Therapeutic Approaches
pain reprocessing therapy (prt)
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a Neuropsychological healing approach that helps to reduce chronic pain symptoms by teaching the brain to reinterpret pain signals as being safe sensations rather than dangerous ones. This therapeutic modality is based on the understanding that many forms of persistent pain are generated by conditioned neural pathways rather than ongoing physical injury.
PRT helps individuals understand how stress, fear, and past experiences can condition the nervous system into a heightened state of protection, which can amplify pain. Through cognitive reframing, somatic tracking, and graded exposure exercises, clients learn to reduce their fear responses and retrain their brains toward safety. Benefits of PRT often include significant reductions in chronic pain, improved emotional regulation, greater confidence in movement, decreased medical anxiety, and a restored sense of agency and resilience in daily life.
Emotional Awareness & Expression therapy (EAET)
Emotional Awareness & Expression Therapy (EAET) is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals process past experiences and identify and express emotions that may feel suppressed or misunderstood. Rooted in the idea that unresolved emotional experiences can often manifest as physical pain or psychological symptoms, EAET guides clients in safely exploring their feelings, recognizing emotional triggers, and communicating emotions more openly. By increasing emotional clarity and reducing avoidance, EAET can help to ease chronic pain, lower anxiety, improve mood, and help individuals build healthier patterns of coping and connection.
This approach empowers clients to cultivate a new sense of emotional agency within themselves. Which ultimately helps to rewrite the narrative hold that trauma often exerts over our lives.
nervous system regulation therapy
Our nervous system is a coordinated neural network of information systems. With the life-sustaining job of carrying crucial messages between our brains and the rest of our body. Our nervous system controls the whole show.
The sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) manages internal responses associated with safety, stress, and trauma survival (fight or flight). While the parasympathetic branch of the (ANS) promotes internal states of relaxation, stress re-calibration, and improved organ system function.
By practicing certain grounding techniques, we can soothe an over-activated sympathetic (ANS) response. Allowing our parasympathetic (ANS) response to come back online again. Effectively, reinstating balance and regulatory function throughout our whole body.
Somatic Tracking Therapy
Somatic Tracking is a mind-body technique used in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), which helps us develop less fearful responses to sensations occurring within the body. This approach incorporates mindfulness, mood intentionality, and internal safety reappraisal to help the brain create new neural pathways. Which then enables the mind and body to interpret previously threatening sensations (pain, fear, etc.) in new ways.