Chronic Pain Recovery

A Different Approach to Chronic Pain

If you're living with chronic pain, you've probably tried everything. Back surgery, prolo-therapy, nerve ablations, neurofeedback. Alternative therapies like homeopathy, energy work, or acupuncture. Physical therapies like physio, chiropractic, osteopathy, or massage. Some of it helped temporarily. None of it resolved the underlying problem. And at some point, you may have been told that you'll just have to learn to live with it.

There's another possibility.

Modern neuroscience has fundamentally changed our understanding of chronic pain. Research now shows that most persistent pain is maintained by learned neural pathways in the brain, not by ongoing tissue damage. Your pain is real. It's just not being caused by what you think it is.

How the Brain Creates Chronic Pain

When you first injure yourself, pain serves an important protective function. It tells you something is wrong and needs attention. But sometimes, long after the tissue has healed, the brain continues to produce pain signals. The pain pathway has become a learned habit: a neural circuit that fires automatically, even without any structural cause.

This is called neuroplastic pain, and it's far more common than most people realize. Signs that your pain may be neuroplastic include:

• Pain that started after a period of stress or emotional difficulty
• Pain that moves around your body
• Imaging (MRI, X-ray) that looks normal or doesn't explain your pain level
• Pain that fluctuates with stress, mood, or sleep
• Multiple pain conditions that seem unrelated
• Pain that's persisted long after an injury should have healed

Conditions I Treat

I work with adults (ages 22-75) who have chronic, often unexplained symptoms where doctors have been unable to determine a peripheral cause like a tumour, infection, auto-immune disorder, or physical tissue damage.

• Chronic back pain and neck pain
• Migraines and tension headaches
• Fibromyalgia
• POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome)
• Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
• Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS)
• Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)
• Functional neurological disorder (FND)
• Repetitive strain injuries (RSI, carpal tunnel)
• Persistent pain after surgery
• Pelvic pain
• TMJ and jaw pain
• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
• Pain with no clear medical explanation

How I Work With Chronic Pain

I use an integrated approach that combines the most effective evidence-based methods for chronic pain recovery:

• Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). Retraining the brain to stop producing false pain signals.
• Brainspotting. Accessing deep brain processing to release stored pain patterns.
• ACT. Building psychological flexibility and reconnecting with values-driven living.
• Clinical Hypnosis. Modulating pain perception and calming the nervous system.

I've Been Where You Are

I didn't come to this work as a detached academic. I came to it as someone who lived with chronic pain for years and found my way out. I know what it's like to feel frustrated, skeptical, and exhausted by the search for answers. And I know that recovery is possible, because I experienced it myself.

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