Chronic Pain Therapists in Houston, TX
James Flowers has been one of the most recognized and respected names in chronic pain, addiction, and pain recovery.
In founding J. Flowers Health Institute, he has advanced the process to satisfy a great void – to provide truly comprehensive assessment and evaluation for those who need a diagnosis and develop post-evaluation treatment recommendations. Dr. Flowers’s passion and dedication to his clients and his unique approach have earned him an exceptional reputation.
James Flowers has been one of the most recognized and respected names in chronic pain, addiction, and pain recovery.
In founding J. Flowers Health Institute, he has advanced the process to satisfy a great void – to provide truly comprehensive assessment and evaluation for those who need a diagnosis and develop post-evaluation treatment recommendations. Dr. Flowers’s passion and dedication to his clients and his unique approach have earned him an exceptional reputation.
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PAIN, STRESS are interwoven through mind and body interactions.
For individual, couples, adults and teens, the pursuit of ones therapeutic goals is a deeply personal endeavor, one that entails time, effort, occasional discomfort and some expense. I am keenly aware of the burden of trust, inherent in my participation in so intimate and earnest an undertaking, and will apply my clinical judgment, professional acumen, interpersonal skills and 35-years of experience, to discern and address those needs. In doing so, respect for your values, reverence for your individuality and deference to your aspirations, will guide our endeavor, enabling you to attain your goals with dignity and true contentment.
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PAIN, STRESS are interwoven through mind and body interactions.
For individual, couples, adults and teens, the pursuit of ones therapeutic goals is a deeply personal endeavor, one that entails time, effort, occasional discomfort and some expense. I am keenly aware of the burden of trust, inherent in my participation in so intimate and earnest an undertaking, and will apply my clinical judgment, professional acumen, interpersonal skills and 35-years of experience, to discern and address those needs. In doing so, respect for your values, reverence for your individuality and deference to your aspirations, will guide our endeavor, enabling you to attain your goals with dignity and true contentment.
Carolina 'cuquis'
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, EMDR, IFS, NCC
1 Endorsed
Houston, TX 77063
I work with clients who have issues related to life transitions, co-dependency issues, trauma/PTSD (which includes medical trauma), anxiety, chronic pain/ illness, social skills development, and obsessive-compulsive issues.
Struggling with life changes, identity loss, or self-esteem? Overwhelmed by anxiety, negative, and intrusive thoughts? Want to fully embrace yourself and life without regrets? As an EMDR and IFS trained therapist, a creative, and an advocate, I specialize in helping a wide demographic range—from young adults, to seniors, and including those with disabilities.
I work with clients who have issues related to life transitions, co-dependency issues, trauma/PTSD (which includes medical trauma), anxiety, chronic pain/ illness, social skills development, and obsessive-compulsive issues.
Struggling with life changes, identity loss, or self-esteem? Overwhelmed by anxiety, negative, and intrusive thoughts? Want to fully embrace yourself and life without regrets? As an EMDR and IFS trained therapist, a creative, and an advocate, I specialize in helping a wide demographic range—from young adults, to seniors, and including those with disabilities.
I work with adults struggling with anxiety, depression, chronic pain or illness, relationship issues and just plain disatisfaction.
Coming from a Gestalt perspective honoring the integral nature of body and mind, my task is to facilitate an increase your self-awareness. Insight leads to personal growth and change. I believe the relationship developed in the therapy room is a catalyst for your personal change. I am particularly curious and interested to know what it's like to be you.
I work with adults struggling with anxiety, depression, chronic pain or illness, relationship issues and just plain disatisfaction.
Coming from a Gestalt perspective honoring the integral nature of body and mind, my task is to facilitate an increase your self-awareness. Insight leads to personal growth and change. I believe the relationship developed in the therapy room is a catalyst for your personal change. I am particularly curious and interested to know what it's like to be you.
Chronic pain, people-pleasing, or life chaos?
I help you find your authentic self—because sometimes "doing the work" just means laughing, breathing, and feeling safe. We’ll unmask the layers that keep you from being truly you. Together, we’ll calm your nervous system, build self-awareness through somatic body work, vagus nerve engagement, mindfulness, and acceptance. It’s all about you, just as you are!
