PRT Pain reprocessing
Gorog Health offers Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). PRT focuses on altering the brain's response to pain signals and addressing the underlying psychological factors contributing to pain. Discover how PRT at Gorog Health can help you retrain your brain, alleviate pain, and improve your overall well-being.
What is this type of therapy?
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a system of psychological techniques that retrains the brain to accurately interpret and respond to signals from the body, breaking and aiming to eliminate the cycle of chronic pain. Psychological treatment focused on changing beliefs about the causes and threat value of primary chronic back pain may provide substantial and durable pain relief.
It builds on and extends existing psychological treatment models such as Cognitive-behavioral, Acceptance-based, and Mindfulness-based interventions typically aim to improve the functioning by decreasing pain catastrophizing, enhancing pain coping or acceptance, and promoting engagement in valued life activities. Exposure-based treatments share with PRT an emphasis that painful activities are not injurious, but do not emphasize reappraising pain sensations and reattributing the causes of pain.
Leading psychological interventions for pain typically present the causes of pain as multifaceted and aim primarily to improve functioning and secondarily to reduce pain. PRT emphasizes that the brain actively constructs primary chronic pain in the absence of tissue damage and that reappraising the causes and threat value of pain can reduce or eliminate it.
Recent neuroscience breakthroughs show that most chronic pain results from the brain misinterpreting safe messages from the body as if they were dangerous.
What are the steps?
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) has five main components:
- education about the brain origins and reversibility of pain,
- gathering and reinforcing personalized evidence for the brain origins and reversibility of pain,
- attending to and appraising pain sensations through a lens of safety,
- addressing other emotional threats, and
- gravitating to positive feelings and sensations.
We provide here a brief overview of PRT, and a PRT manual is forthcoming (Gordon & Ziv, forthcoming).
How does it work?
Research has found that the brain has the power to generate pain even in the absence of physical damage. PRT treats Nociplastic, chronic pain as a false alarm, thereby allowing for enhanced interoceptive processes to guide the patients’ experience attending to and learning from their pain. Inadvertently, complex beliefs about their pain and other psychosocial factors maintaining their pain will begin to shift their experience of having pain, ultimately reducing if not eliminating their pain.
How does it help?
PRT targets primary (Nociplastic) pain by shifting patients’
beliefs about the causes and threat value of pain. It presents pain
as a reversible, brain-generated phenomenon not indicative of
peripheral pathology, but instead consistent with active inference and constructionist accounts of interoception and pain. Please let me know if you want me to include more explanations about these models or just add citations or links?
Who Does This Type of Therapy Make Sense For?
People with primary, nonspecific, Nociplastic, or centralized pain. Medical evaluations are necessary before exploring Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
What Makes Us Qualified for This Type of Treatment?
As clinical health psychologists, we are experts in understanding psychophysiological disorders. Additionally, I am a trained and certified a
PRT Clinician. (should we put a link here to their website where my name appears?)
What Can Patients Expect?
Patients can expect to learn about the complex neurophysiological processes that can lead to and maintain chronic pain. Moreso, patients will learn how the psychological processes that contributed to their experience having pain. After establishing care with Dr. Gorog’s team, patients will receive resources and assessment tools to help them better understand their relationship to their pain, so they can begin taking significant steps to reducing, if not eliminating their pain.
What our Client's Say
Adam and Cam Wells2024-05-30We recently had the pleasure of having sessions for our child with Dr. Gorog for help with anxiety and behavioral development, and I couldn't be more pleased with the results. Dr. Gorog is truly exceptional in her approach, skillfully addressing both the psychological and somatic aspects of anxiety. Her comprehensive method ensures that every facet of one's well-being is considered, not just the mental or emotional symptoms. From the very first session, Dr. Gorog made my kiddo feel understood and at ease. She has a remarkable ability to identify the physical and somatic manifestations of anxiety and provides practical strategies to alleviate these symptoms. Her holistic approach has helped ALL of us gain a deeper understanding of how the body and mind are interconnected, which has been incredibly empowering. Dr. Gorog's expertise in treating anxiety is evident in the personalized care she offers. She tailors her sessions to the patient's unique needs, and ensures that our child always feel supported and heard. With her guidance, our child has learned effective techniques to manage anxiety, and we as the parents have learned a great deal more about how to support their journey. I highly recommend Dr. Gorog to anyone struggling with anxiety, especially if you're looking for a provider who addresses both the mental and somatic dimensions of this condition. Her compassionate care and comprehensive treatment approach have made a significant difference in our family and our kiddo.
