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Are you experiencing chronic pain or chronic symptoms that won’t go away and are not getting better? Does it feel like you’ve tried and exhausted every option your doctor has suggested (and maybe even some natural remedies such as acupuncture, supplements, chiropractic adjustments etc.)? Are you struggling to try to maintain your job, your family life, & your social obligations because of your chronic pain or symptoms? Do you walk on eggshells everyday trying to avoid your triggers? Are you losing hope about having to live the rest of your life in pain?

If you’ve answered yes to most of these questions, I want you to know something very important. You do not have to live the rest of your life in fear of symptoms. You do not have to struggle to try to maintain your job, your family life, & your social obligations. You do not have to walk on eggshells all day in fear of triggering your next attack. You do not have to lose hope and resign to living life in chronic pain.

There is hope. Healing is possible.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Mindbody work are evidence-based approaches that help the brain unlearn chronic pain & symptoms. Just like how our brains can learn the pain, with our conscious effort they can also unlearn it.

The pain you are experiencing is real, but the answer is not a structural or medicinal change to your body. Our work together will teach you the brain science behind psychosomatic pain & practical exercises to restore your internal sense of safety, leading to the eventual decrease (and elimination) of symptoms.

After suffering through six years of chronic migraine & tension headaches, I know that my website is finding you in a hard place right now. I know you are here because you’ve been to hundreds of doctors appointments, had the tests done, tried the medicines, the acupuncture, the teas, ointments, herbs, literally anything to stop your pain. If that’s where I am meeting you, I’m first very sorry but I’m also very glad, as it that means that this work will work for you.

I know because it did for me, and continues to do so for thousands of others.

 FAQs

  • Chronic pain, pain lasting longer than 3 months, does not always stem from ongoing tissue damage. Our brain & nervous system can get stuck in a pain→fear→ pain loop that exacerbates your symptoms. In other words, you experience pain/symptoms, get scared of those symptoms (oh no! another attack, how long is this going to last?, is it bad enough to take my medicine?, am I going to have to cancel my plans etc.) which then puts your brain on high alert & essentially reinforces the pain. A mindbody approach recognizes the connection between your brain and your body and the healing that can happen when you calm your nervous system and teach your body that it’s safe. In our work together you will develop an in depth understanding of these concepts, and the tools I will teach you will work to alleviate your pain.

  • No! Absolutely not. Your pain and symptoms are 100% real and being felt in your body. But the root cause/solution is not tissue damage, or something structurally wrong with you. The root cause is your brain being stuck in ‘pain mode’ and sensing danger where there is none. Through different exercises we will work to correct this misunderstanding & develop new neuropathways.

  • Everyone heals differently and in their own time so it is impossible to predict. Some have healed just by learning about this approach and its possibilities to end your pain. For others, it can take longer. Don’t worry about the timeline, the priority is to educate yourself while changing your relationship to pain, the rest will follow.

  • This work does not discredit the medical field, if you have new or worsening pain you should get it examined. However, most findings on MRI’s end up being incidental and not the actual source of your pain. Western culture has taught us to equate pain with something structurally wrong with our bodies, but this is not the case for chronic pain.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy - Mindbody Work - TMS -
Neuroplastic or Psychosomatic Pain

As this work gains focus and attention it has also gained new names. To be clear if you hear any of the above terms know that they are interchangeable and work within the same mechanism. Each is a psychological approach that helps people understand and change the way their brain interprets and maintains chronic pain. PRT is grounded in the idea that when pain persists without ongoing tissue damage or clear physiological cause, the nervous system has learned to produce pain signals as a false alarm. The therapy focuses on retraining the brain’s threat and pain circuitry so that pain is experienced less frequently and with less intensity.

You already believe.

What I will teach you, you already believe. Ever gotten butterflies and sweaty palms or fast heartbeat before giving a speech? A tension headache after a stressful day at work? Cried while watching a sad movie?

Your emotional world can cause physical symptoms, otherwise known as psychosomatic symptoms. It is important to note this is not saying ‘it’s all in your head’. Your pain and symptoms are 100% being felt and experienced physically in your body but the root cause of what is triggering these symptoms is not structural. Our work together will dive deep into the science behind this process and what is going on in your brain, as well as specific techniques to retrain it. I will teach you to become aware of, allow and name certain emotions, sit with them, and teach yourself that they are safe to feel. In doing so, your brain will learn it’s no longer in danger & the physical symptoms are no longer necessary.

A great example of a physical reaction to emotional input is in Sex & the City when Carrie breaks out in a severe rash after trying on wedding dresses. Her body is physically reacting to the immense anxiety of marrying Aidan. This is a perfect example of a psychosomatic reaction to Carrie’s fear of marriage.

Here’s another example:

Eminem “Lose Yourself” Lyrics

“Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?


His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy there's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready, to drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud, he opens his mouth, but the words won't come out

He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now.”

Eminem is describing having a physical reaction, to his emotion of being nervous at his one shot.

The A.N.S.R

My work draws on the foundational teachings of Dr. John Sarno, a pioneer in mindbody medicine who helped establish the connection between chronic pain and the brain. I am trained through Nicole Sachs’ Sarno x Sachs Solution Practitioner Program, which expands on Dr. Sarno’s work with modern neuroscience, emotional processing, and practical nervous system tools.

Central to this approach is ANSR—Allow, Name, Stay, Release—a framework developed by Nicole Sachs to help clients safely experience and process emotions that the nervous system has learned to suppress. By teaching clients how to work with their internal experience rather than resist it, this method helps reduce the brain’s need to express distress through physical symptoms.