How To Reprocess Your Pain
If you are living with an illness or chronic physical symptoms—like pain, fatigue, hypermobility, insomnia, etc.—seeing a social worker may not seem intuitive. Understandably so. Pain is usually what tells us to go to the doctor.
However, there is compelling research that reworks the common cause-and-effect understanding of how pain is experienced in the body. Instead, what we experience as pain is a complex interaction between the body, the emotions, and our relationships.
This is what actually relocates pain management much more appropriately into the hands of social worker. “Bio-psyscho-social” dynamics are specifically what we are educated and trained in.
And because one of the two places that generates the pain experience is the brain I can help you even more. For example:
1. “structural” pain sends signals from the site of the pain to the brain, for example damaged tissue. This is a doctor’s lane.
2. “neuroplastic” aka “neurophysiological” pain sends signals from the brain to the site of the pain. This is a social worker’s lane.
Either way, you are obviously feeling the pain— it’s just a matter of direction.
When the pain signals are coming from the brain and not the body, other treatment options become available.
This is great news! Your options have not run out! I can help and I know what to do.
A member of The Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms, I am trained in:
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP)
Emotional Awareness & Expression Therapy (EAET)
All of these are easy to learn and practice, combining both ancient and evidence-based wisdom into simple, effective psychological techniques. This model also works for chronic emotional, mental, and spiritual pain.