Trauma Therapy for Seattle Medical Providers
Resolve Medical Trauma in 1-5 Sessions
For SEATTLE-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Your colleagues are starting to notice that you have become more withdrawn, less quick with clinical insights, and people are asking if you’re okay.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 Seattle-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 Seattle-area medical professionals prefer online sessions for complete privacy and convenience, especially when working at multiple UW Medicine locations or dealing with Seattle's notorious traffic between shifts.
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I offer intensive treatment days where we complete all 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 at UW Medicine, Harborview, or other Seattle hospitals.
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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Absolutely! Online sessions mean you can access treatment whether you're in downtown Seattle, the Eastside, or even if you're covering shifts at different Seattle-area hospitals like UW Medical Center, Harborview, Swedish, or Virginia Mason. No need to worry about commuting across the city for appointments.
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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 UW Medicine systems.
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Online sessions provide complete privacy: no chance of running into colleagues in a waiting room or parking garage in the Seattle medical district. This is particularly important given Seattle's tight-knit medical community and interconnected hospital systems.
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Extremely common. Seattle’s major trauma centers, particularly Harborview Medical Center (one of the busiest Level 1 trauma centers in the nation serving the entire Pacific Northwest), see some of the most severe cases in the region. UW Medicine's teaching hospital environment means residents and fellows face particularly intense exposure to trauma cases while under enormous educational pressure. Studies show 22% of surgical residents screen positive for PTSD.
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Seattle's position as the regional trauma hub for the Pacific Northwest means medical professionals here experience unprecedented trauma exposure. Harborview Medical Center alone treats over 2,500 trauma patients annually, with many cases involving severe violence, overdoses, and accidents from across Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Healthcare workers here experience not only typical secondary trauma from violence and accidents, but also the unique stress of treating patients transported from remote locations where they're the last hope for survival. Unlike traditional trauma therapy that requires 8-15 sessions over months, ART's 1-5 session approach allows Seattle medical professionals to get rapid relief without lengthy treatment commitments that compete with demanding hospital schedules.
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Seattle's medical community values evidence-based treatments with measurable outcomes — exactly what ART provides. 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 UW School of Medicine. For Seattle medical professionals managing demanding schedules while dealing with trauma exposure from both routine cases and mass casualty events, 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.
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Yes, I regularly work with physicians, nurses, and medical staff from UW Medicine (including Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center), Seattle Children's Hospital, Swedish Medical Center, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and other Seattle-area medical facilities. Many healthcare professionals from these institutions have found ART particularly effective for processing work-related trauma exposure from Seattle's high-acuity medical environment.
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Yes, medical professionals at institutions like UW Medicine, Swedish Medical Center, and Seattle Children's often have unpredictable schedules, especially those working at Harborview's 24/7 trauma center. That's why I offer intensive ART sessions that can complete treatment in a single day, perfect for healthcare workers at Seattle's major medical centers who need efficient, effective trauma resolution that works around call schedules and shift rotations.
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Seattle healthcare workers face distinctive trauma exposure due to the city's role as the Pacific Northwest's medical hub. Beyond typical urban medical trauma, Seattle medical professionals regularly treat victims of wilderness accidents, severe weather emergencies, and complex cases transferred from remote areas. The psychological burden of being the final referral center for critically injured patients from across the region creates unique moral injury and secondary trauma. ART's ability to process these complex, interconnected traumatic memories without requiring detailed verbal recounting is particularly valuable for healthcare workers dealing with the weight of being “the last chance” for so many patients.
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UW Medicine's teaching environment creates additional trauma exposure for residents, fellows, and attendings who must maintain educational responsibilities while treating severely injured patients. The dual pressure of learning/teaching while managing life-and-death situations intensifies trauma responses. Research shows that academic medical centers like UW Medicine have higher rates of burnout and secondary trauma among staff. ART's rapid approach allows medical professionals to address trauma symptoms quickly without the lengthy time commitments that traditional therapy requires, making it ideal for those balancing patient care, education, and research responsibilities in Seattle's competitive academic medical environment.
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I’m ALLYSON
Trauma Therapist for Seattle 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.
