Chronic Symptoms

Chronic pain is an exhausting, isolating, and unfortunately common experience.  New discoveries in chronic pain research indicate that many forms of chronic pain (including back pain, neck pain, headaches, dizziness, tendonitis, fibromyalgia symptoms, irritable bowel symptoms, repetitive stress injury, and more) are caused not by structural damage to the body, but by the neural circuitry of our brains.  Pain that is not caused by or related to physical damage to the body is known as neural circuit pain.

Sometimes neural circuit pain develops after structural damage has healed.  When an injury occurs, the brain develops neural circuits to process the pain experience.  In this way, the brain “learns” pain, the same way that it learns all habits and behaviors.  Unfortunately, the brain can also remember pain quite well, which means that neural circuits can continue generating pain even after the body has healed.

       Other times, neural circuit pain develops in the absence of any structural damage at all.  Pain is a danger signal, and it’s designed to protect you.  But the brain can generate pain when it perceives a threat of any kind, which means that psychological and emotional stressors can activate pain even if our body is not physically injured or damaged.

Our psychotherapists and chronic pain coaches are informed by and/or involved in cutting-edge research that informs a new understanding on chronic pain and its treatment.  We empower our clients with accurate pain education so they can feel confident about what is happening in their brains and their bodies.  We practice evidence-based techniques including Pain Reprocessing Therapy alongside other mindbody techniques that are designed to reprogram the brain’s neural circuitry and interrupt the Symptom-Fear Cycle.  Our clients learn to conceptualize and respond to their symptoms calmly and effectively.

The brain is neuroplastic and very capable of change, which means that neural circuit pain is a treatable and reversible condition.  It’s time to start feeling better.

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