A transformative approach to help you explore the root cause of your pain and other somatic symptoms
Are you stuck in chronic pain?
You’ve reached a point where the medication, the physical therapies, the talk therapy doesn’t help, the medical professionals have ruled out red flags, and yet the root cause of your pain remains a mystery.
You’ve tried everything but still the pain persists?
You’ve been holding on so tight for so long you don’t know how to let go… but also you’re fearful of what you might feel if you did.
You would like to to trust your body again, to feel a sense of EASE, to feel HELD, to feel WHOLE, free from that ‘stuck’ feeling.
Recovery from unexplained chronic symptoms does not depend on finding an external ‘cure’ or on being ‘fixed’ by a third party. You can find freedom from pain. The journey starts within you. I will hold you while you take that brave journey.
“We are complicated beings with a body and a mind that are inextricably connected”.
Chronic Pain v Acute Pain
Acute pain is short term pain that develops suddenly. It is caused by tissue damage, inflammation, or other disease processes and it tends to be intense before slowly calming. Acute pain can last from a few seconds up to six months.
Chronic pain is persistent and may last for years. The pain may have originally been triggered by tissue damage but has continued beyond the time required for the tissue damage to heal.
There may have been no obvious trigger and yet the pain persists. When pain becomes chronic, the root cause of the pain is no longer a soft tissue issue, it is a central nervous system issue.
Chronic Stress
Chronic stress primes your brain for chronic pain. Chronic stress can lead to burnout and fatigue, lowered immunity and resilience, as well as other physical and emotional issues such as pain, anxiety and depression.
Chronic stress is not just caused by lack of work / life balance, it can be due to traumatic life events – current or whilst growing up.
When pain is persistent but no clear medical cause can be found it is not uncommon to feel unheard and dismissed. Equally, coming out the other side after medical diagnosis and surgery, you ‘should’ feel good but you don’t, this can result in a cycle of stress, self limiting beliefs and pain.
Why use a Trauma Informed, Somatic Approach?
Importantly, if you only treat symptoms and ignore the underlying causes, it’s like if you just trim the branches of a tree, they will grow back. The symptoms may change but the underlying root cause remains the same. For this reason, I invite you to sensitively and safely explore the less obvious causes of chronic pain; Stress, Trauma and Nervous System Dysregulation.
The key to success
Key to success is recognising that your symptom is a message from your nervous system telling you there is something that needs attending to. This important change in perspective creates a partnership between us; it moves you from being a passive recipient of a therapeutic intervention, to an empowered, self aware, active participant in your own well being.
Treatment Approaches
To help you address the underlying causes of your symptoms from a trauma informed, somatic perspective; I offer Coaching with Emotional Processing and Bodywork options to suit your needs.
Bodywork
I offer the following interchangeable options which can be taken alone or with Somatic Coaching and Emotional Processing. Please contact me to discuss your individual circumstances.
It is important to first seek guidance from your GP for chronic and/or complex issues if your issue has not been diagnosed or investigated.
Myofascial Release
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Scar Tissue Therapy
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Somatic Bodywork
Somatic Coaching and Emotional Processing
Understand and experience the powerful connection between your mind and body
Discover the impact of current and developmental stress on your body and how chronic stress manifests as chronic symptoms
Deepen your emotional and somatic (body) awareness and your connection to your SELF
Grow in capacity to contain uncomfortable sensations and learn to feel ease
Process unresolved emotions and bring about natural completion of incomplete stress responses
Address internal stress caused by self limiting beliefs and learn to feel compassion toward SELF
Feel held and safe while you develop your capacity to regulate your own nervous system
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Practice location in Dorset and online
Somatic based Coaching and Emotional Processing are available for you in the comfort of your own home via video call.
Complimentary Enquiry Call
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