Online Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapy Across Washington State
Betrayal Trauma Therapy in Washington State
Freedom From Partner Betrayal Trauma and Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder, Anywhere in Washington
The Bainbridge ferry used to mean weekend adventures, just the two of you. Now it’s where you found out about the affair.
You used to love hiking the North Cascades trail every summer. Now you look at the pictures and wonder if the affair had already started.
Pike Place on a Saturday morning was your thing together; now you wonder if they were texting the other person while you picked out flowers.
Partner betrayal doesn’t just live in your head. It gets into the landscape. It rewrites the history of your relationship and makes you wonder if any of it was real, or if you were living in The Truman Show.
I specialize in partner betrayal using Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), an eye-movement trauma treatment that helps my betrayed clients across Washington get their lives back after infidelity, affairs, or partner deception.
Whether you’re in a Seattle high-rise, a Spokane suburb, or somewhere in the San Juans, we can work together. No fighting I-5 traffic, circling for parking downtown, or awkward waiting rooms where you might run into someone you know.
How Betrayal Trauma Changes After Our Work Together
After 1-5 sessions, clients describe changes like these:
You take the scenic route through Snoqualmie because it’s beautiful, not because you’re testing whether you can handle it
You book the cabin on the Olympic Peninsula without running mental calculations about whether you’ll be triggered the whole trip
You sit through a meeting in downtown Seattle without intrusive images hijacking your concentration
You make a decision about your marriage from clarity; whether that’s reconciliation or divorce, you’re choosing from solid ground
The compulsive checking stops. Not because you’re white-knuckling it, but because the anxiety driving it is gone. You still ask your partner for transparency; you just don’t need to verify their location every twenty minutes to get through the day.
More about what changes after partner betrayal trauma therapy.
Process Upsetting Memories Without Reliving Them in Detail
Here’s what makes ART different from talking about betrayal trauma for 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)¹
Veterans with combat PTSD: 61% showed major improvement²
Effect sizes 2-4 times stronger than traditional therapy (1.12 to 3.28 for the research-minded)³ — traditional evidence-based therapy scores around 0.8 (which is considered good)
Maybe the most important — ART provides healing from betrayal trauma at a level of completeness that talk therapy (and even EMDR) can’t provide
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, or the moment you found those texts.
Step 2: Follow the Movement — Hold the thought or 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 emotional charge.
The Evidence is Clear: ART Creates Profound Change
What Research Shows About ART’s Effectiveness
Military Veterans Study (2013)² — A randomized controlled trial with combat veterans showed a 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)⁵ — 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 Rates⁶ — 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)⁷ — Preliminary results show promising outcomes for medical trauma, expanding ART’s applications beyond traditional PTSD.
Systematic Review Findings⁸ — Across multiple studies, ART consistently shows effect sizes ranging from 1.12 to 3.28.
A 90-minute Accelerated Resolution Therapy session is $500.
ART sessions are $500 per session. Each session runs as long as needed to complete the protocol, typically 60-90 minutes. The average length of treatment is 3-4 sessions for most issues.
Total investment for most clients: $500-$2,500.
ART is an investment in your freedom and well-being.
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Online Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapy in Washington State
Seattle • Bellevue • Tacoma • Redmond • Kirkland • Kent • Renton • Federal Way • Everett • Spokane • Olympia • Vancouver • Bellingham • Tri-Cities • Richland • Yakima • Wenatchee • And throughout Washington
About Allyson Clemmons, LICSW
Washington Partner Betrayal Trauma Therapist
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 be free from it.
Licensed Clinical Independent Social Worker in Washington
LICSW #LW61398886 (Verify LICSW license online)
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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!
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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 business hours.
Sources
- Kip et al. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy for treatment of pain secondary to symptoms of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder." European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2014.
- Kip et al. "Randomized controlled trial of accelerated resolution therapy (ART) for symptoms of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)." Military Medicine, 2013.
- Multiple studies systematic review. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy: A systematic review of effectiveness and mechanisms." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2024.
- Buck et al. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Complicated Grief Intervention." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2021.
- International Society of Accelerated Resolution Therapy. "Research and Evidence Base in ART." 2024.
- "Accelerated Resolution Therapy for Cancer Distress and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms: Results of a Pilot Study." PubMed, 2024.
- Multiple studies systematic review. "Accelerated Resolution Therapy effectiveness across populations." Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2024.
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