Linden Brooks2024-03-20Dr.Gorog is the best therapist I've ever seen. After struggling with my mental health for years and trying multiple therapist and approaches I was losing hope....until I walked into Dr.Gorogs office. She creates an environment of safety allowing you to be truly vulnerable, for me I was able to go deeper then ever before. This environment and trust allows her to guide patients in restructuring the meaning assigned to external factors and exploring how past events and traumas have wired our brains, which for me was a large cause of my mental distress. She helped me reframe my anxiety and view it in a positive light, an emotion/stimulus I no longer fight but embrace and explore with curiosity. Through our time, I've done some exploration of my mental health outside of traditional practices, she was supportive, encouraging, and provided valuable advice on how to approach a new therapy modality, which was solely effective because of the work we had previously done. Furthermore, she was important in the integration of the experience and holding me accountable to the discoveries. I would recommend Dr.Gorog to any and everyone whose looking to develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their emotions, overcome and cope with deep trauma, navigate a large life event, or simply improve your life to lessen your symptoms and be more fulfilled.
Gabe Casher2023-08-10As a fellow therapist, I highly recommend Dr. Gorog for psychotherapy services. She has a warm and down-to-earth presence, and uses an evidence-based, no nonsense approach with her clients. She is direct and gentle at the same time, which leads to great outcomes for clients. With Dr. Gorog, you are in good hands!
Efrain Lemus2022-04-12Best psychotherapy in Denver, I was having hard problems with anxiety and she gave me the tools to fight the anxiety and keep it controlled. Dr. Lauren I’ll definitely come back to you in the future when I feel the anxiety is getting out of control again.
Terrel Davis2021-07-07Dr. Gorog is a well-qualified and compassionate therapist, who provides a safe environment for self-growth and healing. Without hesitation, I recommend her highly to friends and family.
Amber “Amber B Shells”2020-12-19My experience with Dr. Gorog was extremely insightful. I have learned skills and knowledge that cause me to feel calmer, more secure in myself and gave me a deeper understanding to myself on a deeper level. I tend to be a sensitive person due to trauma and with my session with Dr. Gorog I gained a higher level of consciousness and was able to see how things effect my nervous system and heart rate. My session gave me the understanding of how things that appear as normal daily occurrence like my phone ringing effected my physiological make up and took me out of the present moment. Amber B. Shells
Marc Allan (Marc_Allen)2020-02-15I have made great progress with my anxiety and depression with Dr. Gorog’s help. Dr. Gorog is passionate about helping others and is one of the most compassionate people I’ve met. She has helped me look at life and myself in thoughtful and positive ways. I highly recommend Dr. Gorog.
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In The News
Denver based Clinical Health Psychologist, Dr. Lauren Gorog, appears on the Kathie J Show from KCDO Local3 & Denver7 to speak about sleepwalking, night terrors, night terrors vs nightmares, and child sleepwalking vs adult sleepwalking.
Watch this interview of Dr. Gorog on the Kathie J show on Local3 Denver’s Hometown Station where they discuss all things insomnia, CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), and what insomnia treatment and help with sleep looks like in my practice.
Watch this interview of Dr. Gorog on the Kathie J show on Local3 Denver’s Hometown Station where they discuss all things insomnia, CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia), and what insomnia treatment and help with sleep looks like in my practice. Click here to go to the article.
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