Emma Virden, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker

My deepest work is with complex and developmental trauma — the kind that shapes how you relate to yourself and others long after the original events. I'm especially skilled at helping adults with attachment wounds, dissociation, and the patterns that grow out of difficult family-of-origin experiences. Using Internal Family Systems and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), I help clients process painful memories and make sense of the parts of themselves that feel stuck, reactive, or hard to understand. I also work extensively with anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, anger, ADHD, adoption, and the particular overwhelm that comes with parenting. Whether your struggle has a clear name or you just know something feels off, you don't have to have it figured out to begin.

I see my role as creating a space where you can show up exactly as you are — without pressure to perform, filter, or have everything figured out. My job is to meet you where you are that day and to stay present with you there, whatever you bring. I believe change happens not only through understanding ourselves more deeply, but through feeling safe enough to be fully human in the process, and I take both halves of that seriously. I'll bring warmth, collaboration, and an honest, real presence — sometimes with a healthy dose of humor to keep things grounded. More than anything, my role is to help you make sense of your own experience and trust yourself in it.