Chronic Pain Recovery Through Mind-Body Coaching & Clinical Hypnotherapy
Tired of Managing Chronic Pain, It’s Time to Recover.
Welcome,
I’m Geraldine
Are you dealing with ongoing pain and discomfort, like persistent back pain or an old injury, where physical pain signals refuse to stop firing months or years after the tissue has fully healed?
Maybe you have been told you just have to "learn to live with" fibromyalgia pain, or another chronic pain condition.
You’ve probably tried medications, seen specialists, and invested in body-based therapies, yet pain remains, your energy is drained, and you feel stuck.
I am here to tell you recovery is possible.
Your pain is 100% real. It is always real—you are absolutely not making it up. But its source might actually be a hyper-vigilant nervous system, rather than damaged physical tissues. And because your nervous system learned how to generate this pain loop, it can learn how to unlearn it, too.
As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Mind-Body Pain Specialist, I help you stop fighting your symptoms and start addressing the root cause. Through tailored online and in-person sessions, we work together to turn down the brain’s volume dial on pain, reduce anxiety, and gently guide your body back to its innate state of health.
The Science of The Brain-Body Connection
For many people, understanding why pain persists is the first step towards recovery.
When you experience prolonged ongoing pain, your brain’s overactive neural pathways keep sending messages and can lock your nervous system into a chronic state of fight-or-flight to protect you.
This is the reality of neuroplastic pain: Your pain is 100% real, but the source is a learned, sensitised neural loop—not ongoing tissue damage.
Breaking the Chronic Pain Cycle
Our work together is deeply personal. We explore how emotions, deep-seated beliefs, and daily challenges might be keeping your system on high alert.
Through education, and practical mind-body interventions, we retrain your brain and nervous system back to a state of calm
Conditions & Symptoms I Can Help You With
Back pain, neck pain, Joint & spinal pain.
Fibromyalgia
Old injury pain
Repetitive strain injury
IBS
Postoperative persistent pain
Complex regional pain syndrome
Chronic widespread pain
My work is not a replacement for medical care. You must seek appropriate medical advice to rule out any condition requiring urgent or ongoing medical treatment before starting this work.
For many people with chronic/persistent pain, online sessions are preferable. So you can feel at ease in an environment you're comfortable with.
Ready to find out if this approach is right for your symptoms?
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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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.
