Chronic Pain
Living with chronic pain is exhausting and can have a myriad of negative consequences on our lives. I offer a range of courses aimed at helping you to manage your pain and the consequences it has on your life, whether that be practical consequences such as financial or relational struggles, or emotional consequences.
Available Courses
Managing Chronic Pain
Chronic pain can be debilitating and depressing and learning to effectively manage it is crucial to living a happy, fulfilled life. This course centers around identifying pain management strategies that work for YOU, whether it be natural remedies, meditation techniques, finding the right medical provider or medications or something else entirely. Furthermore, using a range of techniques we will work together to identify anything that exacerbates the pain and develop tools to limit their influence on your pain.
Advocating for yourself
Something that almost every chronic pain patient will face at some point is being dismissed, patronized or not believed by healthcare providers and others. It can be hard to get people to listen to you and even harder to get them to treat you. This course aims to identify the challenges you face around advocating for yourself and developing techniques you can use to begin to effectively advocate for yourself.
Living with Chronic Pain
This course utilizes a range of techniques to help you develop strategies to manage your pain, advocate for yourself, process the grief and emotional pain that accompanies chronic pain and begin to develop an identity and dreams outside of the chronic pain.
This is a 3 month course.
Moving Towards Independence
Chronic pain can be debilitating. It can stop you from working, living or even functioning. Because of this, many people battling chronic pain struggle to gain independence. Through a range of techniques, this course is designed to help you identify the barriers that are stopping you from living independently and help you overcome them so that you may move towards living a more independent life.
Developing a healthcare plan that works for YOU.
When you have chronic pain, frequently you are faced with many people who have many different opinions about how to manage and treat it. It can be hard to sift through everything to determine what works for you. During this course we will work together to find and develop a healthcare plan that best suits your needs.
Discovering your identity outside of chronic pain
Chronic pain can be all consuming, taking over every aspect of your life and making it feel as if all you are is your pain. During this course we will work together through a range of techniques to help you discover who you are outside of your chronic pain.
Daring to Dream
When you suffer from chronic pain it can be hard to make plans for tomorrow let alone the future as a whole. This course aims to help you rediscover your goals and dreams and begin to take steps towards them to give you a future that is more than just chronic pain.