MIndful living and stress management
Join other like-minded individuals in pursuit of a healthy focus on increasing your well-being! This is a 6 week practice-based group for exploring mindfulness, tuning into your inner calm, and learning creative and mind-body strategies to reduce stress, increase well-being, ...
Hosted by Danica R Delgado
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Hartford, CT 06105
Join other like-minded individuals in pursuit of a healthy focus on increasing your well-being! This is a 6 week practice-based group for exploring mindfulness, tuning into your inner calm, and learning creative and mind-body strategies to reduce stress, increase well-being, ...
Chronic Medical Conditions (CMC) Group
Do you suffer from a chronic medical condition, pain, or physical disability that has impacted your functioning, happiness, and overall wellbeing? Do you feel lost and alone? How do you cope? Countless of individuals suffer alone with many unanswered questions ...
Do you suffer from a chronic medical condition, pain, or physical disability that has impacted your functioning, happiness, and overall wellbeing? Do you feel lost and alone? How do you cope? Countless of individuals suffer alone with many unanswered questions ...
Guided Imagery for Pain Relief
We use relaxation skills including deep breathing techniques and guided imagery to minimize pain.
Hosted by Jill Meyers, LCSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Westport, CT 06880
We use relaxation skills including deep breathing techniques and guided imagery to minimize pain.
Stress management
I can facilitate Cancer recovery, Addiction recovery, meditation, guided imagery, art therapy, and pain reduction groups for you and 6 others minimum. In a venue or conducive location of your choice.
Hosted by Audrey Bennett
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LADC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Bristol, CT 06010
I can facilitate Cancer recovery, Addiction recovery, meditation, guided imagery, art therapy, and pain reduction groups for you and 6 others minimum. In a venue or conducive location of your choice.
EFT aka Meridian Tapping
By tapping on certain energy centers (meridians) and stating problems outloud we allow the energy and the intensity with which we feel problems to lighten. We leave feeling much lighter and able to cope with our circumstances. Starting January 2020
Hosted by Christina Lake
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, EMDR, EFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Middletown, CT 06457
By tapping on certain energy centers (meridians) and stating problems outloud we allow the energy and the intensity with which we feel problems to lighten. We leave feeling much lighter and able to cope with our circumstances. Starting January 2020
Healing the Emotional Aspects of Illnesses
Join together to reestablish your lost power, find a sense of balance and a renewed ability to move on with life.
In a safe, supportive and compassionate environment you will explore body/mind stress reduction and pain management tools along with energy ...
Hosted by Denise Weber
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, DCEP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Weston, CT 06883
Join together to reestablish your lost power, find a sense of balance and a renewed ability to move on with life.
In a safe, supportive and compassionate environment you will explore body/mind stress reduction and pain management tools along with energy ...
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Chronic Pain Support Groups
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, catastrophizing, 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 behavioral 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.