Chronic Pain Therapists in Santa Fe, NM
While the mind-body can experience pain and conflict, it can also undergo resilience and healing.
Stressful situations can happen suddenly, or build over time. Whether it is a relationship issue, traumatic experience, life transition, or career challenge, I can help you move from surviving to thriving. Using comprehensive methodologies, I offer a highly personalized approach, tailored to each client. I work with individuals to help them build on their strengths and attain the healing, growth and change they are looking for.
While the mind-body can experience pain and conflict, it can also undergo resilience and healing.
Stressful situations can happen suddenly, or build over time. Whether it is a relationship issue, traumatic experience, life transition, or career challenge, I can help you move from surviving to thriving. Using comprehensive methodologies, I offer a highly personalized approach, tailored to each client. I work with individuals to help them build on their strengths and attain the healing, growth and change they are looking for.
Liz Elmquist
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PMH-C
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Santa Fe, NM 87508
I specialize in perinatal/reproductive mental health, navigating infertility, transitioning to parenthood, adjusting to a new medical diagnosis, living with a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness, caregiver support, grief/loss, and end of life care. I am passionate about providing high-quality, holistic, and compassionate mental health care during times of transition.
I specialize in perinatal/reproductive mental health, navigating infertility, transitioning to parenthood, adjusting to a new medical diagnosis, living with a cancer diagnosis or other serious illness, caregiver support, grief/loss, and end of life care. I am passionate about providing high-quality, holistic, and compassionate mental health care during times of transition.
Many of us struggle with physical illness, emotional pain or relationship problems. Sometimes life looks fine on the outside, but we hunger for something more. That feeling of emptiness can lead to depression, anxiety, addiction, physical illness or other problems that seem overwhelming. But the answers are there, because inside your heart is a wellspring of wisdom and love. By uncovering and clearing the causes of distress, our own inner light can shine through. I offer a safe and nurturing space, along with practical skills to uncover the deep inner peace, health and happiness that are buried in your heart.
Many of us struggle with physical illness, emotional pain or relationship problems. Sometimes life looks fine on the outside, but we hunger for something more. That feeling of emptiness can lead to depression, anxiety, addiction, physical illness or other problems that seem overwhelming. But the answers are there, because inside your heart is a wellspring of wisdom and love. By uncovering and clearing the causes of distress, our own inner light can shine through. I offer a safe and nurturing space, along with practical skills to uncover the deep inner peace, health and happiness that are buried in your heart.
EMDR is for trauma but can provide profound relief from a variety of difficulties including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, chronic pain, migraines syndromes and other intractible afflictions.
I am committed to obtaining excellent results and my patients will attest to this. I am an EMDR clinician, consultant and trainer nationally & internationally. I am Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford educated and am a practitioner-grounded in the research and literature. My practice brings the best of EMDR, hypnosis, biofeedback and mind/body medicine and marries it with 37 yrs of deep knowledge of the healing arts. As a former dancer and performer, a staunch scientist and a student pilot, I am conversant in both the world of artistic expression and the vast domain of science.
EMDR is for trauma but can provide profound relief from a variety of difficulties including depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, chronic pain, migraines syndromes and other intractible afflictions.
I am committed to obtaining excellent results and my patients will attest to this. I am an EMDR clinician, consultant and trainer nationally & internationally. I am Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford educated and am a practitioner-grounded in the research and literature. My practice brings the best of EMDR, hypnosis, biofeedback and mind/body medicine and marries it with 37 yrs of deep knowledge of the healing arts. As a former dancer and performer, a staunch scientist and a student pilot, I am conversant in both the world of artistic expression and the vast domain of science.
Nathan Shaylor Alley
Licensed Professional Counselor, LADC, LPCC
Verified Verified
Santa Fe, NM 87508 (Online Only)
While we may not be able to make the scars disappear, my goal is to help you eliminate the pain from those wounds.
Have you struggled with trauma or addiction? Feeling overwhelmed or a lack of excitement about life? I work with people who want help supporting their recovery from a troubled life, or those affected by a loved one's struggles. I offer online therapy for New Mexico with monthly in person visits optional. I'm a Native New Mexican and understand some concerns that might be unique to New Mexicans from all walks of life.
While we may not be able to make the scars disappear, my goal is to help you eliminate the pain from those wounds.
Have you struggled with trauma or addiction? Feeling overwhelmed or a lack of excitement about life? I work with people who want help supporting their recovery from a troubled life, or those affected by a loved one's struggles. I offer online therapy for New Mexico with monthly in person visits optional. I'm a Native New Mexican and understand some concerns that might be unique to New Mexicans from all walks of life.
Heather Dawn Hines
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LCSW
Verified Verified
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Waitlist for new clients
My doctorate is in depth psychology and integrated healing practices which means that I have been trained to help people use the unconscious to access the pain under their symptoms and transform it into soulfulness.
