A Trauma Intensive is four or six hours of focused ART processing in a single day, built for people whose work produces critical incidents faster than weekly therapy can clear them. This format is for those arriving with genuine readiness and a clear intention to complete the work, often police, fire, EMS, dispatch, nurses, and physicians. Every intensive is delivered virtually by secure telehealth, so location is never a barrier anywhere in Georgia.
This format was designed around the reality of emergency services and hospital medicine: exposure that is cumulative, scheduling that is hostile to weekly care, and a professional culture where admitting the calls are stacking up carries a cost most outsiders underestimate.
The intensive is priced by how many severe events we are treating, not by how long you have been struggling. In the free consultation we identify the specific incidents you want to target, and that determines which option fits. You are never sold up.
The work is done with Accelerated Resolution Therapy, an evidence-based protocol using guided bilateral eye movements to reprocess stored traumatic imagery. You keep the memory. What drops away is the physical and emotional charge attached to it. Timing below reflects a four hour block; the six hour format extends the processing phase.
It is almost never that they do not know something is wrong. It is that the cost of saying so out loud looks higher than the cost of carrying it. Getting pulled off the road. A fitness-for-duty referral. A note in a file. A reputation among people whose opinion of you is the thing you use to stay upright.
So the standard answer is to compartmentalize, and compartmentalizing genuinely works, for a while, and then only at increasing cost. The sleep goes. The temper shortens. The drinking becomes structural rather than social. Your spouse says you are not here even when you are in the room, and they are right, because part of you is still on a call from four years ago.
This is not a resilience deficit. Your nervous system did exactly what it is designed to do under repeated exposure to things it was never built for. The response that made you effective at 3 a.m. does not have an off switch, and nobody ever taught you where the manual override is.
No agency contact, no employer notification, and no insurance claim, because this is a cash-pay practice: nothing is submitted to a payer and no diagnosis is reported to anyone. I do not release records without your written authorization. The standard legal limits on confidentiality that apply to all therapy in Georgia still apply, and I will walk you through precisely what those are before we begin, so you are deciding with full information rather than hoping.
And because ART works on imagery rather than narrative, you can process a scene without putting it into another person’s head. For people who have spent a career deliberately protecting civilians from the details, that turns out to matter enormously.
Start with the free fifteen-minute consultation. We identify what you are carrying, decide together whether four hours or six is the right fit, and you find out what the work would actually involve before you commit to anything.