauma, expanding ART’s applications beyond traditional PTSD.
Systematic Review Findings¹¹ — Across multiple studies, ART consistently shows effect sizes ranging from 1.12 to 3.28; results so strong that researchers double-check their calculations.
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $700.
While this is a significant investment, the average ART 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, saving you both time and financial resources in the long run.
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
Who ART Helps:
Specific Conditions I Treat
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Finding out about an affair feels like discovering your whole life was built on quicksand. You play detective with their phone at 3 AM, even though you hate who you've become. Every "working late" text makes your stomach drop. You see them with that person in your mind, over and over, like a Netflix show you can't stop watching. Trust feels impossible; not just with them, but with yourself. How did you not see it? You question every memory, wondering what was real and what was performance. It's grief, but worse, because the person you'd normally turn to for comfort is the one who caused the pain.
More about betrayal trauma recovery.
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You became a nurse or doctor to help people. Now you dread walking into the hospital. You've held too many hands of dying patients, made too many impossible decisions with too few resources. Their faces follow you home. You dream about code blues and beeping monitors. That patient who didn't make it? You still wonder if you could've done something different. You've used up all your compassion at work and have nothing left for your own family. You cry in your car after shifts or feel absolutely nothing at all. The hero everyone calls you feels like a costume you can't take off.
More about healthcare worker burnout, secondary trauma, and compassion fatigue here.
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That first drink quiets the noise in your head. Those pills make you stop feeling like your skin's on too tight. For a few hours, you're not drowning in memories or anxiety or rage. But now you need three drinks to feel what one used to do. You promise yourself "never again" every Sunday, but Tuesday comes and your hands shake, your thoughts race, and the only thing that helps is the thing that's destroying you. Your brain found a solution to unbearable pain. It's just that this solution is killing you faster than the pain was.
More about substance use treatment here.
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Your world shrinks as fear decides where you can and cannot go:
Spiders/Snakes: Your whole body locks up at a tiny house spider. Garden snake on TV? Heart races like you're being chased.
Flying: Feels like volunteering to die. You grip armrests, analyze every sound, count minutes until landing.
Medical/Dental: The dentist's office smell makes you nauseous. You've canceled three cleanings. Rather suffer tooth pain than face that chair.
Leaving Home: The whole world outside your door feels full of invisible threats. Grocery stores, malls, crowds become nightmares.
Social Situations: Work meetings feel like performing naked. You rehearse ordering coffee ten times. Eat lunch in your car to avoid the break room.
Your brain doesn’t care that logic says you’re safe. It remembers danger and refuses to forget.
More about phobia treatment here.
Together, we’ll update your nervous system from crisis mode to present day
Your Path From Surviving to Living Starts Here
1. Schedule Your First Session — Book your 90-minute ART session online here. We’ll meet via secure video from wherever you feel comfortable.
2. Targeted Relief — We’ll focus on one specific memory or pattern. Most people feel different before the session even ends.
3. Freedom to Choose Your Life — Stop organizing your days around avoiding triggers. Make decisions based on what you deeply care about, not your fears. Feel emotions without drowning. Trust your body again.
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 helping people who have tried multiple approaches but aren’t finding lasting change. Using ART's bilateral eye movements (similar to what happens naturally during REM sleep) we’ll work directly with how traumatic memories are stored in your brain. Most clients experience their breakthrough in 1-5 sessions instead of months or years.
If you’ve hit a wall with other approaches and want freedom from symptoms (not just management), you’re exactly who I work with.
Licensed in Massachusetts, Washington State, & Oregon
100% Online
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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Yes! I am fully licensed to provide online therapy to residents of:
Washington (Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker)
Massachusetts (Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker)
Oregon (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
My practice is 100% online via a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. This allows me to serve clients across these states conveniently and effectively.
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My fee is $700 for a 90-minute ART session. For ART intensives (4+ hours in one day), please see the fees page for pricing options.
While ART sessions are a significant investment, most clients achieve their goals in just 1-5 sessions. This makes ART not only one of the most effective trauma treatments available but also one of the most efficient, saving you both time and financial resources in the long run.
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Most issues are resolved in just 1-5 sessions, depending on complexity. Simple issues like needle phobia or a single traumatic incident typically only need 1 session, while complex PTSD, social phobia, or OCD may take 4-5 sessions. Each session is 90 minutes long, and we'll typically meet weekly to start. For faster results, ART intensives let you complete treatment in a single day or weekend.
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No, I am not in network with any insurance company.
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Yes, but insurance reimbursement varies significantly by plan, and my 90-minute sessions may not fit standard insurance expectations (typically 53 minutes). You pay at the time of service, and my system will email you a Superbill monthly by request.
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Payment is required at booking to hold your spot. For additional sessions, your card will be automatically charged within 24 hours before the appointment. Credit cards are securely stored in your private client chart.
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I see ART clients on Thursdays from 6am to 4pm Pacific Time. Additional options open as available.
ART sessions can be scheduled outside normal Thursday hours with 2 weeks' notice. Please contact me to arrange that.
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Once you schedule a session, I'll send new client forms from my electronic record system (not my email). You must review and digitally sign them at least 72 hours before your appointment to avoid auto-cancellation. If you don't receive forms, email allyson@allysonclemmonslicsw.com.
Contact Me or Self-Schedule Your ART Session Below…
If you already know you would like to get scheduled, please do so using the button below. No need to contact me first unless you want to.
The link will take you to my secure, HIPAA-compliant scheduling tool where you can choose a day and time and pay for your session to reserve it. Within 24 hours, you’ll receive an email invitation to complete your new client forms. Then we’ll meet on your scheduled day!
For questions, please contact me using the form below
1 World Health Organization. "Post-traumatic stress disorder." WHO Fact Sheet, 2024.
2 Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout in Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 Outbreak. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021.
3 Roos et al. "Post-traumatic stress and psychological health following infidelity in unmarried young adults." Stress & Health, 2019.
4 Kip et al. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy for treatment of pain secondary to symptoms of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder." European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014.
5 Kip et al. "Randomized controlled trial of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) for symptoms of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)." Military Medicine, 2013.
6 Multiple studies systematic review. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy: A systematic review of effectiveness and mechanisms." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2024.
7 Kip et al. "Randomized controlled trial of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) for symptoms of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder." Military Medicine, 2013.
8 Buck et al. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Complicated Grief Intervention." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2021.
9 International Society of Accelerated Resolution Therapy. "Research and Evidence Base in ART." 2024.
10 "Accelerated Resolution Therapy for Cancer Distress and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms: Results of a Pilot Study." PubMed, 2024.
11 Multiple studies systematic review. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy effectiveness across populations." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2024.
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