Managing Persistent Pain

When pain changes how movement feels‍

Living with persistent pain can change how safe movement feels, how your body responds to activity, and how much energy you have from day to day. For some people, pain relates to an injury from the past. For others, it’s linked with conditions commonly associated with ongoing pain, such as chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, hypermobility, migraine, or long-term musculoskeletal conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Pain is also shaped by stress, fatigue, past experiences, co-occurring conditions, and how your nervous system has learned to protect you over time. This doesn’t mean the pain isn’t real. It means it’s complex.

‍How I work

My role is to help you make sense of your pain experience, rebuild trust in movement at a pace that feels manageable, and find ways of moving that support your life rather than shrinking it.

I support people living with persistent pain to move in ways that feel safer, more predictable, and more supportive over time. We look at physical factors alongside things like nervous system sensitivity, stress, fear, fatigue, and past experiences with pain and healthcare.

We work together to find a starting point that feels right for you. I don’t dictate what that should look like. Sometimes that means beginning with non-movement work to better understand your pain. Other times it means gently reintroducing movement in ways that support the parts of life pain may be limiting.

Lived experience and clinical care

I live with chronic low back pain and have for over eight years. I know how pain can fluctuate, how it can affect trust in your body, and how frustrating it can be when medical advice doesn’t reflect how you feel day to day.

My work in this space is shaped by clinical training, my own lived experience, and the lived experiences of the people I’ve worked with. I take your pain seriously, even when scans or tests don’t provide clear answers.

A supportive, realistic approach

Sessions adapt to how you’re feeling on the day. That might mean modifying movements, changing positions, building tolerance slowly, or focusing on non-movement work, depending on what you need.

The aim isn’t to push through pain or chase progress in a straight line. It’s to give you options. Over time, the goal is to support your functional goals and help you rebuild a relationship with movement that feels realistic, flexible, and sustainable.