Concierge Trauma Therapy for Executives in Los Angeles

📉 Professional Failures with Public Visibility

When your company goes public and fails spectacularly, when you're forced out as CEO, or when business decisions result in massive losses—these experiences can be traumatic, especially when played out publicly in media or industry circles.

⚖️ Legal Threats & Litigation Stress

Being sued, investigated, or facing legal jeopardy creates a specific type of ongoing trauma. The uncertainty, threat to reputation, and potential catastrophic consequences create chronic hypervigilance and anxiety.

💔 Betrayal by Trusted Partners

Discovering that a co-founder embezzled, a trusted executive sabotaged your company, or a board member worked against you creates profound betrayal trauma that affects your ability to trust in future professional relationships.

🏢 Sudden, Dramatic Business Loss

Losing a company you built, experiencing sudden bankruptcy, or having to conduct mass layoffs can be traumatic—the grief, shame, and financial devastation create lasting psychological impact.

🔥 Cumulative Stress & Burnout

Years of operating under extreme pressure, making life-or-death business decisions, and managing constant crises can create complex trauma even without a single identifiable incident. Your nervous system stays in perpetual threat-response mode.

⚠️ Workplace Violence or Threats

Executives dealing with threatening employees, stalkers, or hostile workplace situations experience legitimate trauma that's often minimized because it didn't result in physical injury.

🔒 Personal Trauma Affecting Professional Life

Executives aren't immune to domestic violence, sexual assault, childhood trauma, or other personal traumatic experiences. These often go unaddressed because acknowledging vulnerability feels incompatible with leadership identity.

👀 Hypervigilance & Difficulty Relaxing

You're constantly scanning for threats, unable to truly relax even on vacation. Your nervous system stays activated, prepared for the next crisis.

🚫 Avoidance of Reminders

You may avoid situations, people, or conversations that remind you of traumatic experiences. This can limit your professional effectiveness when avoidance interferes with necessary activities.

😶 Emotional Numbing or Disconnection

To manage overwhelming feelings, you shut down emotionally. This protects you from distress but also prevents connection with partners, family, and colleagues.

💭 Intrusive Thoughts & Flashbacks

Memories of traumatic events intrude unexpectedly—during meetings, while trying to sleep, or when making decisions that unconsciously trigger trauma associations.

🤝 Difficulty Trusting Others

After betrayal or violation of trust, you struggle to delegate, form partnerships, or be vulnerable with colleagues. This limits leadership effectiveness and isolates you further.

😔 Shame & Self-Blame

You replay traumatic events wondering what you could have done differently, blaming yourself for outcomes that weren't entirely your responsibility.

🍷 Increased Substance Use

Many executives self-medicate trauma symptoms with alcohol or other substances, creating dependency that compounds the original problem.

🧠 Impaired Decision-Making

Unresolved trauma affects executive functioning—working memory, cognitive flexibility, and strategic thinking—making you less effective in the high-stakes decisions your role requires.

🎯 Trauma Specialists, Not Generalists

You work with psychologists specifically trained in evidence-based trauma treatments—EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, or trauma-focused CBT. Not therapists who "also treat trauma" alongside everything else.

💼 Executive Context Understanding

Your therapist understands professional trauma—business failures, legal stress, board conflicts, public scrutiny. They don't pathologize ambition or minimize workplace trauma.

⚡ Flexible, Intensive Options

Trauma treatment can be accelerated through intensive sessions (2-3 hours) rather than stretched across months of weekly 50-minute appointments. When you need to address trauma quickly to function in your role, intensive options matter.

🚨 Immediate Access During Crisis

When trauma symptoms interfere with critical business functions, you need same-day or next-day appointments, not waiting lists measured in weeks.

🔒 Complete Confidentiality

No insurance involvement means no diagnosis on your medical record, no claims visible to anyone, and no documentation that could surface in legal proceedings or due diligence processes.

📅 Proactive Scheduling & Follow-Up

Your therapist maintains contact between sessions, checks in during difficult periods, and takes responsibility for scheduling rather than assuming you'll remember to book appointments while managing trauma symptoms.

Your Trauma May Be Professionally Generated

Many trauma therapists lack understanding of business contexts. When your trauma involves board dynamics, investor pressure, or public company failure, you need a therapist who comprehends these situations.

You Can't Afford Extended Time Away

Traditional trauma treatment sometimes recommends extended leave. As an executive, that's often impossible. You need treatment that allows you to continue functioning while healing.

Privacy Concerns Are Paramount

Using insurance for trauma treatment creates documentation that could affect future opportunities, insurance coverage, or—in worst cases—be discoverable in legal proceedings.

Your Support System May Be Limited

Executives often can't confide in colleagues, may have strained family relationships due to work demands, and lack the social support networks that standard trauma treatment assumes exist.

Vulnerability Feels Incompatible with Your Role

Admitting trauma and seeking treatment requires vulnerability that feels at odds with the strength and confidence your position demands. You need a therapist who understands this tension.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is among the most researched trauma treatments and particularly well-suited for busy executives:

How EMDR works: During EMDR, you recall traumatic memories while simultaneously focusing on bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements, taps, or tones). This dual attention helps your brain reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity and changing how they're stored.

