David Walker

David Walker, MD is a general practitioner here in CT, long dedicated to the safe deprescribing of psychoactive medications, particularly benzodiazepines.  He is more recently trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE), a trauma healing modality, to complement his work.  Beyond safe deprescribing, he has wanted to understand what can truly help people through withdrawal and recovery.  He is exploring the use of SE to help challenge a commonly formed, deeply conditioned belief that withdrawing patients tend to develop and hold, that "something is really wrong with me and my body."  One can tend to experience the body as problematic, with body sensations as potentially overwhelming or sometimes simply numbness.  Somatic techniques can begin to help counter these conditioned beliefs, patterns, and numbness, generating actual and immediate powerful inner experiences of support, resource and vitality.  He feels body-oriented therapies, such as SE, can be another tool for those coming off psychiatric medications.