
Trauma Therapy for Boston Medical Providers
Resolve Medical Trauma in 1-5 Sessions
For Boston-area physicians, nurses, & other medical Providers…
There Are Some Cases That Follow You Home…
You did everything right: textbook technique, flawless decisions. But the 34-year-old father of two still died on your table, and his wife’s scream replays in your mind every day.
Or maybe it was that medication error. You caught it, the patient survived...but you can’t stop seeing their face turn blue.
Somewhere along the way, these experiences stopped being just “difficult cases.” They’ve rewired your nervous system.
At work, you step into the trauma bay and smell blood from the motorcycle accident three months ago, your hands trembling before you even see the patient.
At home, you pour that second or third glass of wine to quiet the thoughts and images. You lie awake with 3am replays of monitors going flat.
Your colleagues are starting to notice that you have become more withdrawn, less quick with clinical insights, and people are asking if you’re okay.
You’ve tried the typical approaches to feel Better…
You've tried talk therapy, spending months rehashing details that only made memories more vivid.
Medication helped with sleep but didn't touch the flashbacks.
Time off felt helpful… until everything flooded back the moment you returned to the hospital.
…but here’s the problem: Traditional approaches treat medical trauma like it’s a thinking problem that can be solved with logic, time, or medication adjustments.
Trauma gets stored in the primitive parts of your brain: areas that don’t respond to rational thought or willpower. Your amygdala doesn't care that you have an MD or understand PTSD pathophysiology. When triggered, your prefrontal cortex goes offline and you're operating from survival mode. While medication can help stabilize your nervous system, traditional approaches often can't fully process and resolve the traumatic imprints that keep keep triggering you.
This is where Accelerated Resolution Therapy comes in.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy: 1-5 Sessions for Trauma Relief Instead of 6-12+ Months…
Think of your brain like your hospital’s filing system. Most memories get filed like routine patient charts: organized, accessible when needed, properly filed away when done.
Traumatic memories get filed like emergency alerts that stay active, constantly flagged as urgent and triggered by sounds, smells, or situations that pull your attention from current patients.
ART works like a comprehensive chart review and proper refiling system. Your brain reprocesses traumatic memories and files them as completed cases from your past, not ongoing emergencies.
You retain all the facts and clinical learning from these cases, but they stop hijacking your nervous system during patient care.
ART works better for medical professionals because it’s remarkably fast, requiring only 1-5 sessions instead of months or years.
It's also completely private: you don't have to describe the details if you don't want to. The process is structured and predictable with a clear protocol, and it keeps your medical knowledge intact while removing the emotional charge.
Your Professional Experience Can Change After Just a Couple of Sessions…
After ART sessions, many healthcare workers report changes like:
Instead of avoiding the trauma bay, you’ll walk in focused on the patient in front of you — not the ghost of the patient from six months ago. The smell of antiseptic will just be antiseptic again, not a trigger.
You’ll make clinical decisions based on current evidence and assessment — not through the filter of that case where everything went wrong despite doing all the right things. Your medical judgment will be sharp and confident again.
During codes, you’ll be fully present — leading the team with the clarity and decisive thinking that made you good at this job in the first place, instead of fighting flashbacks while trying to save someone’s life.
Sleep will return to being restorative — not interrupted by vivid replays of monitors flatlining or the sound of families receiving devastating news. You’ll wake up refreshed, not exhausted from processing trauma all night.
Family dinners will be about your family — not silent processing of hospital horrors. You’ll be mentally and emotionally available for the people you love, not trapped in your own head.
You’ll reconnect with why you chose medicine — finding meaning in patient care again instead of feeling like you’re just surviving each shift. The compassion that drew you to healthcare will feel natural, not forced.
ART doesn't erase your experiences or change who you are. You’ll always have the knowledge and the facts. ART simply helps your brain file those difficult memories in a way that doesn’t keep hurting you.

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Investment & Logistics
Sessions: $700 for 90 minutes | Timeline: 1-5 sessions | Format: 100% online
No insurance | Complete privacy
Trauma Therapy for Boston-Area HealthCare Workers: FAQs…
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Yes, all sessions are conducted via secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth. You can participate from your home, office, or any private location. Many Boston-area medical professionals prefer online sessions for complete privacy and convenience.
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I offer intensive treatment days where we complete all 3-5 sessions in one full day. This means you can heal from your trauma in a single day off, rather than trying to coordinate 5 weeks of appointments around your call schedule. This is perfect for busy medical professionals who want to participate in therapy without the scheduling hassle. Please contact me to set this up, as intensive days aren’t currently listed on my client-facing scheduling calendar.
