Finding Relief from Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain can feel overwhelming, isolating, and exhausting. Many people are told that their pain is permanent or that their only option is to manage symptoms. However, what if your pain isn’t a sign of damage in your body, but rather the brain misinterpreting signals of danger?

This is the core idea behind Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), an evidence-based approach that has helped many people dramatically reduce and even resolve long-standing pain.

Understanding Pain Differently

Pain is real. However, it doesn’t always mean something is wrong with our body. In fact, chronic pain often develops when the nervous system gets “stuck” in a cycle of overprotection—sending pain signals even when our physical body is safe.

PRT interrupts this cycle by training the brain to reconnect to a sense of fundamental safety. The approach involves guided experiential practices to give the nervous system embodied experiences of greater spaciousness and calm, allowing the brain to more accurately interpret sensations and signals through a lens of safety rather than danger.

It is important to note that sometimes we also experience pain in response to injuries or conditions involving existing structural damage or illness. Even in these cases, stress and emotional strain often amplify pain, while nervous system regulation can reduce it. This is why PRT and somatic therapies can still play a powerful role in supporting healing, easing intensity, and improving quality of life regardless of where you are in your journey.

How Pain Reprocessing Therapy Can Help

  • Shift Your Relationship with Pain - Learn to view pain as an alarm rather than a threat, reducing fear and intensity.

  • Calm the Nervous System - Practice tools that bring safety to the body and mind, helping your brain “unlearn” pain pathways.

  • Address Fear & Avoidance - Gently reintroduce movement and activities with confidence, breaking the cycle of pain and fear.

  • Build Resilience - Strengthen your ability to respond to stress, emotions, and physical sensations in supportive ways.

What Makes My Approach Unique

While PRT provides a strong, research-backed framework for working with chronic pain, in our work together I may also weave in additional synergistic somatic modalities. This allows me to create a treatment that is tailored and collaborative to address your unique situation.

By flexibly integrating PRT with Internal Family Systems, somatic experiencing, and other related mind-body approaches, I can help you:

  • Develop skills to calm and regulate your unique nervous system more effectively

  • Gain insight and experience guided practices to help release emotional patterns that may fuel pain

  • Offer more entryways to building a sense of safety and trust in the body

  • Experience more freedom, spaciousness, and choice in daily life

This integrative approach honors the complexity of chronic pain to empower you to find lasting relief and greater freedom.

If you’ve been living with pain that has felt confusing, exhausting, or never-ending, a personalized mind-body approach grounded in evidence-based treatment such as PRT may offer a new way forward—not through avoiding or trying to ignore pain, rather instead through listening, understanding, and gently re-training the brain’s response.

PRT can be done on its own as a primary therapy, or it can also be a powerful adjunct to work you may already be doing with a primary therapist.

If you’re curious to explore this approach, I invite you to reach out and schedule a free consultation with me to see if personalized PRT might be a right fit for you at this time.