Chronic Pain Recovery Through Mind-Body Coaching in Sussex & Online.
Beyond Treating the Symptoms.
A Different, Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding and Freeing Yourself From Chronic Pain & Fatigue.
Sometimes a real turning point in recovery is recognising that you have more influence over the process than you may have realised.
If you’ve spent months or years moving from one treatment to the next for back pain, sciatica, fibromyalgia, CRPS, migraine, disc problems or other persistent symptoms, such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Long Covid, it can start to feel as though the answer is always somewhere outside of you.
A mind-body approach offers a different way of looking at things—helping you understand what may be keeping your symptoms going, and where you may have more influence than you realised, giving you back your power, without putting heaps of pressure on yourself.
What I Do.
I help people with chronic pain and fatigue understand how the brain and nervous system can keep symptoms going, and use a mind-body approach to reduce fear, rebuild trust in the body and return to the things that matter.
Let's start by stating the obvious: Chronic pain and fatigue have a way of shrinking your life, and that sucks, but chronic No Longer Means Permanent.
Pain science has come a long way in the last two decades, and much of it still hasn't reached the people who need it most. Researchers now understand that most unexplained, persistent symptoms are neuroplastic — caused or made worse by an overprotective and overstimulated nervous system rather than ongoing damage. Around the world, people who'd been told their pain was permanent or that they just had to live with it are recovering.
That means you can too. Real hope exists for your recovery; it is not an impossible dream.
Understanding the Mind-Body Connection is the First Step to Becoming Symptom-Free.
Conventional approaches focus on treating symptoms in isolation- injuries, tissues, and joints- but it’s rarely that simple.
Pain isn't the body failing; it predicts and protects.
The Mind-Body Connection recognises that your brain, nervous system, and physical sensations aren’t separate systems—they are one continuous feedback loop.
This is why approaches that treat the body in isolation often fall short. Real, lasting change requires understanding the whole person —the brain, mind, body, nervous system, stress hormone system, immune system, thoughts, and beliefs—not just one part of the body.
If you feel like ‘you’ve tried everything’ and are still struggling, then maybe the answer isn’t more of the same, and that’s a possibility worth considering. The missing piece isn’t another treatment or another attempt at a quick fix; it’s understanding how you learned this predictive, protective response, and how you can change it.
This is Where Evidence-Based Recovery Begins
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The Science Behind Your Pain
Understanding your pain is often the first step towards change. We start by exploring how the brain and nervous system can generate and maintain persistent pain, and how that relates to your story, symptoms, and experiences.
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Creating Safety
Persistent pain often keeps the nervous system in a protective state. This part of the work helps your brain and body feel less threatened by symptoms, movement, and everyday activity.
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Inner Shifts
Lasting change often means challenging the patterns that have kept you stuck in protection—fear, worry, beliefs, identity, and the emotional responses that keep your nervous system braced for danger.
You CAN Recover From Chronic Pain and Other Chronic Health Symptoms.
Let Me Help You.
If you're at your wits’ end, tired of chasing quick fixes, have had your symptoms for more than 3 months, and are ready to begin the healing journey to trust your body again, I work with you to go beyond those symptoms so you can rediscover the freedom of a life beyond pain.
Recovery can give you back your future. A future where you can start making plans again.
To explore a mind-body coaching approach that meets your needs, click the button below to take the first step. I offer a free initial consultation if you'd like to see how I can help.
My work is not a replacement for medical care, and it is not intended to treat conditions with an underlying pathology that requires direct medical management - such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer-related pain or neurological impairment.
If you are experiencing pain and haven't had a medical assessment yet, I'd always recommend seeing your doctor first. This isn't a formality — it's an important step to rule out conditions that need medical treatment, so that any further work, including mine, is appropriate and safe for your specific situation.
What Can Change
When pain is no longer functioning on autopilot, things can begin to shift. This may include a reduction in fear and symptom focus, fewer flare-ups, greater ease in the body, and a stronger sense of trust in yourself again, so you can do anything you want. For many people, change also shows up in everyday life — sleeping better, feeling calmer, more confidence in your body, and no longer feeling so defined by pain.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This work may be helpful for chronic or persistent pain and symptoms where the brain and nervous system are likely playing an important role — especially when symptoms have continued beyond expected healing, fluctuate, or are affected by stress, fear, or emotional overload.
This may include:
Fibromyalgia
Chronic back pain
Chronic neck pain
Neuropathic pain
Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) / mind-body pain
Persistent headaches or migraines
Jaw pain/tension
IBS and stress-related physical symptoms
It may also help where pain has become sensitised, overprotective, or stuck in a learned loop, even if there is no clear ongoing injury or structural cause.
This approach is not about saying pain is “just psychological”. It is about recognising the very real role the brain, nervous system, and learned pain patterns can play in ongoing symptoms.
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It usually means the opposite of what people fear — it means there's no ongoing structural damage to worry about, which is genuinely good news. But "nothing showing on the scan" alongside "still in real pain" is exactly the pattern this work addresses. The absence of damage doesn't mean the absence of pain; it points to a nervous system that's learned to stay on high alert.
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No. Your pain is completely real — What the research shows is that persistent pain is often generated and maintained by the brain and nervous system. Understanding that mechanism is what opens the door to change. It's not about thinking your way out of pain — it's about retraining the system that's producing it.
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Most of those approaches, quite rightly, focus on the body — the tissue, the joint, the muscle. This work focuses on the nervous system and the brain's role in keeping pain switched on, which is usually missing when physical treatment alone hasn't resolved things. — It's often the missing half of the picture for pain that's persisted despite good physical treatment.
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This varies from person to person.
Everyone’s experience of pain is different, and the number of sessions needed will depend on a range of factors — including how long the pain has been there, how much fear or stress has become linked to it, and how ready you are for change.
Some people notice shifts quite quickly, while for others the process is more gradual.
My aim is always to work in a focused and personalised way, so that sessions are tailored to what you need rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.
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All my work is currently carried out online via secure, private video calls on Zoom. Online sessions offer a convenient way to access therapy without leaving home, allowing you to create your own healing space. This can be particularly beneficial for chronic and persistent pain conditions.
In some cases, home visits may be available throughout East Sussex & North London alongside limited clinic-based services in Brighton.
