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Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Pain: A CBT Approach

Chronic pain doesn’t just affect your body—it impacts your thoughts, emotions, and daily choices in a way that can reinforce suffering. This post explores the pain cycle through a CBT lens and gives you two practical tools to start shifting your relationship with pain.

Effective Mind-Body Techniques for Chronic Pain Relief: Somatic Practices, Mindfulness, and Polyvagal Theory

Pain can shape how you move through the world, narrowing your sense of what’s possible. Integrating somatic practices, mindfulness, and polyvagal-informed techniques offers a path toward greater ease, resilience, and connection with your body.

Why I Use Questionnaires in Therapy (and How They Help You)

Forms in therapy can feel clinical, cold, or like a barrier between you and your provider. But when used thoughtfully, they can become powerful tools for healing. Learn how these measures help us stay grounded in what matters most: your lived experience and your goals.

Is Chronic Pain Therapy Right for You? Signs It’s Time to Get Support

Chronic pain therapy isn’t just for people with a formal diagnosis. And it’s not just for folks whose pain is “severe enough.” It’s for anyone who’s feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or curious about what might be possible with the right kind of support.

Liberation Over Suffering: Why Healing Should Be Part of a Spiritual Path

Learn why pain is not a punishment, how healing is possible, and how seeking relief can align with your beliefs, whether you’re religious, spiritual, or secular.

Managing Chronic Pain: More Than Just a Physical Experience

Living with pain, you know it’s so much more than the physical sensations. Learn more about how to cope with “all the rest” and how a pain psychologist can help.

How to Get the Most out of Your Telehealth Therapy Appointment

These tips will help you get the most out of your telehealth therapy appointments.

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Alcove Mental Health is an online therapy practice specializing in chronic pain, health-related stress, Emotional Burnout, and support for adults with complex medical conditions.