Chronic pain, people-pleasing, or life chaos?
I help you find your authentic self—because sometimes "doing the work" just means laughing, breathing, and feeling safe. We’ll unmask the layers that keep you from being truly you. Together, we’ll calm your nervous system, build self-awareness through somatic body work, vagus nerve engagement, mindfulness, and acceptance. It’s all about you, just as you are!
As a Licensed Professional Counselor in enjoy working with individuals dealing with chronic pain/ illness, adjustment issues, and caregiver burnout.
I enjoy working with individuals of all ages, helping them to express their feelings, desires, & objectives. Together, in a comfortable, open, and secure environment, we can work to explore and achieve these goals. Clients can expect to take away a feeling of being heard, understood, and hopefully some calm within themselves and self-appreciation.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor in enjoy working with individuals dealing with chronic pain/ illness, adjustment issues, and caregiver burnout.
I enjoy working with individuals of all ages, helping them to express their feelings, desires, & objectives. Together, in a comfortable, open, and secure environment, we can work to explore and achieve these goals. Clients can expect to take away a feeling of being heard, understood, and hopefully some calm within themselves and self-appreciation.
I am trained in EMDR, hypnosis, and IFS and apply all in working with PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression and for pain management from physical illness.
The human experience is not something that always works based on logic. Our brains are wonderful tools that can occasionally get stuck in a survival mode that leaves us feeling helpless and terrified. We can become stuck logical loops, anxious cycles, helpless before the fear of the unknown, or in a dark depression that stops us from continuing our previous goals and fun hobbies. Our past can be a reason for this. Sometimes it might be recent events at just the wrong time. It can even be a combination of small things that seemed to always shift never going away.
I am trained in EMDR, hypnosis, and IFS and apply all in working with PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression and for pain management from physical illness.
The human experience is not something that always works based on logic. Our brains are wonderful tools that can occasionally get stuck in a survival mode that leaves us feeling helpless and terrified. We can become stuck logical loops, anxious cycles, helpless before the fear of the unknown, or in a dark depression that stops us from continuing our previous goals and fun hobbies. Our past can be a reason for this. Sometimes it might be recent events at just the wrong time. It can even be a combination of small things that seemed to always shift never going away.
Dealing with depression and coping with chronic pain or illness are also treatment specialties.
People tell me that they like my gentle nature and my positive outlook. I believe in helping change start from the first session. I keep my practice from being too busy so that it is easy to get an appointment and I can be focused on my clients and their needs.
Dealing with depression and coping with chronic pain or illness are also treatment specialties.
People tell me that they like my gentle nature and my positive outlook. I believe in helping change start from the first session. I keep my practice from being too busy so that it is easy to get an appointment and I can be focused on my clients and their needs.
My specialty as a health psychologist focuses on chronic pain management, helping people manage the severity of their pain along with the frustration, sadness, exhaustion, and grief that come along with chronic pain.
Through my work with Override Health (www.override.health), I use my expertise in pain neuroscience to work with my clients to make functional and behavioral changes in line with the scientific research on how to reverse pain neural pathways and train the nervous system to break the cycle of pain.
My specialty as a health psychologist focuses on chronic pain management, helping people manage the severity of their pain along with the frustration, sadness, exhaustion, and grief that come along with chronic pain.
Through my work with Override Health (www.override.health), I use my expertise in pain neuroscience to work with my clients to make functional and behavioral changes in line with the scientific research on how to reverse pain neural pathways and train the nervous system to break the cycle of pain.
Our clinic stands at the forefront of innovative treatment for Depression, OCD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, and several other conditions, offering new hope where traditional methods may have fallen short.
Why Choose Us? We are the only clinic in Houston that integrates a diverse team of experts in anesthesiology, general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and psychotherapy. This collaborative approach ensures comprehensive ketamine therapy tailored to your individual needs.
Our clinic stands at the forefront of innovative treatment for Depression, OCD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, and several other conditions, offering new hope where traditional methods may have fallen short.
Why Choose Us? We are the only clinic in Houston that integrates a diverse team of experts in anesthesiology, general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and psychotherapy. This collaborative approach ensures comprehensive ketamine therapy tailored to your individual needs.
