Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
PRT is an evidence-based treatment for chronic pain. For our purposes we will consider chronic pain to be negative sensations that you continue to experience in your body after normal healing time has taken place. PRT is effective for things issues like chronic fatigue and anxiety as much as for fibromyalgia, migraines, arthritis and general body pains.
What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy? (From the PRT website):
”About 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain, but many do not have to. Recent neuroscience breakthroughs show that most chronic pain results from the brain misinterpreting safe messages from the body as if they were dangerous. Research has found that the brain has the power to generate pain even in the absence of physical damage.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a system of psychological techniques that retrains the brain to accurately interpret and respond to signals from the body, breaking the cycle of chronic pain. Although various treatments aim to manage pain, PRT stands apart as an evidence-based treatment to eliminate pain.”
Why PRT?
I can’t exaggerate the pleasure with which I can say: PRT eliminated my pain. I no longer consider myself to be a ‘chronic pain type’ or to fear for a future that must accommodate a certain amount of pain. And if you have chronic pain, I want the same for you. It’s an absolute game-changer.
Over the duration of our 5 sessions you will develop an entirely new understanding of why you are in pain and how you got to where you are right now. For some people pure PRT works well, for others a deeper exploration becomes necessary - this is where I will introduce Inner Parts Work (IFS-informed), guided visualisations or breathwork if this feels good and is useful for you.
You will learn to regulate your nervous system (the pain messenger) as well as posture tweaks and somatic exercises. Teaching you these menas that you are then able to keep yourself pain-free after our sessions.
Treatment structure and fees
PRT sessions are offered online as a preference but get in touch if you want to discuss attending in-person.
PRT sessions work to undo the habits of being in pain. This works best by attending an initial 3-5 longer sessions (45-60 mins) a few days to a week apart; and then 3-6 further 30 min session over a number of week or months depending on how long it takes to completely retrain your neural pathways.
Assessment, 60 mins, £80
Treatments: £60 for 50mins x 4 sessions.
(5 sessions is our expected number to make a big impact. If further sessions are needed these will cost less (we can discuss) and will be shorter as your pain/condition clears. You may want to check in every few months to keep pain pathways clear.
Reviews for this course
Chronic anxiety with heart palpitations
Chronic shoulder pain
Chronic fatigue and bowel issues
Musculoskeletal pain following childbirth
‘Following 14 major operations on my lower back and neck, I contacted Laine with a mix of desperation and scepticism. Since 1998 I had tried all of the usual stuff for the increasingly disabling and depressing chronic pain in my body - Physio, chiro, morphine, buprenorphine patches, cocodamol, tramadol and more.
After the very first session with Laine, I felt hugely encouraged at having found a therapist who understood, empathised and had an approach that dug deeper than just the symptoms; instead looking to help me understand deep seated psychological stuff behind my chronic pain.
Laine has a “real”, yet sensitive approach, making it very easy for me to recall, share and finally understand deeply private stuff reaching right back to my teens. I am 59 now, so that stuff’s been in there a long time!
By the 3rd session my pain was hugely reduced - So much so that I realised I had not taken cocodamol, tramadol or oramorph for 3 days.
Weeks later, the process continues and I feel I am getting my life back. Hard to believe, but true! I cannot recommend Laine too highly - Do it! :)’
Ian O