The Workplace Harassment Recovery Intensive
For Business Leaders Who Are Ready to Restore Their Leadership Edge After Workplace Harassment, Bullying, or Discrimination in as Little as One Day Using Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Serving professionals in all of Massachusetts, Washington, Oregon, and Florida
You Used to Own Every Room You Walked INto
Remember when you could walk into a negotiation and know, without a doubt, that you held the edge? When your presence alone could shift the dynamics of a boardroom? When your confidence wasn't something you projected, it was just who you were?
That executive who built this career — sharp, decisive, unshakeable — feels like a different person now.
That leader is still in you. But right now, they’re being silenced by the aftermath of harassment and discrimination.
Maybe it was the repeated undermining disguised as “feedback” or “jokes”
The promotion passed over with weak excuses
The harassment that HR minimized or dismissed entirely
The discrimination so subtle others called it “miscommunication”
What happened rewired something fundamental about how you show up professionally.
Now you’re living with the aftermath…
Your stomach tightens before entering the boardroom where you once thrived. You rehearse simple comments obsessively, then can’t seem to speak up without your voice shaking. The colleague who harassed you got promoted while you find excuses to avoid high-visibility projects. You catch yourself deferring to junior team members whose opinions you once would have respectfully challenged.
Meanwhile, everyone still sees you as the successful professional. They don’t see…
You lying awake replaying interactions, wondering if you're overreacting
The shame spiral after staying quiet when you should have spoken up
You declining opportunities that would normally excite you because the thought of increased visibility feels too risky
The worst part is you feel like you’re betraying the leader you worked so hard to become. The confidence that once felt natural now requires exhausting effort to mask. You're succeeding professionally while feeling like an imposter in your own career.
Harassment’s Impact on your Brain
If you’re a leader facing harassment at work, here's what you need to know: that "brain fog" you’re experiencing is real. Brain scans show workplace harassment actually shrinks your memory center by up to 15%, similar to early dementia. Your decision-making ability can drop by nearly half.
This explains why you:
Can't think as clearly as you used to
Feel exhausted even after rest
Second-guess decisions you would've made easily before
Feel like you're losing your edge
This Is Costing You More Than You May Have Realized
Beyond the daily struggle, harassment survivors lose an average of $1.3 million in lifetime earnings. You’re not imagining the impact: 69% of C-suite executives consider leaving their positions due to these exact symptoms.
What you're experiencing is as real as a concussion, except it's happening slowly, day by day.
Why You Haven't Been Able to “Just Get Over It”
Here’s the truth: your brain’s stress system is caught in overdrive, flooding your body with cortisol, a stress chemical that is toxic to brain cells when it stays elevated this long.
You can’t positive-think your way out of neurological damage any more than you could think your way out of a broken leg.
And that’s why the traditional approaches you’ve tried haven’t worked…
When facing this slow-motion trauma, most leaders try to cope on their own...
They use strategies that seem logical:
Executive coaching: Addresses symptoms (communication, confidence) without treating the underlying trauma responses that create the performance blocks.
HR solutions/legal action: Only 6-13% file formal complaints⁹ which often create a secondary layer of trauma: gaslighting, bureaucratic delays, and confidentiality agreements that silence you while doing nothing to repair the internal damage to your confidence.
Self-help approaches: Positive thinking, mindfulness apps, or resilience training that don’t address the neurobiological impact of discrimination or harassment.
“Just ignore it”: Your brain keeps scanning for threats whether you want it to or not. Ignoring harassment is like ignoring a broken bone: without treatment, it heals wrong.
Working harder: Trying to outwork the problem when your cognitive capacity is at 50% just accelerates burnout.
Confronting the harasser: Research shows this often backfires, triggering retaliation in toxic cultures.
“Toughing it out”: Performing "strong leader" while your brain takes ongoing damage just depletes your remaining resources.
Time: Hoping time heals, only to discover avoidance patterns have become entrenched habits.
These strategies fail because they treat harassment like a normal workplace challenge instead of the neurological emergency it actually is.
The Brain Can Heal (With the Right Help)
Here’s the hopeful news: your brain is designed to heal from this. The same neuroplasticity that allowed it to adapt to trauma also allows it to recover with the right intervention.¹³
Our intensive is designed to achieve the core neurological change needed to stop the past from hijacking the present.