If you carry trauma, chronic pain, or ADHD burnout, life can feel heavier than it should.
I offer a space where you don’t have to mask, or have it all figured out. Using somatic work and expressive arts we’ll work together to release the stuck pain and patterns that no longer serve you. Therapy with me is collaborative, creative, and real—sometimes deep, sometimes lighthearted, but always grounded in what you need.
If you carry trauma, chronic pain, or ADHD burnout, life can feel heavier than it should.
I offer a space where you don’t have to mask, or have it all figured out. Using somatic work and expressive arts we’ll work together to release the stuck pain and patterns that no longer serve you. Therapy with me is collaborative, creative, and real—sometimes deep, sometimes lighthearted, but always grounded in what you need.
Tenley Fukui
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
2 Endorsed
Houston, TX 77006
Waitlist for new clients
Tapping into the mind-body connection can help decrease chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia or other problems.
I worked in chronic pain research for 20 years. My published research is on Chronic Low Back Pain Treated with Hypnosis or Biofeedback. In my private practice, I have an evidence based approach using many tools (visualization, mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, hypnosis, biofeedback, or neurofeedback) to decrease pain and anxiety.
Tapping into the mind-body connection can help decrease chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia or other problems.
I worked in chronic pain research for 20 years. My published research is on Chronic Low Back Pain Treated with Hypnosis or Biofeedback. In my private practice, I have an evidence based approach using many tools (visualization, mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, hypnosis, biofeedback, or neurofeedback) to decrease pain and anxiety.
Are you feeling stuck—stuck in cycles of pain—whether emotional, physical, or relational?
I'm master trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and EMDR, two powerful brain-based therapies that help resolve trauma and emotional pain efficiently and effectively. I also offer a space for clients who want to incorporate their Christian faith and values into the counseling process.
Are you feeling stuck—stuck in cycles of pain—whether emotional, physical, or relational?
I'm master trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and EMDR, two powerful brain-based therapies that help resolve trauma and emotional pain efficiently and effectively. I also offer a space for clients who want to incorporate their Christian faith and values into the counseling process.
I specialize in helping individuals suffering from chronic pain, and loss of control over their lives and relationships.
The clients I have seen in my practice typically live in a stressful and ever-changing world where life can be demanding, confusing, and overwhelming. You do your best to cope but nothing seems to work out. Maybe what you need is a break from the vicious cycle so you can think more clearly. Maybe having someone to listen and validate your experience is what you need. Maybe you are looking for new ideas. What ever it is, you don’t have to journey alone – as your therapist, I am here to support you in your most difficult and overwhelming moments. Together we can find a solution. ..
I specialize in helping individuals suffering from chronic pain, and loss of control over their lives and relationships.
The clients I have seen in my practice typically live in a stressful and ever-changing world where life can be demanding, confusing, and overwhelming. You do your best to cope but nothing seems to work out. Maybe what you need is a break from the vicious cycle so you can think more clearly. Maybe having someone to listen and validate your experience is what you need. Maybe you are looking for new ideas. What ever it is, you don’t have to journey alone – as your therapist, I am here to support you in your most difficult and overwhelming moments. Together we can find a solution. ..
Additionally, we provide non-opioid pain management options like acupuncture.
Dr. Shakeilla Smithbey is an integrative & family medicine board certified physician. She completed medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and completed her family and social medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. She emphasizes principles that are evidence-based, safe and effective.
Additionally, we provide non-opioid pain management options like acupuncture.
Dr. Shakeilla Smithbey is an integrative & family medicine board certified physician. She completed medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and completed her family and social medicine residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. She emphasizes principles that are evidence-based, safe and effective.
Some suffer from physical discomfort or chronic pain, while others struggle in their relationships, or engage in behaviors that both soothe and hurt them.
My therapeutic approach is based on mindfulness & somatic awareness, and is informed by attachment theories and neuroscience. I am integrating somatic therapies with traditional talk therapy, to stay attuned to you and fit your unique needs. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Polyvagal Theory, and the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP).
Some suffer from physical discomfort or chronic pain, while others struggle in their relationships, or engage in behaviors that both soothe and hurt them.
