Cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) is an effective, short-term, form of psychotherapy that helps you feel more confident in managing pain. Together, we will uncover factors that increase your pain and work toward personalized goals to improve your functioning and quality of life. During treatment, you will learn skills to change how you respond to pain, better understand how pain is processed in your brain, and gradually reintroduce activities that bring pleasure and meaning to your life. Relaxation training helps break the chronic pain cycle by teaching you how to regulate your body’s stress response and reduce tension in your body. You will also learn pacing strategies, including taking breaks before pain escalates, to help reduce pain severity and flare-ups. As pain gets worse our thoughts can often become unhelpful, which can actually increase your pain. CBT-CP focuses on identifying and challenging these unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so that you can respond more effectively to pain and stress.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of psychotherapy that helps you live a meaningful life beyond pain. ACT for chronic pain focuses on increasing openness and curiosity toward your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and experiences related to living with chronic pain, rather than struggling to eliminate them. During ACT you will explore what is really important to you in life so that you can actively choose how you respond to all your experiences through an ongoing process of commitment to your health and wellness. You will learn to incorporate mindfulness activities into your daily life through meditation and more informal methods so that you can be curious about your experiences and pay attention to what is happening right now in order to improve your awareness and wellbeing. ACT can help you live the best life possible while managing chronic pain.

A neuropsychological evaluation provides a comprehensive look at how your brain function impacts the way you think, feel, and navigate daily life. Through evidence-based testing and clinical interviews, this assessment examines attention, memory, language, processing speed, executive functioning, problem-solving, and daily habits. Results are integrated with your medical and personal history to identify your strengths and clarify your areas of difficulty. This information is used to support accurate diagnosis, guide treatment planning, and offer practical strategies for enhancing everyday functioning and quality of life.

Psychotherapy can support adjustment to chronic illness, medical trauma, or ongoing health challenges by addressing the emotional burden and the automatic patterns of thinking and reacting that emerge along the way. Together, we will explore your experience not only as a current event, but also through the lens of your broader life history. This includes examining how past challenges, relationships, and patterns influence your response to your health today. At the same time, structured, evidence-based techniques are used to help shift thoughts and behaviors that may intensify symptoms or interfere with coping. This integrated approach deepens insight, strengthens emotional resilience, and provides practical strategies to support well-being and improve overall quality of life.