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Lunch & Learn: The Two Pains: Destigmatizing & Rethinking Chronic Pain to Improve Client Outcomes
Presented by: Hannah Smith, MA, LMHC, CGP
When: Monday, January 25th, 2027 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours (NBCC and NASW-WA Approved): 1.5 Law & Ethics, Health Equity, or Cultural Competence CEs | $25.00
The Two Pains: Destigmatizing & Rethinking Chronic Pain to Improve Client Outcomes
Continuing Education Workshop Description:
More than 60 million Americans live with chronic pain.
As a clinician, if you have not worked with clients who have chronic pain, you will. This can be complicated. Pain-related illnesses are often invisible to outside observers and can be dynamic, changing often. This causes relational and employment issues. Many people who have chronic pain issues have been chasing answers for years, even decades. This often results in trust, self-esteem, and other challenging relational and identity impacts.
Thankfully, advances in brain imaging have opened the door wide toward understanding pain in new ways! In fact, we now have an entirely new approach to pain known as Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), which can make huge differences in client engagement and outcomes.
In this short continuing education workshop, you will be introduced to PRT, learn the two types of pain, understand more about specific societal stigmas and identity issues you’ll need to address, and learn a few quick methods to lay the groundwork to prepare clients to reduce and let go of pain they do not need.
Much of the chronic pain people suffer with these days can be relieved – come learn ways to set them up for success on their journey to building an abundant life not dominated by pain.
Continuing Education Workshop Objectives:
- List the four elements of Pain Reprocessing Therapy
- Explain the two types of pain, “Pain Math,” and how the two pains differ
- Evaluate the limitations of the medical model and societal medicalization when addressing chronic pain
- Teach self-monitoring skills learned in the session to help the client raise state-of-being awareness to lay the groundwork for addressing pain and energy issues