Unfortunately, chronic pain can affect you on a holistic level, affecting almost every part of your life. It can be hard to figure out how to turn the page and change the tide in your pain patterns. Pain is complex, but there are opportunities to reduce it in its complexity.
We can work together to figure out what healing and pain reduction is possible. We can target the components that are fueling your pain. With chronic pain therapy, we can find the tools that will help you discover a life with less pain and suffering.
How I Can Help You With Your Chronic Pain
After my own experience with chronic pain, I want to help you reduce your pain and get more out of your life. I know how hard it can be to struggle with severe pain on a daily basis and the emotional toll of feeling like you are losing your life to your pain.
I know how complex and individual someone’s pain experience can be, so we can focus on your priorities and what is likely to be most effective for your pain experience. You are not alone in this.
We can start with understanding your pain experience, struggles, and what may be contributing to your pain. We can work together to address your pain in the way that makes sense to both you and your pain condition.
I am trained in multiple therapies and techniques that can help you manage your chronic pain or in some cases recover from your chronic pain. Some of these therapies include Pain Reprocessing Therapy, EMDR Pain Protocol, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Polyvagal Theory, and Mindfulness.
We can work together to improve your pain and help you get more from your life.
How I Approach Chronic Pain in Therapy
Chronic pain can be a complex puzzle of many factors that contribute to your pain and your suffering. I can help you cope with the emotions, changes and loss you are experiencing due to your pain. We can work together to make sense of your pain, reduce the intensity and start to create a better life for you either with your pain or having recovered from your pain.
Sometimes, we can get rid of your pain. Other times, we can substantially reduce your pain, and occasionally, we can only help you better manage your pain.
Understanding Your Pain
Chronic pain recovery starts by understanding your pain and what contributes to it. Once we know what is contributing to your pain, we can use strategies and skills to change those factors.
Assessing Your Pain
Assessment of the characteristics of your pain can help identify the potential for chronic pain recovery. How much of the pain is structural and are there treatments that can treat the structural issues, if any? How much of the pain has a nociplastic component? Nociplastic pain is treatable and you can recover from it.
Chronic Pain is a Complex Puzzle
Chronic pain doesn’t only reflect one thing. It is a puzzle of your brain’s perceptions, your fears and emotions, patterns created due to life experiences, your grief and trauma, and thought patterns. Your suffering from chronic pain isn’t just your pain levels. It’s the many different ways that your pain has negatively affected you. This can be from the fatigue of being in pain all the time, to the loss of things you used to enjoy, to the changes you’ve had to make in your work, life, and relationships.
We can work in a way that aligns with your goals and evolving needs. Helping you cope and strategize to get the most out of your life now as we work towards a life for you with less suffering and more ease.
What Results My Clients See With Chronic Pain Therapy
- Reduction in pain, pain flares, and pain intensity.
- Gaining more skills to improve their ability to cope with their pain and feeling more in control of their lives.
- Increased awareness and knowledge of what is behind their pain and what they can do to improve their pain.
- Improved sleep and ability to relax
- Better boundaries, improved self-care, increased function, and better quality of life.
- Reduction in some of the emotional and psychological components of chronic pain, such as grief, fatigue, shame, depression, anxiety, anger and guilt.
Take The Next Step and Get More Out of Your Life
Please Book a Free 15-minute Consultation to Find Out How I Can Help You With Your Chronic Pain.
Related Chronic Pain Blog Posts
Related Chronic Pain Blog Posts:
- What is Nociplastic Pain and is it Treatable?
- What is Chronic Pain?
- Why Your Coping Techniques May Not Be Working for You?
- What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy?
- The Connection Between Trauma and Chronic Pain
- The Grief of Chronic Pain
- Your Pain is Real: Understanding the Pain System
- The Fatigue of Chronic Pain
- How EMDR Can Be Used for Chronic Pain