Allyson Clemmons

LICSW, LCSW

I'm not the type of therapist who believes you need to spend months or years in therapy to experience deep healing and long-lasting change. After 15 years of practicing traditional talk therapy, I found something that changed everything I thought I knew about healing from trauma. For years, I watched my brilliant, insightful, and motivated clients make some progress in talk therapy... only to hit an invisible wall. They would talk through their trauma, practice the coping skills, and gain insights…but then plateau. The nightmares persisted. The triggers remained. The past kept intruding in their daily life. I felt it in my own healing journey, too. Then I discovered Accelerated Resolution Therapy. Not to sound cliche, but everything changed. I realized the reason we were all hitting that wall: talk therapy works with thoughts, logic, and insights, but trauma lives in the nervous system. I don't believe therapy should take forever. I believe there's a difference between managing symptoms and being free from them. Now, clients with similar experiences - people who have tried multiple approaches but weren't getting the long-term change they were looking for - are experiencing that much-needed breakthrough in 1-5 sessions instead of years.