I work well with people who believe there is a hidden meaning or message in their struggles that can eventually serve as a path to a more soulful life. I see myself as a guide to help companion people through the underworld of depression, anxiety, and PTSD as well as a partner in transforming psychological suffering and intergenerational patterns into the medicine which can ultimately allow individuals and families to become more fully themselves. On the community level, I offer grief groups as well as climate support groups. Please see my website for more details.
My doctorate is in depth psychology and integrated healing practices which means that I have been trained to help people use the unconscious to access the pain under their symptoms and transform it into soulfulness.
I work well with people who believe there is a hidden meaning or message in their struggles that can eventually serve as a path to a more soulful life. I see myself as a guide to help companion people through the underworld of depression, anxiety, and PTSD as well as a partner in transforming psychological suffering and intergenerational patterns into the medicine which can ultimately allow individuals and families to become more fully themselves. On the community level, I offer grief groups as well as climate support groups. Please see my website for more details.
I help people struggling with crises, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, difficult life transitions, chronic illness and other issues. I empower and help my clients increase their confidence, facilitating the process of taking back control of their lives. I help couples get unstuck from conflicted interactions. I also work with individuals who are struggling with self identity, finding their place in the world and transitioning into a new path. I have a growth-oriented approach and enjoy working with people who are looking to understand themselves and find meaning in their lives.
I help people struggling with crises, relationship problems, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, difficult life transitions, chronic illness and other issues. I empower and help my clients increase their confidence, facilitating the process of taking back control of their lives. I help couples get unstuck from conflicted interactions. I also work with individuals who are struggling with self identity, finding their place in the world and transitioning into a new path. I have a growth-oriented approach and enjoy working with people who are looking to understand themselves and find meaning in their lives.
Maybe you're facing a life transition, anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or caring for a loved one with dementia or illness. Or maybe you just want to be listened to and discover your deeper truths in this time of your life. I recognize, nurture and support your innate capacity and wisdom to heal.
Maybe you're facing a life transition, anxiety, stress, grief, depression, or caring for a loved one with dementia or illness. Or maybe you just want to be listened to and discover your deeper truths in this time of your life. I recognize, nurture and support your innate capacity and wisdom to heal.
I am a clinical psychologist providing psychological diagnosis, evaluation, and brief therapy in Boerne, Texas. Correct diagnosis and assessment can improve your life! You can understand yourself better, boost your academic performance, stimulate work success, deepen your relationships, and even improve your physical health. Brief therapy gives us time to explore treatment recommendations, dissolve resistance to change, target specific problems, or adopt new skills. I also help with emotional challenges of physical illnesses, like diabetes, chronic pain, or autoimmune disorders.
I am a clinical psychologist providing psychological diagnosis, evaluation, and brief therapy in Boerne, Texas. Correct diagnosis and assessment can improve your life! You can understand yourself better, boost your academic performance, stimulate work success, deepen your relationships, and even improve your physical health. Brief therapy gives us time to explore treatment recommendations, dissolve resistance to change, target specific problems, or adopt new skills. I also help with emotional challenges of physical illnesses, like diabetes, chronic pain, or autoimmune disorders.
Mark Robert Voss
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPCC
Verified Verified
Santa Fe, NM 87505 (Online Only)
I use a new, scientifically validated method, called Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a chronic pain treatment that targets the brain alone.
Chronic pain, stress, anxiety, fear, distraction and depression — these all have a common root — our habitual response to our own feelings. This response feels automatic, but it is learned, and it can be changed. You can do this liberating work, and I can help. And, while I am a generalist and work with a wide variety of challenges, from traumatic memories to existential crises, I have a special place in my heart for chronic pain sufferers.
I use a new, scientifically validated method, called Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a chronic pain treatment that targets the brain alone.
Chronic pain, stress, anxiety, fear, distraction and depression — these all have a common root — our habitual response to our own feelings. This response feels automatic, but it is learned, and it can be changed. You can do this liberating work, and I can help. And, while I am a generalist and work with a wide variety of challenges, from traumatic memories to existential crises, I have a special place in my heart for chronic pain sufferers.
I am a bilingual, licensed psychotherapist with 28 years of experience. My training includes graduating from programs in the USA, Mexico and Argentina. I integrate different modalities to help clients find relief from psychological pain, as well as find meaning and purpose in their lives. I am also a cancer survivor who has successfully dealt with these issues in my life.
I am a bilingual, licensed psychotherapist with 28 years of experience. My training includes graduating from programs in the USA, Mexico and Argentina. I integrate different modalities to help clients find relief from psychological pain, as well as find meaning and purpose in their lives. I am also a cancer survivor who has successfully dealt with these issues in my life.
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Pain is stressful.
