Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Chronic pain can take away your ability to enjoy life, and it’s often made worse by a brain that’s stuck on high alert, misreading the body’s signals as danger. This pain is real, not imagined and together, we can help your brain unlearn it.
Understanding Your Pain
Together, we’ll explore how the brain processes pain signals and why chronic pain can persist even after the body has healed. Understanding this connection is often the first step toward relief.
Building a Sense of Safety
I’ll support you in learning to attend to pain sensations, and the stress and emotions tied to them, from a place of safety rather than fear helping your nervous system recognize there’s no threat.
Reclaiming Movement and Joy
Using the brain’s natural neuroplasticity, we’ll work toward retraining how your body responds to pain, encouraging movement and the activities that bring you joy.
Frequently Asked Questions
PRT is an evidence-based approach for chronic pain that's caused or amplified by the brain misinterpreting the body's signals. Rather than treating pain as purely physical, PRT uses the brain's neuroplasticity to help retrain how it interprets and responds to those signals. Together, we work through education about pain science, building safety while attending to pain sensations, and addressing the stress and emotions that often keep pain cycles going.
Yes. Your pain is completely real, not imagined and not "in your head" in the way that phrase is often used. What PRT recognizes is that the brain plays a powerful role in how pain is generated and sustained, especially when it's stuck in a pattern of treating safe signals as dangerous. Understanding this connection doesn't make the pain less real, it opens up a path toward relief that purely physical treatments may have missed.
Every person's experience is different, and progress depends on factors like how long you've been living with pain and how your nervous system responds to this kind of work. Some people notice shifts within the first few sessions, while for others it's a more gradual process. We'll go at a pace that feels right for you, and check in regularly on what's working.
PRT tends to be most helpful for chronic pain conditions where structural or tissue damage doesn't fully explain the pain, or where pain has persisted well beyond normal healing time, such as chronic back pain, tension headaches, or fibromyalgia. If you're not sure whether PRT fits your situation, I'm happy to talk it through together in a free consultation.