Chronic Pain Therapists in 19134
Rachel Sims
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
Philadelphia, PA 19134 (Online Only)
With 12+ years experience in the mental health field, I specialize in providing tools to help you get past the pain of life changes, overwhelming anxiety and depression, and feel better again.
Are you struggling with anxiety, stress, or depression? Do you find emotions and coping with life overwhelming? Now might be the time to work with a therapist who can help. I specialize in Anxiety, ADHD, Autism, OCD, Bipolar, Trauma/PTSD. Let's work together to create a plan so you start feeling better quickly.
With 12+ years experience in the mental health field, I specialize in providing tools to help you get past the pain of life changes, overwhelming anxiety and depression, and feel better again.
Are you struggling with anxiety, stress, or depression? Do you find emotions and coping with life overwhelming? Now might be the time to work with a therapist who can help. I specialize in Anxiety, ADHD, Autism, OCD, Bipolar, Trauma/PTSD. Let's work together to create a plan so you start feeling better quickly.
Charles Tyson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Philadelphia, PA 19134 (Online Only)
Deeply passionate about social justice and facilitating and guiding positive change and development in the lives of others, my name is Charles Tyson (they/them), and I am thrilled to connect with you as you begin your journey inward. Healing is truly the risk of showing up for yourself and your resistance to the temptation to go back to unsilenced needs, numbing out, disconnection, and erasure. As a Black, non-binary, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 10 years of wide-ranging clinical and field experience, I look forward to tailoring my approach to meet your needs and help you reach your goals.
Deeply passionate about social justice and facilitating and guiding positive change and development in the lives of others, my name is Charles Tyson (they/them), and I am thrilled to connect with you as you begin your journey inward. Healing is truly the risk of showing up for yourself and your resistance to the temptation to go back to unsilenced needs, numbing out, disconnection, and erasure. As a Black, non-binary, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over 10 years of wide-ranging clinical and field experience, I look forward to tailoring my approach to meet your needs and help you reach your goals.
Melissa Bazydlo
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Philadelphia, PA 19134 (Online Only)
Hello, my name is Melissa Bazydlo and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Philadelphia, working with patients statewide using telehealth. I work with adults and specialize in utilizing a holistic, strengths-based approach with patients to help them achieve their goals, both inside and outside of treatment.
Hello, my name is Melissa Bazydlo and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Philadelphia, working with patients statewide using telehealth. I work with adults and specialize in utilizing a holistic, strengths-based approach with patients to help them achieve their goals, both inside and outside of treatment.
Please call me Lori. I am a Licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania. I offer therapeutic tools and a safe space to focus on healing. I often use an eclectic mix of therapy tools and techniques that I have found helpful in working with clients over the past 34 years. These include primarily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic, Mindfulness-Based and Psychodynamic Therapy. I frequently work with clients who are struggling with the limitations of past traumatic experiences, anxiety, depression, and negative thoughts.
Please call me Lori. I am a Licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania. I offer therapeutic tools and a safe space to focus on healing. I often use an eclectic mix of therapy tools and techniques that I have found helpful in working with clients over the past 34 years. These include primarily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Humanistic, Mindfulness-Based and Psychodynamic Therapy. I frequently work with clients who are struggling with the limitations of past traumatic experiences, anxiety, depression, and negative thoughts.
Sallee Decker
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Philadelphia, PA 19134 (Online Only)
I Integrate a holistic approach to help address the physical and emotional issues that come along with stress, overwhelm, and trauma. I Integrate a holistic approach to help address the physical and emotional issues that come along with stress, overwhelm, and trauma. I will spend time helping you learn grounding techniques coping skills and mindfulness. I use a variety of modalities including CBT, mindfulness, somatic experience, nontraditional techniques, and more.
I Integrate a holistic approach to help address the physical and emotional issues that come along with stress, overwhelm, and trauma. I Integrate a holistic approach to help address the physical and emotional issues that come along with stress, overwhelm, and trauma. I will spend time helping you learn grounding techniques coping skills and mindfulness. I use a variety of modalities including CBT, mindfulness, somatic experience, nontraditional techniques, and more.
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Chronic Pain Therapists
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.