Chronic pain is often stressful and can take a significant toll on your quality of life. Psychological approaches aim to help you live life as fully as possible with chronic pain.
Our pain management team includes a licensed psychologist who specializes in cognitive and behavioral approaches to coping with chronic pain. Following a thorough assessment of your pain and how it affects your life, you and the psychologist can collaboratively design a plan to work on together.
This plan may include:
Exploring what makes your life meaningful and how to begin to make changes toward more meaning in your life.
Looking at how thoughts and emotions interact with pain and working with thoughts and feelings to lessen their detrimental impact on your life.
Setting goals to maximize functioning.
Moving forward in life with pain and less suffering.
