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Hi, I’m patrick!

I'm Patrick Walden, LICSW. I’m a psychotherapist and EMDR Practitioner based in Philadelphia. I help adults from all over the US heal from trauma with weekly talk therapy and EMDR as well as EMDR intensives. If you’ve experienced trauma, you’ll know just how much hold it can have over your life. As a trauma survivor myself, I not only get it, it’s my life’s purpose to help others heal. With EMDR, I've seen amazing results with my clients. I’d love to take this healing journey with you. Read on to learn more.

If you’ve experienced trauma, you’ll know just how much hold it can have over your life. Daily flashbacks, isolation, anxiety, nervousness, nightmares, and insomnia can bring life to a halt. Sometimes, it can be difficult to leave your home at all. EMDR can help. 

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, initially developed in the late 1980s by Francine Shapiro. Today, it is one of the most powerful ways of helping individuals heal from trauma. EMDR focuses on traumatic memories, reducing the vividness of these memories, as well as fixed negative thoughts, not by removing these things, but by

changing the way they’re stored in the brain, allowing you to adequately process the information. Fundamental components include grounding exercises, visualization, resource building, thought replacement and bilateral stimulation (such as rhythmic tapping or eye movement).

Just like when we get a cut, our body has a built in natural response to heal it. The same is true with our brains. Because the brain can be a complicated place of information storage, things sometimes can get stuck. EMDR helps to move things from stuck to processed.

We’re not just talking about what’s wrong,
we’re actually healing it. 

EMDR can also benefit people with a wide range of issues, including:

LOW SELF ESTEEM

GRIEF AND LOSS

ISOLATION AND LONELINESS

SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITY

UNRESOLVED CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

PEOPLE PLEASING

ABUSE

CODEPENDENCY

IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

CHRONIC PAIN

BREAKUPS

IMPROVING SELF ADVOCACY

ADDICTION

DEPRESSION

Anxiety

FLASHBACKS

NIGHTMARES

LEAVING CULTS

FAMILY REJECTION

FATIGUE

INSOMNIA

MOLESTATION

RAPE

SCHOOL
SHOOTINGS

ACCIDENTS

TERRORISM

NATURAL
DISASTERS

VIOLENT CRIMES

WAR VETERANS

OTHER DISTRESSING LIFE EVENTS

According to the EMDR International Association,

“EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007). Shapiro and Forrest (2016) share that more than
7 million people have been treated successfully by 110,000 therapists in 130 countries since 2016.”

EMDR is internationally recognized and endorsed for its effectiveness for treating trauma by:

  • Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)

  • United States National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

  • The American Psychiatric Association 

  • The American Psychological Association

  • The World Health Organization (WHO)

  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence 

  • The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

  • The U.S. Department of Defense

  • The Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews

But don’t just take my word for it.