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
You want and need to feel better. I help you discover how your thoughts and actions take you away from yourself. I practice from an open, honest, and non-judgmental point of view. As a therapist, I consider us as whole and valuable right now, but with barriers to experiencing ourselves or life in this way. When human beings are supported like this, soon things can feel better and change is...
Hello, I'm Heidi; a Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist living in Santa Barbara, California. After 25 years serving in the medical profession as a nurse, I've become attuned to people's physical, emotional and spiritual health. Today, I provide on-site therapy, specializing in healing from trauma, anxiety, addictions and depression. I've learned mental health is a balance between our biological...
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Your emotional needs are important and deserve attention and time. There's no need to suffer alone and in silence when help is available. With treatment, people are capable of transformation, healing and positive self-development. I take a mindbody approach and integrate mindfulness, EMDR, SE®, DBT and craniosacral therapies for healing. If you're suffering from trauma, if you're in the perinat...
I'm nonsense-free and my approach is practical and proven. I have been practicing as a Licensed Therapist (LCSW) since 1998 and retired from the Air Force in Dec of 2016. I know that not everyone learns how to be well or how to manage difficulties in life but I know that everyone can learn these skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the interventions I offer and is very effective at...
