Your Path to Freedom From Chronic Pain & Symptoms Starts Here.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy and mindbody work are evidence-based approaches that help the brain unlearn chronic pain and stress symptoms that are no longer caused by tissue damage. By addressing how the nervous system processes threat, emotion, and past experience, this work helps reduce symptoms at the source—rather than managing them indefinitely.

Founded by the late Dr. John Sarno of NYU, TMS or tension myositis syndrome is a mind-body condition where repressed emotions (like anger, anxiety, guilt) can cause real physical pain and other symptoms (back pain, IBS, fibromyalgia, headaches, chronic fatigue & more) by triggering mild oxygen deprivation in muscles and tissues via the autonomic nervous system.

The pain you are experiencing is real, but the answer is not a structural 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.

 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. Healing is found in calming your nervous system and your brain. 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 the solution is developing new neuropathways through the exercises & education that I will teach you and we will do together.

  • Everyone heals differently and on their own timeline 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.

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.