While traditional talk therapy can take 12-16 weeks to show significant progress¹⁴, the targeted Accelerated Resolution Therapy protocol is designed to resolve the traumatic memories themselves in a single day.
Here’s how we approach it:
First, We Clear the Neurological Block: ART directly targets and reprocesses the specific memories of harassment, bullying, or discrimination that have created your reactive stress response. This calms the amygdala, brings your prefrontal cortex back online, and stops the constant mental replay. This is the essential foundation. You can’t build a stable house on a fractured foundation.
Then, We Assess Your Toolkit: Once the intense emotional charge is neutralized, we can clearly see what resources you already have and what you might need to add. Many clients find that with the trauma response cleared, their natural intelligence, strategic thinking, and ability to set boundaries return organically.
We Create a Real-World Plan for Sustainability: If you are returning to a challenging environment, we will discuss and strategize concrete, practical steps to protect your peace. For some clients, this is enough. For others whose situations are severely and continuously toxic, we may discuss a referral for ongoing coaching or therapy to build and practice those specific skills in a state of calm, not crisis.
The goal is to get you out of survival mode so you can make clear-eyed decisions about your next steps: whether that's navigating your current role with new resilience or confidently pursuing a new opportunity.
Why ART Works When Other Approaches Fall Short…
Unlike traditional approaches, ART processes traumatic workplace experiences rapidly while you maintain complete control over what you share (making it perfect for you if you’ve signed an NDA). You'll work with the images, sensations, and emotions connected to specific incidents, but the processing happens quickly and decisively, not through months of talk therapy.
How ART works: Using rapid eye movements similar to REM sleep, ART accesses the same natural process your brain uses to integrate experiences during sleep. The original memory remains intact, but the emotional charge and body sensations transform completely.
ART specifically resolves:
Constant alertness that leaves you mentally drained after every meeting
Scanning for danger that kicks in automatically around certain people or situations
Body tension that shows up during presentations or important negotiations
Racing thoughts that interfere when you need to focus on big decisions
ART allows you to process difficult experiences without having to verbally detail what happened. You maintain complete privacy and dignity.
Your Executive Presence Can Return Rapidly and Reliably…
Reclaim Your Voice In Every Meeting: Most clients report a noticeable shift within the first few days in how they approach workplace interactions. You may find yourself speaking up in Monday's leadership meeting without the usual internal debate. Your voice feels steadier, your posture more natural. When the CEO asks for opinions, the familiar hesitation is significantly reduced; you can access your strategic thinking without the emotional interference.
Take Charge In Workplace Negotiations: Many executives find themselves taking actions they’ve been avoiding. You might finally apply for that board position you bookmarked months ago. The anxious internal dialogue (“What if they ask about...”) loses much of its emotional charge. Contract negotiations feel more like the strategic discussions they used to be, rather than emotional minefields.
Project Authentic Confidence When Leading Projects and Presentations: Clients typically report volunteering for opportunities they’ve been avoiding. High-stakes presentations feel energizing rather than draining. Your mind operates with the clarity you remember, delivery feels sharp again. The calculated risk-taking that built your career often returns as the emotional barriers diminish.
Lead Without The Hidden Anxiety: Most executives report sustained confidence in leadership roles. You're likely to sleep better, approach work challenges with renewed energy rather than dread. The gap between your professional competence and internal confidence typically closes significantly.
The executive you always were can show up to work again. While individual results vary, most clients find they’re no longer performing confidence: they genuinely feel it. Instead of avoiding opportunities, they're actively pursuing them.
The Intensive Process…
Assessment (30-45 minutes):
Proprietary Executive Performance & Stress Assessment (EPSA) to identify specific workplace triggers and how they impact your work performance
Evaluation of current avoidance behaviors
Establish baseline measurements for post-intensive comparison
ART Intensive Session (5-7 hours):
Process the original harassment or discrimination experience using bilateral stimulation techniques
Reduce emotional reactivity to workplace scenarios that currently trigger hesitation
Help your brain reprocess the experience so it no longer interferes with current executive decisions
Address any related memories or triggers that emerge during processing
Integration and closure to ensure you feel grounded and confident before concluding
Investment
$5,000 for a one-day intensive
What’s included:
5-7-hour private intensive session
Follow-up at 30, 90, and 180 days to ensure sustained results
Complete confidentiality and privacy protection
For perspective: This investment equals roughly 2-3 months of traditional weekly therapy, but delivers complete resolution in one day. For executives, removing trauma-induced performance barriers typically pays for itself within months through restored confidence in negotiations, presentations, and strategic opportunities.
