This video is an excerpt from a Living Proof event 'Stories of Hope and Science'. At these events, we share conversations with experts and trailblazers of mind-body medicine.

This session features Vanessa Blackstone, MSW, ACSW, who is the Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center and the co-author of the Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook. She is a therapist who works with patients with chronic pain – and has her own lived experience of recovery from debilitating persistent symptoms.

In the video, Vanessa shares her personal story through chronic pain and healing– along with a presentation on Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).

PRT is a set a psychological approaches used to reduce and resolve neuroplastic pain and symptoms.  

Discover more from Vanessa:
📸 Instagram - @that.therapist
🌐 Pain Psychology Center (US) website - https://painpsychologycenter.com
🌐 Pain Psychology Centre (UK) website - https://painpsychologycenter.co.uk/
🎤 Vanessa will also be speaking at a special event for our friends at Stichting Emovere in June 2026 - details coming soon via https://stichtingemovere.nl & Instagram: stichting.emovere

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🌐 Our website - https://www.livingproof.org.uk
📚 Resources to support recovery from neuroplastic symptoms -https://www.livingproof.org.uk/resources
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