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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for chronic pain management – learning to manage and cope with pain
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for pain management - learning to manage and cope with pain using CBT
Chronic pain management therapy explained
We all suffer pain during different parts of our lives and for different reasons. For some, pain may be temporary and bearable, but for others it may be long term and chronic.
Pain affects adults and children. Suffering from chronic pain can severely affect your quality of life as well as impacting on everyday activities other people consider normal. Pain isn’t just physical, it causes distress and can affect your psychological and emotional well being.
There are many pain management guidelines and solutions that can be put in place to help you manage your pain. It is not widely known that working with a trained counsellor and psychotherapist is one way to help resolve these issues. At Pinnacle we can help with pain management offering tangible, practical solutions.
Using psychotherapy for chronic pain management primarily looks at improving your physical, emotional, social and occupational health rather than resolving the pain itself.
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Our approach to pain management
Learning to manage and cope with pain is not an easy task. There is growing evidence that many talking therapies can aid in the management of issues such as sciatica pain and chronic back pain. We can work with you and teach you how to react and manage your pain which in turn will reduce any mental suffering you are experiencing.
Treatments and therapies used for pain management
At Pinnacle we use a range of different therapies to help you manage your chronic pain. We know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different and has their own set of unique needs and circumstances. We use a combination of therapies for pain management, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
What is CBT?
CBT is about looking at the relationship between your thoughts and feelings, and how they make you ‘default’ to certain behaviours. It’s seen as a different kind of ‘talking therapy’ that aims to solve a person’s current problems. In effect it helps you become your own therapist, where you use the skills you have learned.
By using CBT, we can help make you aware of what your own defaults are: sometimes they help us, sometimes they don’t – CBT helps you recognise those different responses for what they are.
“Cognitive-behavioural skills can change the way your mind influences your body. When you shift your thinking away from the pain and change your focus to more positive aspects of your life, you change the way your body responds to the anticipated pain and stress.”
Richard Reid - CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
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Using CBT for pain management - how does it work?
By using CBT for chronic pain, we can teach you how to break out of those default patterns to become more resilient in situations you may find uncomfortable or stressful by identifying where you respond negatively and then challenging those negative thoughts with alternative, positive ones.
CBT is a way to rewire the software of your brain, rehearsing troubling situations in your mind in order to create alternative ways of thinking when that situation arises again. In effect, you’re creating new mental circuitry by challenging and changing old responses that feel hardwired in, but aren’t.
With cognitive behavioural therapy for pain, the therapist acknowledges that there may be behaviours that you cannot control through rational thought. Rather, these harmful coping strategies are as a result of prior conditioning from the environment and other internal or external stimuli.
By taking (what can feel like) insurmountable tasks and teaching you how to apply a pragmatic and objective viewpoint to these issues, CBT gradually changes the way you look at everyday challenges.
What can you expect from a CBT for pain management therapy session?
Our pain management therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. We work with individuals, couples, and teens. Our sessions usually last from 30 minutes to an hour; and our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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