Chronic Illness and Pain Management San Jose, Ca

Chronic Illness & Pain Management San Jose, CA

Chronic Pain: Going Beyond the Body 

You've struggled for years with chronic illness and pain. Your body hurts everywhere, feeling like you are trudging through waist deep mud. The aches and pains are unaccounted for with any medical tests. You are feeling desperate to find relief.

You Are Made to Feel Crazy

Your doctors have suggested that so much of what you are feeling is due to your stress and past trauma. If they could feel what you feel they wouldn't say it was in your head. You find yourself vacillating between giving up and researching every possibility. Both are unsustainable and leave you exhausted. All you know is that it feels like your life is falling apart.

You Have Had a Hard Life

The doctors aren't wrong that you've had a hard life and experienced some significant traumas and terrible experiences. You've done your best to move on and heal- and it feels maddening that something so physical could be related to something that happened years or decades ago. 

Nobody Really Understands

What you feel and go through is something no one else understands. The pain is invisible to those who love and know you so you don't talk about it and instead try to just fake it til you make it. You shove all of the pain down, it feels easier than being vulnerable but it leaves you lonely.  

Who Can You Really Trust with Your Pain?

Your relationships struggle as you try to connect and be enough for everyone around you. But you don't ever allow yourself to truly get close to anyone.  You go through all the motions, but no one knows that you feel dead inside.  You know how to look good and act right and seem ok, but in the end, it's a dead end with you stuck in this body filled with pain with your insides ready to explode.  But you can’t explode because then people will see what a hot mess you are.

Brainspotting for Chronic Pain or Illness

Hi, my name is Janie Sacks and I am therapist with specialty in working with unexplained or unrelenting chronic illness and pain after a history of trauma. Brainspotting is a brain-based therapy that can give you freedom from the pain of the past and other emotions that can lead you to live life with less pain and more freedom.

My clients often say that they feel less pain, more joy in their life, and freedom in their relationships after working with me.  They feel more brave and more resilient and feel like they relate to their bodies in a healthier way. 

If you are ready to have less pain in your life, both physically and emotionally, contact me here for a free 15-minute consultation for trauma counseling in San Jose to discover how something more than just talking will help you get your life back. 

My other specialties include anxiety and chronic illness and pain after a history of trauma.