Pain Relief in Simple Steps
SIRPA offers a cutting-edge approach to chronic pain and persistent symptoms, helping people reclaim their lives when conventional medicine hasn’t provided answers. We support conditions such as chronic back and neck pain, sciatica, migraines, fatigue, and more.
Where science meets recovery from chronic symptoms
At SIRPA, we integrate pain reprocessing and emotional awareness & expression approaches with other evidence-based therapies to address the biological, psychological, emotional and behavioural factors that cause symptoms to persist
SIRPA (Stress Illness Recovery Practitioners’ Association)
Where compassionate care meets clinical excellence
Chronic Pain: A New Perspective TED Talk
Are You Fed Up With Your Pain?
Once we have ruled out physically damaging conditions such as cancer and autoimmune diseases, most cases of persistent or recurring/chronic pain are caused by the brain rather than something wrong with the part of the body that hurts. We now understand that the brain can learn to do this as a way of protecting us from unresolved emotional turmoil, past or present. This is sometimes referred to as a ‘maladaptive stress response’.
The neural pathways that connect the brain with the site of pain can become learned and persistently active, especially when conventional treatments address only the pain symptoms and not the underlying causes.
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Spotlight Practitioner
Jennifer Toomey
Hi I’m Jennie and I work as a physiotherapist in the NHS. I have recovered from 10 years of pain and other symptoms using a combination of mind-body approaches which I integrate into my work with others.
The experience of being in pain can be scary and isolating even when we know it is a protective output of our brain and nervous system. I serve as a present and compassionate facilitator to help guide you through your own unique journey towards internal safety, nervous system regulation and freedom from pain.
I am especially interested in the science behind the mind-body connection. Research into both neurophysiology and psychoneuroimmunology tells is that pain in most cases is not our brain telling us there is something wrong with our body, but the brain’s response to numerous social and psychological threat driven chemical cascades. When treatment reflects the root of the issue, transformation is always possible.
In addition, I have completed practitioner trainings delivered by and researched by Howard Schubiner (Freedom from Chronic Pain) and Alan Gordon (Pain reprocessing therapy). I am trained in Emotional Freedom Technique, matrix reimprinting, acceptance and commitment therapy and life coaching.
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