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
My name is Megan Loving and I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states of TN and VA. I have nearly a decade of mental health experience across Northeast TN and Southwest VA. As a counselor, my personal philosophy is to be a supportive facilitator that guides you on your journey through whatever issues you have previously or are currently facing in life. I'm highly motivated and patient...
Amanda offers a unique person-centered, trauma-informed approach to therapy which guides individuals to their own path to happiness. Her philosophy emphasizes the importance of individual trauma, and how it plays out in the client’s world today. The eclectic combination of Cognitive Behavioral, Dialectical Behavioral, EMDR, reality based, solution focused and psychoeducation therapy interventio...
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Kevin believes his role as a therapist is never to “fix” his client but empower them to uncover the fulfilled life they deserve. He feels listening with sincere empathy, remaining without judgment, and guiding the client to a better understanding of self in a safe and honest place shapes the foundation for long-lasting positive changes. The client is the utmost expert of themselves, and Kevin i...
My approach to psychotherapy is psychodynamic and relational, and I’m always asking myself how I can be most effective for each unique individual I have the pleasure of getting to know. I like to invite the wisdom of the body and explore unconscious feelings and narratives held somatically as we unpack underlying patterns of behaving, relating, and experiencing. I maintain a curious and...
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