Pain Reprocessing coaching

The goal of healing is not to fix yourself, the goal of healing is to stop treating yourself like a problem.

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Helping you move beyond chronic pain and back into your life.

I offer a 6-week chronic pain coaching program using a Pain Reprocessing Therapy approach to help you retrain your brain and nervous system, reduce fear around symptoms, and begin returning to your life with more ease and confidence.

This work is also deeply personal to me. After years of living with chronic migraines and back pain that didn’t fully make sense through a traditional medical lens, I began to understand the role of the brain and nervous system in pain—and things started to shift. That experience now informs the way I support others, with a focus on compassion, curiosity, and meaningful change.

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coaching provides a way out of chronic pain using:

01. Pain Science

Learning about the brain origins of chronic symptoms and the pain fear cycle, specifially about how neuroplastic symptoms are reversible.

02. Mindfulness

Attending to our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment with presence, curiosity and compassion rather than being in the past or future.

03. CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identify and changing negative or unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that reinforce danger and chronic symptoms.

04. Graded Exposure

Identifying pain-eliciting activities and gradually exposing oneself to them while regulating the nervous system to teach the brain and body they are innately safe and not a threat.

05. Somatic Tracking

A central technique in PRT is called “somatic tracking”. The goal of somatic tracking is to help attend to pain sensations through a lens of safety.

06. Joy & Play

Lastly, but maybe most importantly, we are not just eliminating symptoms, but introducing more joy and pleasure to build a life of meaning and authenticity.

  • "Lena is an insightful, thoughtful, and resourceful mental health professional. She is adept at navigating various topics or concerns, and offers perspectives and/or guidance without judgement. I feel very much seen and understood in my sessions. I'm so grateful to have found a therapist I can trust; it’s been life changing! I highly recommend Lena. She will be genuinely committed to your well-being and healing."

    R.L. - Fall River, MA

  • "Lena creates a safe, client-centered space that makes this challenging but transformative work possible -- always providing opportunities to pause, tap into my own agency, and process together using her diverse therapeutic toolkit. After just a few sessions of EMDR with Lena, I am starting to truly feel my feelings in their fullness and to loosen the hold of stuck traumas in my heart, mind, and body."

    K.A. - Somervile, MA

  • "I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am that you came in to my life, Lena! You have helped me so much, to have grace for myself, to take care of myself, create the space for curiosity and permission to let go of so many definitions and rules I once had for myself and for my life. I’m just so grateful, thank you ❤!!!!"

    L.B. - Wellesley, MA

  • "I highly recommend working with Lena. She validates my feelings while gently challenging my fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs. She has unwavering faith in my potential and introduces new tools and methods when needed, empowering me to lead my own healing journey. I trust Lena because she has recovered from chronic pain herself and truly understands what I’m going through. I also appreciate the humor, joy, and compassion she brings to our sessions."

    K.P. - Cambridge

  • "Hello, Elena, I want to deeply thank you for your marvelous, miraculous work with my nephew. You have given him back the mobility in his hands and also helped him grow as a person well beyond his physical healing. I watched him gradually lose huge parts of his life and then saw him gradually gain everything back and more, thanks to you. I can't say how grateful I am to you. "

    H.C. - Colchester, CT

  • A structured, short-term approach that helps retrain your brain and nervous system using Pain Reprocessing Therapy, so the patterns keeping pain activated can begin to shift.

  • It’s often helpful for chronic pain or symptoms that persist beyond normal healing time, especially when there is a mind-body component. We can discuss your specific situation during a consultation.

  • We meet weekly for 6 weeks, focusing on practical tools to shift your relationship to pain and build a greater sense of safety. You’ll also have simple practices between sessions.

  • Coaching is structured, short-term, and focused on retraining the brain and nervous system. Therapy is more open-ended and explores broader emotional or relational patterns.

  • The investment is $1,500 for the 6-week program. Payment plans are available.

  • Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if this approach is a good fit.

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Elena Crisp. Trauma therapist in Massachusetts. EMDR therapy massachusetts. Pain Reprocessing Therapist in massachusetts.

“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”

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