Are you smart, successful, and juggling a lot, but your days often include feeling drained, plagued, stuck, or like you can't get over a hump? Do you often feel like you hit a brick wall, or missed your boat? Panic? Anxiety? My deep desire is to create a nourishing and healing experience for you. Time does not heal wounds. Awareness and honoring you and your unique process does heal. For more than twenty years, my passion has been exploring and developing empowerment and healing tools to facilitate and enhance people's well-being. My wisdom includes a wholistic approach to health, and I am eager to begin your journey.
Pain is stressful.
Are you smart, successful, and juggling a lot, but your days often include feeling drained, plagued, stuck, or like you can't get over a hump? Do you often feel like you hit a brick wall, or missed your boat? Panic? Anxiety? My deep desire is to create a nourishing and healing experience for you. Time does not heal wounds. Awareness and honoring you and your unique process does heal. For more than twenty years, my passion has been exploring and developing empowerment and healing tools to facilitate and enhance people's well-being. My wisdom includes a wholistic approach to health, and I am eager to begin your journey.
I have specialized skill in chronic pain and illness as well as BFRBs.
I’m a highly experienced psychotherapist working with clients in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. I love moving with people through the places they want to change and grow. I’m honored to help those seeking clarity, calm, wisdom, freedom, and understanding.
I have specialized skill in chronic pain and illness as well as BFRBs.
I’m a highly experienced psychotherapist working with clients in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. I love moving with people through the places they want to change and grow. I’m honored to help those seeking clarity, calm, wisdom, freedom, and understanding.
I offer one-on-one psychotherapy with adults who wish to suffer less. As Haruki Murakami wrote, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” I am an integrative therapist, drawing from various traditions to provide patients a unique, tailored therapeutic experience, generally working in a humanistic and contemplative framework. I treat a variety of conditions; please inquire about specific needs. Areas of specialty include trauma/PTSD (including chronic/complex trauma), grief/loss, mindfulness/meditation, support for chronic illness, relational issues, and dynamics related to narcissistic/borderline/personality disorders.
I offer one-on-one psychotherapy with adults who wish to suffer less. As Haruki Murakami wrote, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” I am an integrative therapist, drawing from various traditions to provide patients a unique, tailored therapeutic experience, generally working in a humanistic and contemplative framework. I treat a variety of conditions; please inquire about specific needs. Areas of specialty include trauma/PTSD (including chronic/complex trauma), grief/loss, mindfulness/meditation, support for chronic illness, relational issues, and dynamics related to narcissistic/borderline/personality disorders.
Toni Nelson Huff Counseling Services
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Fe, NM 87507 (Online Only)
I work with adults over age 40 and on into the later years of life. My goal is to help you heal and find peace. I specialize in chronic illness, grief and loss, and concerns related to aging.
I work with adults over age 40 and on into the later years of life. My goal is to help you heal and find peace. I specialize in chronic illness, grief and loss, and concerns related to aging.
Jessie M Lane
Counselor, MS, LPCC
Verified Verified
Santa Fe, NM 87505 (Online Only)
Waitlist for new clients
Are you experiencing fear, loneliness, anger, grief, chronic illness, or pain? Maybe you're transitioning or feeling un-rooted, on an edge, lost, anxious, and/or addicted? Our identities and perspectives are informed by how we relate to and make sense of these, and our other human, experiences. Knowledge of that we call 'self' is a continual and creative process, and includes integration of the unconscious - the parts of the psyche yet unknown to us. I help clients find focus and relax preconceived notions of how growth and healing occurs. This allows one to learn from their symptoms in order to ease suffering - to hold paradox.
Are you experiencing fear, loneliness, anger, grief, chronic illness, or pain? Maybe you're transitioning or feeling un-rooted, on an edge, lost, anxious, and/or addicted? Our identities and perspectives are informed by how we relate to and make sense of these, and our other human, experiences. Knowledge of that we call 'self' is a continual and creative process, and includes integration of the unconscious - the parts of the psyche yet unknown to us. I help clients find focus and relax preconceived notions of how growth and healing occurs. This allows one to learn from their symptoms in order to ease suffering - to hold paradox.
Kiersten Ann Figurski
Counselor, MA, LPCC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Santa Fe, NM 87500
Waitlist for new clients
I provide meaningful support to clients confronted with a terminal illness or the loss of a close friend or family member.
I offer deeply compassionate psychotherapy. Life is profoundly challenging at times for every single one of us. Sometimes we need a space, all our own, to explore our experiences and move forward towards a peaceful mind. I will be here with you to support your personal exploration and offer encouragement and guidance when desired. I believe we have what it takes for positive change within us and I am here to remind you of your own capabilities and strengths. I work with chronic pain sufferers using Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT.) Please reach out to me for more info about PRT. We can explore whether PRT is right for you.
I provide meaningful support to clients confronted with a terminal illness or the loss of a close friend or family member.
