Specialist Hypnosis & Coaching for Chronic & Persistent Pain
Accredited Hypnotherapist & Change Coach in Brighton, East Sussex & Online.
Welcome,
I’m Geraldine,
A clinical hypnotherapist and mind-body pain specialist helping people with chronic and persistent pain, anxiety, and stress-related symptoms. Using hypnosis, nervous system regulation, and brain-based approaches, I help clients reduce pain, calm fear, and retrain unhelpful pain patterns.
If you’ve been living with chronic or persistent pain, you may already have tried medications, body-based therapies, or been told you simply need to “manage it better”. But when pain lasts for months or years, it often becomes more than just a physical issue. The brain, nervous system, stress, fear, and learned pain patterns can all begin to play a strong role in maintaining symptoms. My work focuses on this mind-body connection, helping you understand what may be causing your pain and supporting your brain and body to move out of protection and into change.
How I Help
I help you understand what may really be going on beneath chronic or persistent pain. This includes modern pain education, the role of the brain and nervous system, neuroplasticity, emotional triggers, and the learned patterns that can keep pain switched on. Together, we work to break the loop of fear, stress, and negative associations, helping your system feel safer and creating the conditions for real change.
Together, we work to:
Understand why pain can continue, even beyond the expected healing window.
Identify the patterns, triggers and associations keeping symptoms active.
Use the brain’s plasticity to break the cycle of chronic/persistent pain.
This may be for you if….
You’ve been living with chronic or persistent pain for months or years.
You feel fed up, frustrated, or worn down by how much pain has taken over your life.
You’ve tried medications, body-based treatments or multiple approaches without lasting change.
You’ve been told the age-old bad advice to ‘manage it’, ‘live with it’, or ‘just relax and think positive thoughts’ - This is simply masking negative beliefs that exist.
Your pain seems to flare with anger, stress, fear, pressure, or emotional overwhelm.
You're ready for a more modern, mind-body approach that uses the power and flexibility of your brain - so you can finally free yourself from chronic pain and take charge of your life.
You’re fully ready to commit and trust that recovery is possible.
What Can Change
When pain is no longer being reinforced in the same way, 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, moving with more confidence, 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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No, not at all.
Your pain is real.
What this approach recognises is that pain is created and processed by the brain and nervous system. When pain becomes chronic or persistent, those systems can become overprotective, continuing to produce pain even when there is no longer a clear need for it.
This doesn’t mean the pain is imagined or “just psychological”. It means the brain has learned to keep the pain response active.
By understanding how this works, we can begin to change it — reducing fear, calming the nervous system, and helping your brain and body respond differently.
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Many people who come to this work have already tried a wide range of approaches — from medication and hands-on therapies to scans, exercises, appointments, and being told to “manage it”.
What makes this different is that the focus is not only on the body or the symptoms themselves, but on the brain, nervous system, fear response, emotional triggers, and learned pain patterns that may be keeping pain going.
Rather than endlessly chasing symptoms, this approach helps you understand what may really be driving them — and works with the mind-body connection in a more focused, modern way.
It is not about pretending pain is not real. It is about helping your system feel safer, less reactive, and better able to move out of the pain loop.
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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.
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You can reach me anytime via my contact page or email. I aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