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Nope! Online sessions mean you can access treatment whether you're in Back Bay, the suburbs, or even if you're covering shifts at different Boston-area hospitals, like
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Investment is $700 for 90-minute sessions. Most clients complete treatment in 1-5 sessions. No insurance claims or pre-authorizations required. I maintain confidential treatment records as required by law, but these are separate from your medical chart and won't appear in hospital or insurance systems.
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Online sessions provide complete privacy: no chance of running into colleagues in a waiting room or parking garage downtown.
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Extremely common. Boston's Level 1 trauma centers (Mass General, Brigham, Boston Medical Center) see some of the most severe cases in New England. With our high concentration of teaching hospitals, residents and fellows are particularly at risk. Studies show 22% of surgical residents screen positive for PTSD.
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Boston has one of the highest overdose rates in the country. Healthcare workers here are experiencing repeated exposure to overdose deaths, which creates cumulative trauma. ART is particularly effective for this type of repeated traumatic exposure.
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Boston's medical community is small and interconnected. Online sessions ensure complete privacy: no risk of being seen entering a therapy office near the hospital district or medical area.
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Yes, many Boston healthcare workers were directly involved in treating COVID-19 patients, Marathon bombing victims, or other mass casualty events. ART is specifically designed for these types of acute traumatic experiences.
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As long as you’re physically located in Massachusetts during our sessions, we can meet online. This works perfectly for those living in MetroWest, the North Shore, or anywhere in Massachusetts or neighboring states while working at Boston hospitals.
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ART works best when completed without interruption. I recommend scheduling intensive treatment days when you know you'll have uninterrupted time off, rather than trying to fit sessions around unpredictable call schedules. Please contact me to schedule this, as the intensive option is not listed on my client-facing scheduler.
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Boston healthcare workers have faced unprecedented trauma exposure in recent years. During COVID-19, Boston's major medical centers were overwhelmed with critically ill patients, forcing medical professionals to make impossible decisions about resource allocation while watching patients die alone without family present. Many healthcare workers experienced moral injury from being unable to provide the level of care they were trained to give. Combined with earlier trauma like treating Marathon bombing victims, Boston medical professionals often have layered trauma responses. ART's ability to process these complex, interconnected traumatic memories without requiring detailed verbal recounting is particularly valuable for healthcare workers dealing with multiple trauma exposures from different events.
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Boston's Level 1 trauma centers (Mass General, Brigham, Boston Medical Center) see some of the most severe cases in New England, and COVID-19 intensified this exposure dramatically. Healthcare workers here experienced not only the typical secondary trauma from violence and accidents, but also the unique trauma of losing colleagues to COVID, working with inadequate PPE, and being separated from their own families for months. Unlike traditional trauma therapy that requires 8-15 sessions over months, ART's 1-5 session approach allows Boston medical professionals to get rapid relief without lengthy treatment commitments that compete with demanding hospital schedules.
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Boston's medical community values evidence-based treatments with measurable outcomes. Healthcare workers appreciate ART's structured, protocol-driven approach that mirrors medical procedures they're familiar with, plus its foundation in neuroscience research conducted at institutions like Harvard Medical School. For Boston medical professionals managing demanding schedules while dealing with trauma exposure from both COVID-19 and routine medical cases, ART's efficiency is crucial—you can complete entire trauma treatment in the time it takes to get an initial appointment at traditional specialized programs like McLean Hospital or Mass General's PTSD clinic.
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Yes, I regularly work with physicians, nurses, and medical staff from Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Medical Center, Boston Children’s, and other Boston-area medical facilities. Many healthcare professionals from these institutions have found ART particularly effective for processing work-related trauma exposure.
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Yes, medical professionals at institutions like Tuft’s Medical, BIDMC, and Boston Medical Center often have unpredictable schedules. That's why I offer intensive ART sessions that can complete treatment in a single day, perfect for healthcare workers who work at Boston's major medical centers.
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I’m ALLYSON
Trauma Therapist for Boston Medical Providers
I’m not the type of therapist who believes you need to spend months or years in therapy to heal from medical trauma.
That’s why I offer Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to my clients who are healthcare workers.
ART is a refreshing alternative to traditional talk therapy — it is structured, focused, efficient, and designed to create meaningful change in just 1-5 sessions.
One thing that sets ART apart is its ability to resolve painful, upsetting experiences without requiring you to relive the experience or rehash the details. In other words, unlike in traditional talk therapy, you actually don’t have to talk about the experience at all (weird, right?).
By working with your brain's natural healing processes, you and I will address your painful emotions, images, sensations, and experiences — all while keeping you firmly anchored in the present. You’re in control every step of the way.
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