Why executives respond well: EMDR doesn't require extensive verbal processing or homework assignments. Sessions are structured and time-efficient. Many executives experience significant symptom reduction in 6-12 sessions.

What to expect: You'll identify target memories causing current distress, develop resources to manage difficult emotions, then process memories systematically until they no longer trigger intense reactions.

Prolonged Exposure (PE)

PE is the gold-standard treatment for PTSD with extensive research support:

How PE works: Through controlled, repeated exposure to trauma memories and situations you've been avoiding, your brain learns these aren't actually dangerous. The emotional response decreases through habituation.

Why executives benefit: PE is highly structured with clear protocols. You learn you can tolerate difficult emotions without being overwhelmed—valuable both for trauma recovery and executive functioning.

Time commitment: Typically 8-15 weekly sessions plus some homework (recordings and exposure exercises). Intensive formats (multiple sessions per week) can accelerate treatment.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

CPT addresses how traumatic experiences affect beliefs about yourself, others, and the world:

How CPT works: You identify and challenge unhelpful beliefs formed due to trauma—"I should have prevented this," "People can't be trusted," "The world is completely unsafe." Changing these cognitions reduces distress and improves functioning.

Why executives appreciate CPT: It's logical, structured, and skills-based. Executives who value intellectual approaches often respond well to examining thought patterns systematically.

Expected duration: 12 sessions is the standard protocol, though some benefit from additional sessions for complex trauma.

Trauma-Focused CBT

Combines cognitive therapy with exposure techniques, tailored to your specific trauma presentation:

How it works: Addresses trauma through multiple channels—challenging unhelpful thoughts, gradual exposure to memories and avoided situations, developing coping skills, and processing trauma meaning.

Flexibility for executives: Can be adapted to your schedule, integrated with executive coaching elements, and customized to address professional trauma contexts.

Treatment length: Varies based on trauma complexity and goals, typically 12-20 sessions.

📉 Impaired Professional Performance

Trauma symptoms affect decision-making quality, focus, strategic thinking, and leadership presence. Poor decisions due to trauma impairment can cost far more than treatment.

💔 Destroyed Relationships

Trauma-driven emotional disconnection, hypervigilance, and difficulty trusting damages marriages, family relationships, and professional partnerships.

🏥 Health Consequences

Unresolved trauma creates chronic stress affecting cardiovascular health, immune function, and longevity. Medical costs from trauma-related health problems accumulate over decades.

🔄 Missed Opportunities

Avoidance driven by trauma causes you to decline opportunities, avoid necessary professional situations, or limit your potential impact as a leader.

Initial Contact

Call (562) 295-6650 or visit cerevity.com/get-started

Brief Consultation

Discuss your situation, trauma symptoms, and treatment goals

Therapist Matching

Connect with trauma specialist with executive experience

Rapid Scheduling

Begin within 24-48 hours when dealing with acute symptoms

Assessment & Planning

Develop personalized treatment approach in first session

Will trauma therapy make me relive traumatic experiences?

Evidence-based trauma therapy involves controlled, manageable exposure to traumatic memories—not overwhelming re-traumatization. Your therapist ensures you have adequate coping skills before trauma processing begins. You're always in control of pacing.

Can I do trauma therapy while continuing to work as an executive?

Yes. Most executives continue working throughout trauma treatment. We structure sessions to minimize disruption to your professional functioning. If symptoms are severe, we may recommend temporary workload reduction, but extended leave is rarely necessary.

How do I know if I have trauma vs. just stress?

If you experience intrusive memories, hypervigilance, avoidance of reminders, emotional numbing, or difficulty functioning due to past experiences, trauma treatment may help—regardless of whether experiences fit traditional trauma definitions. The assessment process clarifies this.

What if my trauma involves ongoing legal matters?

We can provide trauma treatment while legal matters are pending. However, we'll discuss documentation and confidentiality carefully. In some cases, we may recommend waiting until legal matters resolve to avoid any potential complications.

Will anyone find out I'm in trauma therapy?

We operate entirely on a private-pay basis with no insurance involvement. No claims, no documentation visible to anyone, complete confidentiality. You control who knows you're in treatment.

What if I don't want to talk about what happened?

Some trauma treatments (particularly EMDR) require less verbal processing than traditional talk therapy. We can work with your comfort level while still providing effective treatment. However, some discussion of traumatic experiences is typically necessary for resolution.

Dr. Benjamin Rosen, PsyD

Dr. Benjamin Rosen is a licensed clinical psychologist at Cerevity specializing in trauma treatment for executives and high-achieving professionals throughout Los Angeles and California. He provides evidence-based trauma therapy including EMDR, Prolonged Exposure, and Cognitive Processing Therapy, with particular expertise in professional trauma, complex PTSD, and trauma occurring in leadership contexts. Dr. Rosen holds a doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) and maintains a California psychology license.