Individual Therapy
You will be assigned a licensed counselor or psychologist who will provide a "home base" of support and understanding. Your individual needs will be thoroughly assessed and discussed, and we will begin training and practice of the skills that lead to recovery. These include meditative training in pain and stress management, using biofeedback training and other self-calming skills, improvements in daily health habits, a movement program within your safe limits, and an increase in daily enjoyable activities. Most importantly, you will have a safe place to talk about this crisis, with an increasing understanding from your therapist as to the ways that you as an individual can use your strengths and the help from our clinic to start to recover.
Group Therapy
Pain patients need to talk to other pain patients, and people who are ill and discouraged need to encourage each other. No one really understands pain better that other pain patients, and it helps to talk to each other. Our groups provide support and encouragement to stay steady in your daily recovery efforts, while learning from each other what is working. We also use groups to deepen your understanding of the skills we are teaching, by regularly bringing in experts for more education and discussion. The bottom line is this: pain patients are at risk of getting isolated and depressed, and you deserve to be part of a community where we are being honest about how hard this all is, and where you get respect for your loss and the efforts you are starting to make to get better. We also offer specialized "Skills Groups", where we learn and practice different meditation, prayer-based, or Chi Kung techniques to help with pain management (this includes emotional pain, like depression and anxiety).