Pain Reprocessing Therapy for Chronic Pain
Virtual Therapy in Colorado & New York
Chronic pain is real pain. And recovery is possible.
You don’t have to settle for living with the pain.
Chronic pain is a constant, unwanted companion. There’s the pain itself, and then there’s the hamster wheel of thoughts spinning in the back of your mind. What will trigger it next? How long it will last? Will it ever go away?
Maybe you’ve been told by doctors there’s nothing’s physically wrong with you. Maybe you’ve been given a diagnosis, or many diagnoses. You’ve attended countless medical appointments, gotten expensive scans and tests, taken medication and tried holistic treatments. But nothing seems to work for long, or new kind of pain shows up. The cycle has left you feeling defeated and hopeless.
The good news is you don’t have to learn to live with chronic pain. With Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), recovery is possible.
Why Pain Reprocessing Therapy?
With chronic pain, the brain has learned to misinterpret safe signals from the body as dangerous and respond by generating a pain sensation, like a faulty smoke detector that screeches as if the house is on fire when all you’ve done is turn on the stove. This is known as neuroplastic pain, or pain that occurs in the absence of structural damage.
In Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body approach grounded in neuroscience, you will learn evidence-based techniques that rewire the misfiring pain circuits in your brain to break the cycle of chronic pain. While this may sound too good to be true, it’s based on decades of research.
A randomized controlled trial conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder and published in JAMA Psychiatry showed PRT to be the most effective current treatment for chronic pain:
By the end of the trial, 98% of participants had reduced pain and 66% were pain-free or nearly pain-free, with gains largely maintained at a one year follow up.
After five years, 55% of PRT participants were still completely or nearly pain-free, as compared with the 26% who had received placebo care or the 36% who had been given conventional care.
How Pain Reprocessing Therapy Works:
Here’s what we’ll do.
We’ll meet twice a week for 50-minute sessions over eight weeks. (Multiple appointments allow you to more quickly and effectively retrain your brain and create new neural pathways that disrupt the pain cycle.)
In our first meeting, I’ll assess your experience with chronic pain and your personal history to identify stressors that may be reinforcing the chronic pain cycle.
In subsequent sessions you will:
Learn what drives neuroplastic pain and how and why it is reversible.
Learn and practice evidence-based tools to reduce anxiety about the pain, and to give your brain corrective experiences both in and out of sessions.
Learn how specific emotional states and suppression of emotions fuel chronic pain, how your unique response to certain emotions plays a factor in pain sensations and flare ups, and what to do about it.
Identify situational triggers that contribute to chronic pain.
What does PRT cost?
Individual PRT sessions are $150 and occur twice weekly ($300 per week) for 8 weeks.
PRT sessions are self-pay. You are welcome to pay with your Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) or request a superbill to submit for out-of-network benefits.