Living with Chronic Illness Support Group
This is a group for folks who live with chronic illness. Participants will co-create a mutual support space to share their experience, explore the personal and societal forces that lead to body oppression, and empower each other in the process ...
Hosted by Lauren Linn
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10010
This is a group for folks who live with chronic illness. Participants will co-create a mutual support space to share their experience, explore the personal and societal forces that lead to body oppression, and empower each other in the process ...
WHI Circles
We provide on-going maintenance class to help support on-going healing, posttraumatic growth, and enhance performance.
We provide on-going maintenance class to help support on-going healing, posttraumatic growth, and enhance performance.
Gay Mens Support Group
This is a virtual Zoom group open to gay men which is an ongoing support group that focuses on the psychological, social, cognitive, financial, and health aspects of being a gay male. Support, guidance, suggestions, healing from trauma modalities, etc. ...
Hosted by Carl Nelke
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, LCSW, LLC
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10018
This is a virtual Zoom group open to gay men which is an ongoing support group that focuses on the psychological, social, cognitive, financial, and health aspects of being a gay male. Support, guidance, suggestions, healing from trauma modalities, etc. ...
Electric Kombucha Cannabis Healing Experience
This is a cannabis based group that supports maintenance healing for all who can pass the cannabis test
This is a cannabis based group that supports maintenance healing for all who can pass the cannabis test
Caregiver Support Group
The prolonged grief that comes from watching a loved one battle chronic illness is a unique struggle and often exists without many spaces to talk about it. This group is meant to hold space for those who have recently lost ...
Hosted by SteadyNYC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-R
Verified Verified
Group meets in New York, NY 10010
The prolonged grief that comes from watching a loved one battle chronic illness is a unique struggle and often exists without many spaces to talk about it. This group is meant to hold space for those who have recently lost ...
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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.