Chronic Pain Counselling in Hadleigh

Lorraine Anne Bygrave
Psychotherapist, MBACP
Serves Area
I’m Lorraine Bygrave, a qualified EMDR and IFS Therapist with expertise in adoption and Attachment-Informed Therapy. I specialise in supporting adult survivors of childhood abuse, trauma, and PTSD, offering a compassionate and tailored approach to healing. My work combines EMDR, IFS, and IADC Therapy to release stuck grief, process unresolved emotions, and address the root causes of your challenges.
I’m Lorraine Bygrave, a qualified EMDR and IFS Therapist with expertise in adoption and Attachment-Informed Therapy. I specialise in supporting adult survivors of childhood abuse, trauma, and PTSD, offering a compassionate and tailored approach to healing. My work combines EMDR, IFS, and IADC Therapy to release stuck grief, process unresolved emotions, and address the root causes of your challenges.
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Kim Strong
Counsellor, MBACP
Serves Area
I provide a safe, supportive and confidential space in which clients can seek insight into any issues of concern. My individual clientele spends all ages including children. I also work with couples and families. Short or long-term therapy is offered. My extensive training allows me to draw upon multiple disciplines to tailor the support to the needs of the client.
I provide a safe, supportive and confidential space in which clients can seek insight into any issues of concern. My individual clientele spends all ages including children. I also work with couples and families. Short or long-term therapy is offered. My extensive training allows me to draw upon multiple disciplines to tailor the support to the needs of the client.
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Counselling With Laura Clark
Counsellor, MBACP
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Hi, I'm Laura Clark an Integrative Counsellor working with mums and parent/carers. I explore with you the past, present, and future and the world around you. You want to feel like yourself again, not someone “holding everything together.” You want to feel lighter, more hopeful, and more resilient to enjoy life and relationships, not just survive each day. So if you are - Experiencing anxiety, stress, or feeling low Struggling with low self-esteem, self-criticism, guilt, and shame Feeling a loss of identity Feeling relationship dynamics changing Please get in touch Member of the BACP, NCPS, also DBS & GPDR checked & cleared
Hi, I'm Laura Clark an Integrative Counsellor working with mums and parent/carers. I explore with you the past, present, and future and the world around you. You want to feel like yourself again, not someone “holding everything together.” You want to feel lighter, more hopeful, and more resilient to enjoy life and relationships, not just survive each day. So if you are - Experiencing anxiety, stress, or feeling low Struggling with low self-esteem, self-criticism, guilt, and shame Feeling a loss of identity Feeling relationship dynamics changing Please get in touch Member of the BACP, NCPS, also DBS & GPDR checked & cleared
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I have experience in pain management too.
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Chronic Pain Counsellors
How does chronic pain therapy work?
Engaging with a psychotherapist to help treat chronic pain does not mean that one’s pain is all in their head. Therapy for chronic-pain patients has been shown to benefit both the mind and the body, targeting physical symptoms and increasing daily functioning. In other words, for many, addressing their emotional health through therapy affects their physical health. A therapist can help a client challenge unhelpful thoughts about pain and develop new ways to respond to it, such as distraction or calming breathing techniques. Studies have found that therapy can be as effective as surgery for certain cases of chronic pain and many doctors recommend trying psychotherapy in advance of considering invasive surgery.

What are the most effective treatment options for chronic pain?
Stress, anxiety, depression, catastrophising, ruminating, lack of activity, and social withdrawal all make chronic pain worse. Addressing these issues, research shows, can help people gain control over their pain symptoms. Therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy, biofeedback, and mindfulness-based stress reduction, along with greater pain-management education, have been found to help people reduce fear and disability.

Are there new treatments for chronic pain?
Many cases of chronic pain, particularly those involving back pain, remain medically unexplained. But there is evidence that changes in the brain or nervous system are caused by previous physical ailments such as tissue damage; in such cases, the brain may continue to send out pain signals despite the physical cause having healed. To aid patients under these circumstances, a recently developed treatment known as pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) is designed to help the brain “unlearn” this response. A PRT practitioner helps individuals to reduce the “threat value” of their ongoing pain signals until they can reappraise them as less threatening and fear-inducing. They also help an individual to develop new emotional regulation skills.

How long does therapy for chronic pain take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from chronic pain, especially as there may be a range of physical and psychological causes for any individual’s discomfort, but most patients should expect to see a therapist for a number of weeks or months, typically spanning at least 12 sessions. Studies of pain reprocessing therapy found that many individuals’ experience of pain lessened in eight sessions over four weeks.