Flora Psychological Services

Chronic pain has a way of shrinking your world. What used to feel natural, ike staying active, showing up for people you love, doing the work you care about starts to feel out of reach. If that resonates, you're exactly who I work with. I'm a pain psychologist with specialized, board-certified training in clinical health psychology. My patients are living with chronic pain or illness that has worked its way into every corner of their life, their relationships, their work, their sense of who they are. They've often tried a lot of things already. What they're looking for is something that treats them like a whole person, not just body parts or sets of symptoms, and that accounts for the full weight of what they're carrying. Chronic pain is associated with changes in how our nervous system processes information. Neural circuits involving sensation, danger detection, learning, memory, emotion, and more are involved. Good pain treatment addresses these nervous system adjustments and the many life impacts of chronic pain. I encourage you to reach out for a consultation to see how pain-focused psychotherapy might help.