Philadelphia EMDR

02/06/2026

Be the Resistance. ✊

02/06/2026

Do yourself a favor. Turn off your phone and watch this.

When the world needed them most, they returned. 💚

Stream The Muppet Show with Sabrina Carpenter on Disney Plus! Let’s get this a full series!

02/05/2026

Anyone been to Omega? I think I may go this summer on my quest to learn more about mind body pain and healing. I’d love to hear your experiences of the retreat space.

02/05/2026

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02/03/2026

02/02/2026

Something has occurred to me. Would you believe I’ve been a therapist for 20 years now? From nervously shadowing a senior clinician on how to do an intake to my own therapy and training practice. That feels like a milestone worth celebrating!

02/02/2026

Anyone else excited for spring? I think we really need spring this year. But for now, how’s everyone doing rolling into Monday?

01/31/2026

Dat first bite of chocolate at Anthony’s after Mr John’s Music class. 😌

01/30/2026

Fascinating. What do you think?

Psilocybin doesn’t just alter perception—it temporarily erases the brain’s unique signature.

New brain-imaging research shows that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, profoundly disrupts the patterns that make each human brain recognisable as an individual. During the psychedelic experience, these patterns become so scrambled that different people’s brain scans are nearly indistinguishable from one another.

Using an advanced approach known as precision functional mapping, neuroscientists scanned the brains of seven healthy adults before, during, and for up to three weeks after psilocybin administration. For comparison, the same participants were also scanned after taking methylphenidate (Ritalin), a commonly prescribed stimulant.

The results were striking. Psilocybin caused widespread desynchronisation across functional brain networks, with the most dramatic effects seen in the Default Mode Network (DMN)—a system closely linked to self-reflection, autobiographical memory, and the sense of identity. As the DMN lost its usual coordination, the brain’s “neural fingerprint” effectively disappeared.

Even more intriguing, some alterations in brain connectivity persisted for weeks after the experience, long after the drug had left the body. This lasting rewiring may help explain why psilocybin is being intensively studied for conditions such as depression, addiction, and PTSD—where rigid patterns of thought play a central role.

Rather than simply “turning off” the brain, psilocybin appears to loosen its most deeply ingrained structures, temporarily dissolving the boundaries of the self and opening the door to long-term psychological change.

Source:
Siegel, J. S., et al. (2024). Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain. Nature.

01/30/2026

Hey guys I don’t really know how to use social media anymore let alone navigate one for my business but we’ll figure it out. If you’re new here, hi my name’s Patrick and I’m a therapist who’s life purpose it is to help adult children of complex trauma heal and find lives of peace and joy. I also help train other therapists, and will probably be doing more of that soon once my rocky year stabilizes a bit more. Here’s a picture if me, a therapist at rest. It’s been a heavy few weeks in the world. I wanted to post to say I am very much in solidarity of the national strike tomorrow. ICE is actively traumatizing children and their families. I hold a lot of stories and I have to have a bit of a membrane up to protect myself from some of the hard things I hear with clients or see on the news. And today I saw a picture of the 5 year old boy taken by ICE, sick in his father’s arms, both of them in custody, and just wept. It would be great if I was out of a job as a trauma therapist one day. Please join me in saying this has to stop and we take a stand against ICE terrorizing and traumatizing our neighbors.