Therapy for Chronic Pain

Is pain in your body—or your brain? The truth is, pain isn’t just physical. It’s also shaped by your emotions, thoughts, and even your relationships. What we go through mentally and socially can affect how we feel pain and how we cope with it. Therapy helps connect the dots between your body, mind, and life—so you can start to feel more in control and supported as you heal.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
PRT retrains the brain to change how it interprets pain signals, reducing or eliminating chronic pain.

“At long last, a successful treatment for chronic, disabling pain.” Aaron T. Beck, founder of CBT

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Pain Reprocessing Practitioners help you unlearn the fear–pain cycle

Chronic pain often creates a feedback loop:


You feel pain → You fear it won’t go away → The brain senses danger → Pain increases → Fear increases → And the cycle continues.

PRT gently interrupts that loop. Through education, somatic tracking, and emotional support, we help you explore pain sensations from a place of curiosity and safety. The more safety your brain experiences, the less it feels the need to produce pain.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy is rooted in modern neuroscience

Your pain is real—and it originates in the brain. That doesn’t mean it’s “all in your head.” All pain, even pain from injuries or illness, is generated by the nervous system. But in many chronic conditions, the brain continues to produce pain even after the body has healed—or in the absence of structural damage.

Pain is your body’s protective alarm system, but sometimes that system becomes overly sensitive, misfiring even when there’s no threat. PRT helps recalibrate this response by teaching the brain to interpret bodily signals as safe. When the brain no longer perceives danger, the intensity of pain often decreases—and in some cases, it can resolve completely.

PRT works across a wide range of conditions

Pain Reprocessing Therapy is often effective for people experiencing persistent pain without a clear physical cause—like back or neck pain, fibromyalgia, or headaches. But it’s not only for “mystery pain.”

PRT has been shown to reduce pain in many cases where structural abnormalities or medical diagnoses are present—especially when the nervous system has become sensitized. Conditions like herniated discs or post-surgical pain often involve both physical and neurological components. While PRT doesn’t treat structural issues directly, it helps calm the brain’s heightened pain response, which can significantly reduce overall pain..

FAQs

Chronic pain isn’t only a physical issue—it’s shaped by your nervous system, emotions, and environment. Approaches like Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) help retrain the brain’s pain signals, reduce the fear–pain cycle, and create lasting relief.

PRT is a neuroscience-based approach that teaches the brain to interpret bodily sensations as safe. By interrupting the fear–pain loop through education, somatic tracking, and emotional support, PRT helps lower pain intensity and, in some cases, resolve it entirely

PRT can reduce pain even when there’s a structural diagnosis, like a herniated disc or post-surgical discomfort. While it doesn’t treat the physical condition directly, it helps calm the brain’s heightened pain response, which often lowers overall pain levels.

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