Ideal candidates for this intensive:
Senior executives, directors, or C-suite professionals
Corporate women who've experienced harassment affecting current performance
Black, Indigenous, and professionals of color facing racial discrimination and microaggressions
LGBTQ+ professionals navigating discrimination-related performance barriers
Executives with disabilities facing accessibility discrimination that impacts confidence
Business leaders who recognize past workplace trauma is limiting current advancement
Important note: If you are involved in active litigation or considering legal action related to your workplace situation, this intensive must be cleared with your legal counsel first. However, if you've already settled and signed an NDA, ART is ideal because you don't need to share specific details about what happened. The process works with your internal experience of images and sensations.
Your Nervous System Has Been in Survival Mode Long Enough.
It's Time to Reclaim Your Executive Edge.
Every day you wait, your brain strengthens the neural pathways that equate leadership with danger. The harassment happened in the past, but your brain relives it every time you walk into a boardroom, receive critical feedback, or navigate office politics.
This isn't weakness or oversensitivity. It's neurological damage that gets more entrenched with time.
Research shows harassment victims lose 48% of their executive function and up to $1.3 million in lifetime earnings. Without intervention at the brain level, most leaders stay trapped in protection mode for years; many never fully recovering their strategic thinking capacity.
But in just one day, ART can restore your brain's ability to distinguish between past trauma and present opportunity.
The Real Cost of Waiting
Right now, you're operating at half capacity when your role demands peak performance. It's not just the fog and fatigue. It’s also:
The promotion you're not pursuing because you can't trust your judgment
The strategic initiatives you're avoiding because confrontation triggers panic
The innovative ideas you're not voicing because microaggressions trained you to stay silent
The physical toll: chronic headaches, insomnia, that constant knot in your stomach
Every month you wait, these patterns strengthen. Research shows executives with unresolved workplace trauma are 2.5x more likely to burn out completely.
Investment: $5,000 for your complete intensive, including:
5-7 hour focused ART session targeting the specific harassment and/or discrimination experiences rewiring your threat detection system
30, 90, and 180-day follow-ups to ensure lasting neurological change
Complete confidentiality protecting your professional reputation
Apply for your intensive below.
I work with a select number of business leaders each month who are ready to stop letting yesterday's trauma dictate tomorrow's leadership.
This brief, confidential assessment ensures ART is the right neurological intervention for your specific situation.
Frequently asked questions
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This intensive is designed for senior executives, directors, C-suite professionals, and business leaders who have built impressive careers but find that past workplace harassment or discrimination is quietly undermining their current performance. You're likely a good candidate if you hold significant leadership responsibilities, have a strong track record of achievements, yet find yourself hesitating in situations where you once felt naturally confident: avoiding high-visibility opportunities, second-guessing your expertise in meetings, or feeling physically tense during workplace interactions that should feel routine.
ART is effective for processing specific incidents of workplace harassment, discrimination, or hostile treatment that continue to create performance barriers months or years later. Most clients experience meaningful shifts within the single intensive day, often reporting restored confidence in leadership situations they've been avoiding.
This approach works particularly well for analytical, results-oriented professionals who recognize that past workplace trauma is creating current limitations. You may have already tried executive coaching, changed companies, or hoped time would resolve the issue, but still experience the underlying hesitation and hyper-awareness that those approaches couldn't fully address. You want rapid, measurable results without months of traditional therapy.
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Executive coaching and career changes work at the surface level: they give you new strategies or environments. But workplace trauma responses aren't knowledge or location problems; they're neurological pattern problems. Your brain has learned to interpret certain workplace situations as threats based on past harassment or discrimination, triggering hyper-awareness and hesitation that override your rational mind. It's like trying to fix a hardware issue with software updates or expecting a new office to rewire your internal responses. ART works directly with your brain's threat-detection system to process and transform those traumatic workplace memories. You already have the executive skills and judgment; we're removing the internal interference that prevents you from accessing them consistently in situations that remind your nervous system of past workplace trauma.
