Chronic pain occurs for many reasons. Regardless of its cause, chronic pain is exhausting, debilitating, and can lead to mental health issues such as isolation, depression, and suicidal ideation.
Available Treatment Options
Therapist interventions for chronic pain include the therapist validating the person. People with chronic pain may feel alone or unheard because their loved ones have heard (often repeatedly) about the pain. Not feeling heard could make them feel small, unimportant, or unworthy. On the contrary, a therapist’s job is to sit with the person and their pain. To recognize it, name it, and validate the person’s experiences with it.
Group therapy can also be helpful for people with chronic pain, as it is comforting to recognize other people are experiencing the same thing. Mindfulness techniques, such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, or breathwork, can be helpful for individuals with chronic pain.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Chronic Pain
I can help you navigate the challenges of life! You might be in pain or you might be in a good place and want to move to a better place. Whatever your desire, I can help you move where you want to go. I have endured challenges myself and have moved to a very peaceful place. This has taught me a huge number of ways that I can help you to move to where you want to go. I can help you with whatever...
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Since 2017, Columbus Women's Wellness (CWW) has provided specialized mental health services and been dedicated to supporting the unique needs of women of all ages and girls twelve years of age and older. CWW is comprised of providers who are specialists in their fields. This makes CWW a premier resource for Central Ohio women and girls. CWW provides individual, couples, and group support therap...
**CURRENTLY providing quarantine sensitive therapy - video or phone sessions** Does every day seem like a struggle? Do you have a head full of racing thoughts and self-doubt? Experiencing sleepless nights? It can feel like the pain of your emotions overshadows the moments of joy in your life. We are told we have to have goals and have to work hard to achieve those goals. But what if it takes al...
My hope is to bring awareness to your past and present experiences to facilitate a true healing in moving forward. It is possible to move through darkness into your light. I have an understanding and awareness of psychological and somatic/body patterning to help resolve trauma from abuse, acute events, relationship/attachment struggles, grief/loss, chronic pain, self-esteem/love, life transitio...
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The Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (CCDBT) is a team of professionals who have been working together since 1999 to provide Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). In October 2006, the Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy was opened as a private center for psychotherapy on Long Island, New York - the same area in which we developed our original DBT program. So...
I come to my work as a therapist from backgrounds as an artist, hospital oncology chaplain, art professor and activist, meditation teacher, lover of movement, backpacker Dharma bum, essayist, would-be trainer of rescue pups, and Buddhist nun. I've been around the block, tried many things, succeeded and failed, and carried my heart through many of this world's wild, beautiful, boring, terrible,...
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