I offer deeply compassionate psychotherapy. Life is profoundly challenging at times for every single one of us. Sometimes we need a space, all our own, to explore our experiences and move forward towards a peaceful mind. I will be here with you to support your personal exploration and offer encouragement and guidance when desired. I believe we have what it takes for positive change within us and I am here to remind you of your own capabilities and strengths. I work with chronic pain sufferers using Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT.) Please reach out to me for more info about PRT. We can explore whether PRT is right for you.
Life is a beautiful experience however it comes with challenges, stressors, and pain. Therapy is a great tool to be able to assist in navigating all of the ups and downs we face in our daily lives. I am here to help you work towards your best self and assist in all of life’s experiences.
Life is a beautiful experience however it comes with challenges, stressors, and pain. Therapy is a great tool to be able to assist in navigating all of the ups and downs we face in our daily lives. I am here to help you work towards your best self and assist in all of life’s experiences.
I understand that the decision to pursue therapy often comes after experiencing deep pain, which can make reaching out feel daunting.
Adjusting to major life transitions can take a toll on your mental health and overall wellbeing. Whether you are looking for help coping with a change in relationship, career, or family, finding and embracing your identity, enduring the grief of a loved one, or healing from past traumas, we can work together to decrease the suffering and find some enjoyment in life. I have experience working with children, teens, and adults through issues such as depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, and grief. I strive to create a compassionate and comfortable space to get to know you and encourage your personal growth.
I understand that the decision to pursue therapy often comes after experiencing deep pain, which can make reaching out feel daunting.
Adjusting to major life transitions can take a toll on your mental health and overall wellbeing. Whether you are looking for help coping with a change in relationship, career, or family, finding and embracing your identity, enduring the grief of a loved one, or healing from past traumas, we can work together to decrease the suffering and find some enjoyment in life. I have experience working with children, teens, and adults through issues such as depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, and grief. I strive to create a compassionate and comfortable space to get to know you and encourage your personal growth.
Avenidas Nuevas Counseling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MBA, MSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Have received extensive training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and topics related to substance abuse and chronic pain.
Since 2007, I have been dedicated to the social service and mental health field. My career has encompassed a diverse array of settings, including homeless shelters, youth correctional facilities, adult inpatient psychiatric units, and both one-on-one and group therapy for general mental health concerns. I have supported clients facing a variety of challenges, such as past and present trauma, distorted self-perceptions, substance abuse, life transitions, cognitive distortions, and depression/anxiety, all with the goal of helping them find peace and balance in their lives.
Have received extensive training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and topics related to substance abuse and chronic pain.
Since 2007, I have been dedicated to the social service and mental health field. My career has encompassed a diverse array of settings, including homeless shelters, youth correctional facilities, adult inpatient psychiatric units, and both one-on-one and group therapy for general mental health concerns. I have supported clients facing a variety of challenges, such as past and present trauma, distorted self-perceptions, substance abuse, life transitions, cognitive distortions, and depression/anxiety, all with the goal of helping them find peace and balance in their lives.
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How does chronic pain therapy work?
Engaging with a psychotherapist to help treat chronic pain does not mean that one’s pain is all in their head. Therapy for chronic-pain patients has been shown to benefit both the mind and the body, targeting physical symptoms and increasing daily functioning. In other words, for many, addressing their emotional health through therapy affects their physical health. A therapist can help a client challenge unhelpful thoughts about pain and develop new ways to respond to it, such as distraction or calming breathing techniques. Studies have found that therapy can be as effective as surgery for certain cases of chronic pain and many doctors recommend trying psychotherapy in advance of considering invasive surgery.
What are the most effective treatment options for chronic pain?
Stress, anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, ruminating, lack of activity, and social withdrawal all make chronic pain worse. Addressing these issues, research shows, can help people gain control over their pain symptoms. Therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, and mindfulness-based stress reduction, along with greater pain-management education, have been found to help people reduce fear and disability.
Are there new treatments for chronic pain?
Many cases of chronic pain, particularly those involving back pain, remain medically unexplained. But there is evidence that changes in the brain or nervous system are caused by previous physical ailments such as tissue damage; in such cases, the brain may continue to send out pain signals despite the physical cause having healed. To aid patients under these circumstances, a recently developed treatment known as pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) is designed to help the brain “unlearn” this response. A PRT practitioner helps individuals to reduce the “threat value” of their ongoing pain signals until they can reappraise them as less threatening and fear-inducing. They also help an individual to develop new emotional regulation skills.
How long does therapy for chronic pain take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from chronic pain, especially as there may be a range of physical and psychological causes for any individual’s discomfort, but most patients should expect to see a therapist for a number of weeks or months, typically spanning at least 12 sessions. Studies of pain reprocessing therapy found that many individuals’ experience of pain lessened in eight sessions over four weeks.