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The bilateral eye movements help activate your brain's natural processing mechanisms while you focus on the memory. When you experience something profound, traumatic, or formative, your brain sometimes stores it in a way that keeps triggering present-day reactions. The eye movements, combined with guided visualization, help your brain reprocess and store the memory without the emotional charge that keeps it activated.
Think of it like helping your brain organize information more efficiently. The simplicity is actually the strength.
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Our intensive sessions offer complete privacy protection. They're conducted entirely remotely via secure video platform from your home office outside of work hours, with no one at your workplace knowing. Since I'm based in Mexico, there's no possibility of running into me in your local community.
Many executives frame this work as "leadership development" or "performance optimization" when discussing professional development with colleagues — which is technically accurate. The virtual format gives you complete control over your privacy while addressing what may be the final barrier to operating at your full executive potential.
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ART typically takes 1-5 sessions to achieve significant results — compared to 12-20 sessions for traditional therapy approaches. Our intensive format allows us to complete this work in one focused day with appropriate breaks.
The reason ART works efficiently is because it targets the specific upsetting memories and experiences, rather than spending months building coping strategies around them. ART uses bilateral eye movements (similar to what happens during REM sleep) combined with guided visualization to help your brain reprocess upsetting memories. This allows your nervous system to properly process and store these experiences so they stop triggering current-day stress responses.
Multiple clinical studies show 94% completion rates and sustained results at follow-up, because we're addressing how these memories are stored and processed, not just teaching you to manage around them.
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Your success comes from your intelligence, skills, and leadership abilities, not from being on high alert or avoiding.
The hesitation and internal tension are actually performance drains, not performance enhancers. Think about how much mental energy you currently spend scanning for threats in meetings, rehearsing simple comments, or avoiding high-visibility opportunities to avoid risk.
ART clients typically report increased efficiency, sharper decision-making, and clearer strategic thinking because they're no longer wasting cognitive resources on threat detection and self-protection. Your drive and ambition will remain; but they’ll be powered by natural confidence and clear judgment, rather than compensatory behaviors and hyper-awareness.
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No. ART works by processing the emotional charge of memories, not analyzing business decisions or strategies. You don't need to share:
Confidential company information or data
Details that might violate NDAs or confidentiality agreements
Specific names, numbers, or proprietary information
Information that could create legal or professional liability
We focus on how experiences felt and the patterns they created, not the business details.
You can say "There was a situation where I was publicly criticized for a decision" without explaining what the decision was, what company it involved, or any confidential details. The therapeutic work happens at the emotional and neurological level.
Everything discussed is protected by full therapeutic privilege and remains completely confidential.
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The ART intensives I offer are focused, one-day virtual sessions conducted via secure video platform. Think of it like a high-level strategic consultation from your home office.
We start by reviewing your completed Executive Performance & Stress Assessment to identify specific situations where performance blocks show up most, then trace them back to their origin points. Then we use the ART protocol to reprocess those foundational experiences, typically 3-5 key memories that created the pattern.
The entire process takes 5-7 hours with breaks. To prepare, you'll complete the EPSA assessment and required consent/HIPAA documents that I will email you when you schedule your intensive — these help us maximize our session time and target the most impactful areas.
Set yourself up in a private space with reliable internet, wear comfortable clothing, have water and snacks available, and clear your entire day. Most clients find the virtual format surprisingly effective and appreciate the complete privacy of being in their own space.
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The investment for a one-day ART intensive is $5,000. Many executives use HSA/FSA funds or consider it a professional development expense — roughly equivalent to a high-level executive coaching program but with faster, more targeted results. Friday and weekend intensives are available.
To get started, you'll schedule your intensive and pay your nonrefundable deposit. My record system will then email you the Executive Performance & Stress Assessment (EPSA) and consent documents to complete and sign virtually.
Since it's virtual, there are no travel time or location constraints — just block out one full day in your calendar.
I also include brief follow-up check-ins at 30, 90, and 180 days to ensure sustained results.
Allyson Clemmons, LCSW, LICSW
I’d love to work with you
As a business owner myself, I understand you need solutions that work on your timeline. My job is simple: find what's blocking your advancement, fix it, and get you moving again.
ART makes this possible by targeting the specific experiences that created your distress at the neurological level — resolving in as little as one day what traditional therapy and executive coaching take months or years to address.
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