2024 Conference Speakers
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Yoni Ashar, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Yoni K. Ashar, PhD is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He completed his doctorate in clinical psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder and an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ashar directs the Pain and Emotion Research Laboratory, which uses functional MRI brain imaging, natural language processing, and other clinical and computational tools to understand how mind and brain processes influence health, especially chronic pain. A main research focus is investigating a new class of psychological and neuroscience-based treatments aiming for recovery from chronic pain, especially Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
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Justin Barker, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Justin Barker is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Los Angeles, California. He is the co-author of The MindBody Workbook, Volume Two and the co-presenter of The MindBody Healing Journey online video course, both with Dr. David Schechter. He also co-leads a TMS/PPD Healing Group with Dr. Schechter in which people with TMS/PPD discuss how to heal from various MindBody symptoms. Dr. Barker experienced four years of chronic back pain and was subsequently healed utilizing a TMS/PPD approach. His psychotherapy practice focuses on helping people heal from TMS through addressing underlying fear, anxiety, sadness, guilt, anger, and other strong emotions. Additionally, Dr. Barker utilizes behavioral strategies to help people resume living the life they want. Because PPD clients are usually self-critical, Dr. Barker approaches therapy with kindness, compassion, and warmth.For more information, see www.drjustinbarker.com
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Timothy T. Brown, PhD, MA
Associate Research Professor
Timothy T. Brown is an Associate Research Professor of Health Economics, and the Associate Director for Research at the Berkeley Center for Health Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. His Research Interests include: Public health systems and services, chronic pain, health insurance design, social capital and health, mental health services, and dental services.
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Dave Clarke, MD
PPDA President, Gastroenterologist
David D. Clarke, MD is President of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association (EndChronicPain.org), Assistant Director at the Center for Ethics and Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He is board-certified in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine and has treated over 7000 patients whose symptoms were not explained by organ disease or injury but rather by stress or trauma. His book for patients, They Can’t Find Anything Wrong!,was praised by a president of the American Psychosomatic Society as “truly remarkable.” He has also edited two textbooks on trauma informed psychophysiologic care.
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Brad Fanestil, MD
Board Certified, Internal Medicine
Dr. Brad Fanestil is a board-certified Internal Medicine doctor with 30 years of primary care and hospital experience. Throughout his career he saw patients come into his exam room and into his hospital with problems that didn't always respond to medications and procedures. In 2018 he started reading about the new neuroscience and discovered that anxiety, chronic pain and many other hard-to-treat medical conditions are nothing more than learned behaviors in the nervous system - habit loops in the neural circuitry of the brain. Most of his patients have seen dozens of doctors and other healthcare practitioners without relief. Now, using the tools of Mind Body Medicine, Dr. Fanestil offers online and in-person classes to teach people how to rewire the neural circuitry of anxiety and chronic pain. Find him at www.bouldermindbodymedicine.com
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Arlene Feinblatt, Ph.D.
New York State Psychologist
Dr. Feinblatt was the first Psychologist to work with Dr. John Sarno and developed and implemented the psychological theories and program that began at the Rusk Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center. She was a faculty member of the New York University Medical Center as well as The New York Center for Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. Dr. Feinblatt has worked with mind/body patients at Rusk and in private practice for over 52 years. She can be contacted at afphd@arlenefeinblatt.com.
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Brian S. Foley, MD, MBA Physician
Community Spine Center
Dr. Foley grew up in upstate NY. He received his Bachelors in Chemistry from Binghamton University prior to Medical School at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. He specialized in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Ohio State University. He practices as a non-operative spine specialist in Indianapolis, IN.
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Nathaniel Frank, PhD
Historian, Author, & Researcher
Dr. Nathaniel Frank is an internationally respected historian, author, researcher, and science writer completing a book on mind-body pain for Mayo Clinic Press. He has spent over two decades working in advocacy and communications on public health and LGBTQ rights, and is currently director of the “What We Know Project,” a research initiative at Cornell that aggregates research for the general public. Dr. Frank has written two other books, Unfriendly Fire (2009) and Awakening (2017), and has published widely in such venues as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Slate, and elsewhere. He has appeared on “The Daily Show,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Good Morning America,” NPR’s “Fresh Air,” and numerous other media programs. Hailing from Philadelphia, Dr. Frank attended Northwestern University and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Ideas at Brown University. He lives with his husband and their dog in Brooklyn. Visit his website at www.nathanielfrank.com.
