Pain Control & Management | Hungerford & Online

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Chronic pain is rarely just physical. The way the brain processes pain signals, assigns meaning to them, and anticipates future pain is as much a part of the experience as the sensation itself. That is not a dismissal of what you are feeling. It is the reason this approach works.

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What the research tells us​

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Two decades of clinical evidence have established that hypnosis can measurably reduce daily pain intensity, improve sleep quality, lift mood, and increase activity levels in people living with chronic pain. These are not placebo effects, they reflect real changes in how the nervous system processes and responds to pain signals.

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CBT adds a further layer: identifying and shifting the thought patterns, behaviours, and anticipatory responses that amplify pain and narrow what feels liveable.

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Combined, they address pain at every level it operates, sensory, cognitive, emotional, and behavioural.

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How the work is structured​

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Sessions use clinical hypnotic induction to shift how the brain attends to and interprets pain. Alongside this, CBT techniques address the thinking patterns that keep pain at the centre of daily life, catastrophising, hyper-vigilance, avoidance and replace them with responses that genuinely reduce suffering.

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Every element is tailored to your specific experience of pain, not a generic protocol.