Pain Reprocessing Therapy focuses on neuroplastic pain and other chronic mind-body symptoms — real pain that is generated by the brain rather than caused by ongoing tissue damage.

While every person’s experience is unique, some common indicators include:

• Symptoms that move or change location

• Symptoms that increase during stress or emotional strain

• Medical tests that show little or no structural cause

• Symptoms that began during or after a stressful life period

• Symptoms that fluctuate day to day

• Symptoms that worsens with fear, attention, or worry

• Symptoms that improve when you feel calm, safe, or distracted

• Lingering pain after an injury has healed

The hopeful part is that the brain is capable of learning safety again, and these pathways can change.

Absolutely. Many chronic symptoms — such as fatigue, headaches or migraines, dizziness, nausea, IBS and other gastrointestinal issues, tinnitus, neuropathy, insomnia or other sleep difficulties, vertigo, POTS-like symptoms, skin changes, and other persistent medically unexplained sensations— share the same brain-based mechanisms that maintain chronic pain. PRT helps retrain the nervous system’s response to these sensations, often leading to noticeable improvement.

Chronic pain affects over a billion people worldwide, and many cases are not caused by ongoing structural injury.

Modern neuroscience shows that the brain can misinterpret safe signals from the body as dangerous. When this happens, the brain produces real pain as a protective response — even when the body is structurally safe.

Pain is meant to function as an alarm system. But sometimes that alarm becomes overactive.

Neuroplastic pain can show up as:

• Back pain, neck pain, knee pain, etc.

• Fibromyalgia

• Tension & migraine headaches

• CRPS

• Repetitive strain injuries

• Pelvic pain

• Jaw pain

• Vertigo

• Whiplash

• Osteoarthritis

• Irritable bowel syndrome 

• Long COVID

• Chronic fatigue syndrome

• …and other chronic symptoms

The pain is real — but it is being generated by learned neural pathways rather than tissue damage.

The hopeful part: the brain can learn safety again.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is an evidence-based approach designed to retrain the brain’s interpretation of pain signals.

Rather than focusing on managing symptoms alone, PRT works at the level where chronic pain is being maintained — the nervous system and brain.

In our work together, we may use tools such as:

• Somatic Tracking — noticing sensations with curiosity instead of fear

• Cognitive Reframing — shifting the brain’s danger interpretations

• Safety Signaling — reinforcing cues of physical safety

• Emotional awareness — processing underlying stress patterns

• Gradual exposure — rebuilding trust with movement and activity

This approach helps interrupt the pain-fear cycle and supports long-term relief.

Yes.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy is designed to treat neuroplastic pain, but it can also be helpful for people who have both structural conditions and a mind-body component to their symptoms.

In situations where a medical condition exists — such as arthritis, MS, injury history, or post-surgical pain — PRT does not replace medical care.

Instead, it helps reduce the additional distress created by:

• Fear of pain

• Nervous system overactivation

• Muscle tension

• Hypervigilance

• The brain’s amplified danger response

Many people with “mixed pain” experience meaningful relief when the nervous system learns that it is safe again.

PRT can be used alongside medical treatment.

Healing timelines vary for each person, but research offers helpful guidance.

A randomized controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry found:

• 98% of participants improved with PRT

• 66% were pain-free or nearly pain-free after treatment

• Most improvements remained one year later

Many clients begin noticing meaningful shifts within 8–12 sessions, though progress depends on factors such as nervous system sensitivity, fear patterns, and life stressors.

This work is collaborative and paced to feel supportive — not rushed.

Coaching sessions are individualized and designed to support you to:

• Learn about neuroplastic pain and recovery

• Gather and reinforce personalized evidence that your pain is neuroplastic

• Learn and practice tools for responding differently to pain

• Increase nervous system regulation

• Address pain triggers, including emotional and social/environmental threats

• Identify and implement tools for self-care

• Reintroduce and begin new activities to live life the way you envision

• Create a relapse prevention plan