Chronic Pain Management

Pain is multidimensional in nature and it extends beyond the sensory experience. It can affect our sleep, mood, thoughts as well as our emotions. Living with pain often causes many changes including changes in our routine and activities, limiting our choices and transforming simple everyday tasks into great challenges. All these changes lead to a sense of disorganisation and while we are dealing with one aspect of the problem, another appears.

Psychotherapy is one of our greatest allies in successful pain management because it can help us re-organise our life and set new goals and priorities so that we may once again focus on what we want instead of having the pain at the centre of our lives draining us of all vitality. Just as the pain has the capacity to negatively affect our mood, our improved mood through psychotherapy has the capacity to positively affect the pain.