Bottom-up work for trauma, chronic pain, and dysregulation.
Polyvagal-informed practice, Somatic Experiencing, and condition-specific care for chronic pain, IBS, FND, and PNES — with worksheets and client explainers that meet the body where it is.
The therapies most relevant to this topic.
Body-led therapies that treat the nervous system, not just the narrative.
How to read autonomic state in the room and help a client return to ventral.
Trauma lives in the nervous system; healing happens by completing thwarted survival responses.
Chronic pain is often a learned brain prediction — therapy retrains the alarm.
IBS lives on the gut-brain axis — gut-directed hypnotherapy and CBT change the conversation.
Functional seizures are a brain-network disorder, not faking — and they respond to specific therapy.
FND is a software problem in a working brain — treatable with the right multidisciplinary approach.
First-line picks and clinical guidance for the presentations under this topic.
Pain persisting beyond expected healing time, often with depression, anxiety, and functional impairment.
Goal is improved functioning and quality of life rather than pain elimination. Psychotherapy is one component of multidisciplinary pain management.
Disruptions in identity, memory, consciousness, or perception — usually trauma-rooted.
Phase-based treatment (ISSTD guidelines): safety/stabilization → trauma processing → integration. Standard trauma protocols without preparation typically destabilize dissociative clients. Specialist supervision is essential.
Free, printable, Quick-Send to clients.
Plain-language explainers you can share or open together in session.
Anonymized vignettes with formulation across 2–3 modalities.
What changes when you sit with this population.