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When you are assessing your clients with persistent pain, how good are you at asking clients about how pain is affecting sex and intimacy? If the client doesn’t bring it up, do you? Are we … Read more

Do you experience persistent, or chronic, pain? Or do you have a loved one who does? You might know how hard it is to pace yourself on a ‘good day’, overdoing it, and then ‘paying … Read more

‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ (a quote often attributed to Gandhi) has always struck a chord.  Sometimes, words alone cannot convince others of the value of behaviour change, but we … Read more

What do we (as clinicians) think helps? We have been working as an interdisciplinary team for a long time across a variety of service provisions.  Here’s what we’ve observed is helpful for people with persistent … Read more

What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? ACT is a therapeutic approach developed by Stephen Hayes and colleagues (Hayes, Strosal & Wilson, 1999), and is part of the ‘third wave’ approaches of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy … Read more

What is a pain physio? How is a pain physio different to a regular physio? Don’t all physios help people with pain? Questions often asked by patients, clients, health professionals, case managers and individuals involved … Read more

What is ‘readiness to change’? One of the things we want to assess when meeting a new client for the first time is ‘readiness to change’.  This is based on the transtheoretical model (Prochaska & … Read more

Sometimes people feel daunted or upset by the idea of seeing a psychologist in relation to their pain problem. This is something that we hear a lot, and so we have put together this document … Read more

Do you ever have those days where you wish you could do a job that was a little more detached from emotion and other people’s pain? I know I do, even though I love what … Read more