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 Anywhere 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
Your brain did exactly what it was supposed to do when the traumatic thing happened: it learned, it adapted, and it created a threat detection system designed to keep you safe.
The problem is that the system hasn’t updated, so you’re still reacting to danger that isn’t there anymore.
You can understand what happened, analyze why you feel this way, know rationally that you’re safe, and still have your body respond like the threat is happening right now. That’s not a failure of logic, willpower, or insight; that’s your nervous system operating on outdated information.
Traditional therapy helps you understand the trauma, but ART helps your brain release it. Most people who work with me have already done months or years of talk therapy, they've gained valuable insight and perspective, but the visceral reaction is still there. They’re tired of managing symptoms and ready to resolve them.
Research shows that 30-60% of people who discover a partner’s affair develop full PTSD symptoms, and those symptoms don’t just fade with time or understanding. Medical trauma, accident-related fear responses, and phobias (like the fear of flying) operate the same way: your brain flags something as dangerous and keeps treating it that way, no matter how much you talk about it.
The difference with ART is speed and completeness. We’re not teaching you to cope with triggers; we’re eliminating them. Most clients complete treatment in 1-5 sessions, and when I say “complete,” I mean you’re not managing the reaction anymore, you’re past it.
What you are experiencing…
There’s a gap between the life you’re living and the one you’d choose if fear weren’t in the way…
The Intrusive Replays — The images show up uninvited: in the middle of a work meeting, during dinner, right before sleep. Sometimes it’s a memory, sometimes it's your brain catastrophizing what could happen, but either way, you can't unsee it or unfeel it. Your mind loops the same scene, the same fear, the same moment, even though you’d give a limb to think about anything else.
Your Body’s Veto — Your heart starts racing before your brain catches up, stomach drops, hands shake, throat tightens. Your body decides you’re in danger at the doctor’s office, in the passenger seat, when your partner reaches for you, or driving to the airport. Logic says you’re safe, but your nervous system doesn’t believe it. You're fighting your own physiology, and your body keeps winning.
The Avoidance Tax — Your avoidance strategies are creative. You take a different route to work, make excuses for why you can’t travel, cancel the appointment again, have another drink not to feel it, and keep your partner at arm’s length. You look around and realize how much of your life you’ve rearranged to avoid fear and anxiety. The world got smaller while you were trying to stay safe.
The Failed Fixes — You’ve tried to reason your way out, talked about it in therapy for months, understood it completely, and still felt it entirely. You read the books, did the breathing exercises, white-knuckled your way through, and called it progress. Maybe it helped a little, maybe it didn’t help at all. You’re functional, capable, intelligent, and yet none of that matters when the trigger hits.
The Frustration With Yourself — You know it doesn’t make sense, you know the flight is statistically safe, that your partner’s late text isn't proof of anything, that the medical procedure is necessary, that one mistake years ago doesn’t define you. But knowing doesn’t help. You’re exhausted from managing something that shouldn’t still have this much power. You've been patient with the process, gentle with yourself, and willing to do the work. At some point, you just want the fear gone.
Your Life on Hold — Career opportunities you’ve turned down because they require travel, relationships you’ve kept surface-level, medical care you’ve deferred, decisions you can’t make because this one thing still has a grip on you.
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 fear choosing it for you.
What changes after our work together…
The first thing people notice is physical: that chronic tension in your chest eases, you sleep through the night without your mind spinning through scenarios, and your stomach stops clenching when you see the reminder.
Your body finally gets the message that the threat has passed, or in the case of phobias, that there was never actually a threat to begin with. You’re no longer constantly braced for impact.
When your nervous system stops firing the alarm for this one specific thing, you get your mental bandwidth back. The intrusive thoughts quiet down, the mental rehearsals stop, and suddenly you have the capacity for what matters. You’re not spending half your energy managing your reaction or avoiding a trigger.
At work:
You accept the position that requires travel instead of declining before they finish the offer
You schedule the surgery you've been putting off, so that you can perform at your job
You speak up in meetings or on group Zoom calls without your heart pounding, and make decisions without second-guessing yourself into paralysis
The career move you’ve been “not ready for” becomes an option because the fear that was blocking you isn’t blocking you anymore
In relationships:
Intimacy with your partner becomes about connection instead of intrusive images or hypervigilance
You can have difficult conversations without your body treating them like interrogations
Trust becomes something you can extend again, not because you’re forcing yourself to, but because your nervous system isn’t screaming danger at every ambiguous text or late arrival
The walls you built to feel safe come down because you don’t need them anymore
In daily life:
You book the flight for the family wedding, the work conference, the vacation you’ve been avoiding
You go to the doctor when something’s wrong instead of when it becomes an emergency
Medical procedures happen when they’re scheduled, not after months of rescheduling and white-knuckling your way there
You stop organizing your entire life around avoiding one specific thing
The part that’s harder to describe but maybe matters most: you trust your own judgment again.
When something feels off, you can assess whether that’s your gut telling you something real or your nervous system misfiring. You know the difference between “this person is giving me bad vibes” and “this person reminds me of someone who hurt me.” You make decisions, ie, which job, whether to stay, if you should speak up, without needing three outside opinions to confirm what you already know.
The specific thing that’s been running your life in the background stops running it. You’re not managing symptoms or developing coping strategies or learning to live with it.
You’re truly past it, so you can get on with whatever you were trying to do before this got in the way.
Process Upsetting Memories Without Reliving Them in Detail
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 — Pick a specific memory or feeling. The car accident, the diagnosis, or the moment you found those texts. For anxiety, you can choose something in the future.
Step 2 — Hold the memory during bilateral stimulation, like watching scenery from a train window while your brain sorts through its filing system.
Step 3 — Choose new images to replace the painful ones. Your brain keeps the facts but drops the emotional 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 (remember, 0.8 is considered “good”).
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $500.
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.
Who ART Helps:
Specific Conditions I Treat
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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. The worst part is the person you would normally turn to for comfort is the one who caused this pain.
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You know statistically you’re safe; you’ve read all the reassurances; you’ve tried exposure therapy, apps, and breathing exercises. But logic and reason don’t help. Your body decides you’re in danger, and no amount of reasoning changes that response. The phobia and fear have cost you opportunities, health decisions, and experiences you wanted.
Learn more about resolving flight fear in as little as one session here.
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You started using because it worked. A drink took the edge off, pills helped you sleep without nightmares, weed quieted anxious thoughts. Then you needed more to get the same relief. You’ve tried to cut back, made rules, gone weeks without it, but something pulls you back. There’s a feeling underneath, anxiety, grief, anger, emptiness, and the substance is the only thing that makes it tolerable. You’re functional, but you know this isn’t sustainable. You’re using to avoid something, and whatever you’re avoiding hasn’t gone away.
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Whether you’re avoiding driving, can’t tolerate medical settings, or you’re reliving the incident constantly, the trauma can be reprocessed so that it’s not triggering you. You can return to work, get behind the wheel again, receive the medical care you need, and make decisions without fear controlling every choice.
Learn more about PTSD treatment for accidents, injuries, and medical complications 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 a specific memory or emotion. 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 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 $500 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.
Get in touch
Contact or Self-Schedule 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!
Have questions before scheduling?
Use this form to ask about whether ART is right for your situation, how the process works, or anything else you’d like to know. I typically respond within 24-48 hours.
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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