Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) & Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET)
Neuroscience-Informed Treatment Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Chronic Pain
- Speaker:
- Gabrielle Jacobs, LCSW, CADC I
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 04 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jul 17, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150882
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Psychotherapy for chronic pain has traditionally focused on helping clients learn to accept and live with their condition, assuming that it cannot and will not improve.
But what if, for certain types of pain, therapists could do more than that?
What if we could help clients actually recover from chronic pain?
In this session, chronic pain expert Gabrielle Jacobs will show you how to determine whether your clients might benefit from new, neuroscience-based treatments – Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) - that could actually reduce and eliminate chronic pain. You’ll learn:
- Strategies to gently guide clients to relate differently to their pain without offending them or damaging rapport
- How to determine the type of pain your client is experiencing – and pivot strategies accordingly
- Techniques for mindful somatic tracking and expressing avoided emotions
Credit
Speaker
Gabrielle Jacobs, LCSW, CADC I Related seminars and products
Gabrielle Jacobs, LCSW, CADC I is a psychotherapist in Portland, OR and the associate director of the Mind Body Center, a group practice focused on providing evidence-based treatments including Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy to individuals living with chronic pain conditions and medically unexplained symptoms. In addition to seeing clients through the Mind Body Therapy Center, Gabrielle is currently the lead research clinician on an NIH trial through the University of Colorado, in partnership with the Hospital for Special Surgery, evaluating pain reprocessing therapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Gabrielle Jacobs has employment relationships with Mind Body Therapy Center and the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz School of Medicine. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Gabrielle Jacobs has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Differentiate neuroplastic vs. structural pain based on established criteria and within scope of practice.
- Develop psychoeducation to clients about neuroplastic pain.
- Identify the treatment strategies of Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy.
Outline
Chronic Neuroplastic Pain vs. Structural, Acute Pain
- Purpose of pain – real danger, or inaccurate perception of threat
- The importance of thorough medical examinations
- Neuroscience findings related to chronic vs. acute pain
- Live with it, or reduce/eliminate it
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) & Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET)
- How to provide psychoeducation to turn down threat and turn up safety
- Assess for chronic pain with SHIFT criteria
- Evidence sheets to reattribute the source of pain to the brain rather than the body
- Increase awareness of conditions and patterns impacting pain
- Relationship between stress, “difficult” emotions, and pain
- Mindful somatic tracking to increase curiosity toward painful sensations
- Reduce the drive to make pain “go away”
- Techniques to experience, express, and release suppressed or avoided emotions
- Graded exposure to overcome avoidance and reduce use of pain-related accommodations
- Getting emotions up and out of the body exercise
- Somatic tracking exercise
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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