My therapeutic approach is based on mindfulness & somatic awareness, and is informed by attachment theories and neuroscience. I am integrating somatic therapies with traditional talk therapy, to stay attuned to you and fit your unique needs. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Polyvagal Theory, and the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP).
Specialties I work with: Trauma and abuse: spiritual, emotional, sexual, physical, racial; Nervous system, anxiety/depression; Boundaries and codependency; Non Monogamy; Sexual identity development, Evangelical fundamentalist Purity culture recovery; White identity development; Chronic, unidentified physical pain and stress, psychosomatic stress
At the heart of my work is a deep belief that healing is a relational process. I approach therapy from a psychodynamic perspective, where the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a powerful catalyst for growth and transformation. I integrate modern neurobiology with holistic somatic healing, creating a safe and nurturing space where body, mind, and emotions can awaken and reconnect. I specialize in a somatic-centered approach, recognizing that the body holds the key to our stories, experiences, and unprocessed emotions. I work with you to explore and release these patterns, helping you to reconnect with your true self.
Specialties I work with: Trauma and abuse: spiritual, emotional, sexual, physical, racial; Nervous system, anxiety/depression; Boundaries and codependency; Non Monogamy; Sexual identity development, Evangelical fundamentalist Purity culture recovery; White identity development; Chronic, unidentified physical pain and stress, psychosomatic stress
At the heart of my work is a deep belief that healing is a relational process. I approach therapy from a psychodynamic perspective, where the therapeutic relationship itself becomes a powerful catalyst for growth and transformation. I integrate modern neurobiology with holistic somatic healing, creating a safe and nurturing space where body, mind, and emotions can awaken and reconnect. I specialize in a somatic-centered approach, recognizing that the body holds the key to our stories, experiences, and unprocessed emotions. I work with you to explore and release these patterns, helping you to reconnect with your true self.
Are you dealing with health problems like chronic illness, chronic pain, or adjusting to a new medical diagnosis such as cancer?
I specialize in Health Psychology assessment and counseling, exploring the relationships between your health, emotions, and behaviors. Board-certified in Clinical Health Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. I see patients via telehealth ("video visits") anywhere in Texas, allowing greater access to this highly specialized service.
Are you dealing with health problems like chronic illness, chronic pain, or adjusting to a new medical diagnosis such as cancer?
I specialize in Health Psychology assessment and counseling, exploring the relationships between your health, emotions, and behaviors. Board-certified in Clinical Health Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. I see patients via telehealth ("video visits") anywhere in Texas, allowing greater access to this highly specialized service.
Additionally, I have a particular interest in exploring relationships to our bodies– through body image, conceptualization of food, sex, chronic pain, or relationship to the skin.
None of us have it all together. I am committed to holding a space where you can explore what it means to be you. I have a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design. Based on my background in design, I approach the therapeutic process with a respect for creativity and individuality. Together, we can co-create a process that is uniquely effective for you. I pull from a variety of theoretical approaches, and you will bring your own expertise– you are the curator of your own life!
Additionally, I have a particular interest in exploring relationships to our bodies– through body image, conceptualization of food, sex, chronic pain, or relationship to the skin.
None of us have it all together. I am committed to holding a space where you can explore what it means to be you. I have a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design. Based on my background in design, I approach the therapeutic process with a respect for creativity and individuality. Together, we can co-create a process that is uniquely effective for you. I pull from a variety of theoretical approaches, and you will bring your own expertise– you are the curator of your own life!
Anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, LGBTQ+ issues, chronic pain/health issues, relationship strain, vocational transitions.
Starting therapy can be awkward, stressful, and overwhelming. It's scary to trust a stranger with your private thoughts, emotions, and experiences. I am here to help you face your struggles in an open, non-judgmental, safe environment. I want to help you overcome the obstacles that are keeping you from being you.
Anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, LGBTQ+ issues, chronic pain/health issues, relationship strain, vocational transitions.
Starting therapy can be awkward, stressful, and overwhelming. It's scary to trust a stranger with your private thoughts, emotions, and experiences. I am here to help you face your struggles in an open, non-judgmental, safe environment. I want to help you overcome the obstacles that are keeping you from being you.
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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.