Chronic Pain
Living with ongoing pain can be exhausting. Beyond the physical side, it can affect your mood, sleep, confidence, relationships and the things you’re able to enjoy. Many people also feel misunderstood, or worn down by the uncertainty of it all.
How therapy can help
Therapy focuses on the emotional side of living with pain. Together, we can make space for the frustration, grief or worry it brings, ease some of the stress that can make pain feel harder to live with, and find ways to be kinder to yourself on the difficult days.
Therapy works alongside your medical care, not instead of it. Please keep working with your GP or pain team on the physical side.
Choosing how we work
There are three ways we can work together. You choose whichever feels right, and you can change your mind at any point: integrative work is flexible and built around your needs and wishes.
- Counselling on its own. Space to talk about how pain has affected your life and sense of self, and to explore what support you need. Mindfulness practices can also help some people relate to pain with a little more ease.
- Hypnotherapy on its own. Solution Focused Hypnotherapy combines Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with guided relaxation in hypnosis. Many people find deep relaxation and positive suggestion helpful for easing the stress and tension that often go hand in hand with pain.
- A mixture of both. For example, talking things through in counselling, with hypnotherapy sessions alongside or later on.
Not sure which to choose? We can talk it through on your free call.
Taking the first step
If you’d like to talk, we can start with a free 20-minute phone call. It’s a chance to ask any questions and see whether working together feels right for you.