Chronic Pain & Mind-Body Health

Integrative therapy for people living with ongoing symptoms, stress, and fatigue

When health challenges go deeper than the body

Living with a chronic health condition, whether it’s pain, fatigue, GI distress, or a lingering recovery, often affects more than just the body. Over time, symptoms can disrupt sleep, strain relationships, undermine confidence, and create constant uncertainty about what your body will do next.

Many people arrive here after seeing specialists, following recommendations, and doing everything “right,” yet still finding themselves stuck in cycles of symptoms and stress. My work focuses on helping people understand and gently shift the patterns that keep those cycles going, using an approach grounded in science, collaboration, and care.

What I Help With

You don’t need a formal diagnosis to benefit from therapy. I work with people managing a wide range of ongoing symptoms and stress-related conditions, including:

Chronic pain (e.g., fibromyalgia, back or neck pain, migraine)
Fatigue, including long COVID
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and other GI issues
Insomnia or disrupted sleep
Health-related anxiety or medical trauma
Post-illness adjustment and recovery
Stress that shows up physically

Whether you’re newly diagnosed or years into managing your condition, therapy can help you feel more grounded, resilient, and better able to influence what happens next.

How I Work

My approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, biofeedback, and neurofeedback, adapting to your needs as we go. Our work together is focused on practical change.

Together, we work to:

Understand how your symptoms and stress responses interact
Learn skills to reduce your physiological reactivity and support recovery
Develop tools for coping with your pain, uncertainty, and emotional burnout
Re-engage with parts of your life that feel meaningful and steady

There’s no one-size-fits-all model here. Our work is tailored, collaborative, and focused on what works.

The Mind-Body Connection

Chronic stress can amplify symptoms. Pain can feed anxiety. Lack of sleep can make everything harder.

But this connection also means we have more entry points for healing.

What happens in the body affects the mind, and the reverse is just as true:

By learning to regulate your nervous system, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and create small changes in how you respond to stress, you can start to feel more at home in your body again.

What happens in the body affects the mind, and the reverse is just as true:

Over time, these loops become ingrained—not because you’re doing anything wrong, but because your nervous system is doing its job too well. Poor sleep, ongoing stress, and repeated symptom flare-ups can further strengthen these patterns.

The good news is that this connection also gives us more entry points for healing. By learning how to regulate your nervous system, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and respond differently to stress, you can reduce reactivity and regain a greater sense of self-control.

A Different Kind of Support

If you’re tired of being dismissed, told to “just manage,” or left to navigate complex symptoms on your own, this work may offer something different. The goal is not to deny the reality of your symptoms, but to help you work with your body more effectively so symptoms have less control over your life.

If you’d like to explore whether this approach might be a good fit, I invite you to schedule a free 20-minute consultation. We can talk through what’s been happening and whether this kind of work feels right for you.