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Rewire Your Relationship to Pain with Pain Coaching

A program for people ready to rebuild their life after chronic pain.

What I Do

You’ve done everything right. You've followed doctor’s orders, taken the meds, pushed through and yet, the pain continues. You’ve likely been told, “You just have to live with it.”

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I help people who are living in persistent pain change the way their nervous system responds to life. Together, we explore how stress, patterns of survival, and long-held beliefs are keeping the pain experience alive, and we gently begin to change that.

Who I Help

Living with pain that lingers beyond the normal healing window can feel isolating, frustrating, and overwhelming, especially when you’ve done everything you were told and still haven’t found relief.

 

Many of my clients are caring, capable people who’ve spent years trying to manage pain while holding their lives together. They often feel dismissed by the medical system and unsure where to turn next.

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This program is designed for people who are ready for a different approach: one that doesn’t focus on fixing you, but on understanding the deeper patterns that shape your pain experience.

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My Pain Coach's Programs are for you if...

  • You’ve been in chronic pain for months or even decades

  • You’ve tried everything

  • You’re exhausted by the idea of “managing” your pain for life

  • You’re open to a different way to change the pain narrative. One that includes how your brain and body interact...

…then this coaching program to change the pain experience was built with you in mind.

Program Outcomes: Findings from the My Pain Coach Pain Coaching Program (2022–2025)

How Working with A Pain Coach Works

This is not traditional medical treatment or mental health therapy.
I’m not here to tell you what to do. I’m here to help you see your path more clearly through pain coaching.

Through private, one-on-one virtual coaching sessions, I help you:

  • Understand how your pain is being shaped by your body’s stress response

  • Make small but powerful lifestyle changes to support changing your pain experience

  • Reconnect with the parts of yourself you’ve had to set aside to survive

  • Begin building a life that supports your nervous system and honors who you are now

All sessions are held through the secure Practice Better platform (Apple, Google).

What Makes This Different

Most traditional pain treatments focus on managing symptoms through medication, procedures, or generic advice. While these approaches may offer short-term relief, they often overlook how pain becomes wired into the nervous system especially after months or years of stress, fear, or emotional suppression.

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This program is different because it addresses the root drivers of chronic pain through neuroscience-informed pain coaching.

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I use trauma-informed communication and whole person advanced pain coaching methods to help you uncover what’s keeping your nervous system in a protective state and how to gently shift it.

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We don’t override your body. We listen to it.
We don’t chase quick fixes. We create sustainable long-term change.

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You’ll be guided by someone who’s lived with pain for nearly five decades and has made it to the other side not because I pushed through, but because I learned how to change the pain experience itself.

Change the Pain Experience—Not Just Manage It

Instead of relying on symptom management, we work together to change your relationship with pain using education, emotional tools, and brain-based strategies that support lasting change. This is not a one-size-fits-all plan. It’s personalized, coach-guided, and rooted in science and lived experience.​

Here’s what you can expect:

  • Learn how chronic pain is processed in the brain and how it can change.

  • Understand the connection between pain, emotions, stress, and past experiences.

  • Practice evidence-informed strategies that calm the nervous system and retrain pain pathways.

  • Build confidence in your body again—even if you’ve been stuck for years.

  • Receive step-by-step coaching support as you apply tools in real life.

  • Shift from fear and frustration to clarity and possibility.

  • Book your free 30-minute consult session today to find out if this approach is the right fit for you.

Ready for a New Direction?

You don’t have to commit to the full program to get started. Let’s talk.

Book a free 30-minute consultation to learn more about pain coaching or subscribe to The Pain Experience Newsletter to begin learning how to change the pain experience from the inside out.

Our Pain Coaching Program Outcomes + Research Support

Findings from My Pain Coach: The C.H.A.N.G.E. Lab: Chronic Pain Edition™️ Pain Coaching Program (2022–2025)

From 2022–2025, clients in the My Pain Coach Program reported meaningful improvements in both daily life and their pain experience.

  • Life Satisfaction
    On average, within 4-6 weeks of beginning The C.H.A.N.G.E. Lab: Chronic Pain Edition™️ Program, about 7 out of 10 clients reported feeling at least two points better in their weekly life experience ratings, often describing the shift as moving from “just surviving” to rediscovering activities they enjoy. 

  • Emotional Safety
    On average, clients that completed The C.H.A.N.G.E. Lab: Chronic Pain Edition™️ Program rated their life experience at 7–9 ,out of 10, compared to 3–4, out of 10, at the start, reflecting steadier emotions and stronger nervous system regulation.

  • Shifting Pain Patterns
    Clients described fewer flare-ups, quicker recovery, and less body tension and they noticed changes not just in how they coped, but in the experience of pain itself.

  • Sustainable Growth
    On average, clients who engaged in 14+ sessions maintained higher progress and consistency, even during setbacks.

How Science Supports These Outcomes

The improvements clients report align with current neuroscience on brain plasticity and pain:

  • Repetition and Timing Drive Behavior Change
    The brain rewires when safety cues are repeated and paired with stress triggers at the right moment.

  • Plasticity Explains Pain Experience Shifts
    Central sensitization — where the nervous system amplifies pain — can be reshaped by consistent brain retraining with pain reprocessing principles.

  • Harnessing Adaptive Plasticity
    Small, well-timed inputs can reset maladaptive pain protective patterns and strengthen new, healthier pathways.

In Plain Terms

Our work together helps you feel safer in your body, steadier in your emotions, reduce pain allowing you to be free to focus on what matters most. This claim is supported by both client outcomes, behavior science, and pain neuroscience.

Disclaimer: These findings reflect trends reported by clients in the My Pain Coach Program (2022–2025). Individual experiences vary, and results are not guaranteed.

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Pain Coaching Program Outcomes

Ready to Change your Pain Experience?

You don’t have to commit to the full program to get started.

Book a free 30-minute consultation to learn more about our pain coaching programs.

or subscribe to The Pain Experience Newsletter to begin learning how to change the pain experience from the inside out.

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