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Pavel Goldstein, PhD
Director of Integrative Pain Laboratory, School of Public Health, University of Haifa
I lead the Integrative Pain Laboratory (iPainLab), where our mission is to understand the mechanisms of neuroplastic chronic pain and develop innovative therapeutic and diagnostic tools. Recognizing that chronic pain is a multifaceted phenomenon involving various systems and their interactions, we focus on pain-specific mechanisms using neurophysiological, physiological, and biochemical measures. Our team has also created effective web-based and phone-based platforms, synced with wearables, to track chronic pain and associated mental health conditions. In collaboration with methodologist Julia Zatulovsky, I developed the Personalized Danger Signal Reprocessing (PDSR) therapeutic approach to assist people in healing chronic pain in a scalable way. Additionally, I oversee the recovery journeys of chronic pain patients, capturing their stories and experiences to share with millions suffering and healthcare providers that healing is possible.
Website: https://pain.haifa.ac.il/
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Rebecca Kennedy, MD
Family Medicine
Rebecca Kennedy MD has been a family medicine physician for over 20 years with a lifelong interest in the mind-body connection and the body’s ability to heal itself. She worked at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon for 15 years and developed an intense curiosity to find better ways to help patients the current medical model fails. After years of searching, she finally found the PPD model and undertook extensive training. She worked with hundreds of patients in the integrative clinic at Kaiser Permanente using the PPD approach over several years. She was the lead of the long COVID specialty group for the entire Northwest Kaiser Permanente region where she assessed hundreds of patients with long COVID, restoring many of them to good health. Witnessing the transformative impact of this model, Dr. Kennedy left Kaiser in 2023 to establish her own clinic and focus exclusively on treating chronic PPD symptoms, called Resilience Health Care in Portland, Oregon. She provides virtual consultations for patients worldwide and is committed to spreading the word about PPD.
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Andrea Leonard- Segal, MD FACR
Clinical Associate Professor GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Dr. Andrea Leonard-Segal is a board-certified rheumatologist and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Segal sees patients at the GW Center for Integrative Medicine in Washington DC.
She graduated from the University of Michigan and with distinction from the George Washington University School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society, which is the medical school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at the George Washington University Hospital and her Fellowship in Rheumatic Diseases at the Georgetown University Medical Center. She practiced general rheumatology and taught Georgetown rheumatology fellows for many years until she became interested in mind-body medicine in 1990. At that point, she decided to dedicate her clinical practice to treating patients with Psycho-physiologic Disorders and moved the practice to the George Washington University Medical Center which was opening its Center for Integrative Medicine. There she teaches residents and medical students and early on served on a GW Medical Center research committee assessing integrative medicine.
She has been treating patients with physical conditions caused by psychological tension, what Dr. Sarno termed Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS) since 1991 and worked collaboratively with Dr. John E. Sarno for over 20 years. Dr. Sarno trained her in TMS diagnosis and treatment and referred patients to her on a regular basis during all of those years and also after he retired from practice. He invited her to write a chapter in his book, The Divided Mind. They became personal friends in additional to being colleagues. In The Divided Mind, Dr. Sarno wrote of Dr. Segal ‘We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Segal’s contribution to this volume. She is an erudite rheumatologist and a clinician of great warmth.’ In 2023 she wrote the book, Breaking Out of Pain: Living the Legacy of John E. Sarno, MD, as first author along with Dr. Eric Sherman, Dr. Arlene Feinblatt, and Dr. Frances Sommer Anderson.
In 2016, it was Dr. Segal’s great honor to have been given the opportunity make the presentation at the Columbia University Medical Center Psychosomatic Conference: ‘Healing Unexplainable Pain’ paying tribute to Dr. Sarno’s life’s work and achievements. Dr. Segal was also interviewed in the documentary film about Dr. Sarno entitled, ‘All The Rage’, which premiered in 2016.
Dr. Leonard-Segal has published in peer-reviewed academic journals in the areas of rheumatology and of drug development. She is skilled in clinical trial design and analysis and served as a Division Director at the Food and Drug Administration from 2005 – 2013. Because of that experience, she is sought after as a clinical and regulatory consultant for drug development projects.
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Charlie Merrill, MSPT
Owner of Merrill Performance
Charlie Merrill, MSPT, is the owner of Merrill Performance in Boulder, CO where he's practiced, mentored, and taught manual therapy and chronic pain care for 25 years. Charlie uses a mind-body approach to treat primary pain with a wide range of clients including the best runners, cyclists, rock climbers, and CrossFitters in the world. He consults with Lin Health, a digital health company aimed at scaling and expanding access to evidence-based pain care. He’s the co-developer of the clinician course “Beyond Pain Education” and developed a 12-week program for athletes looking to overcome chronic pain. He’s actively promoting a clinical paradigm shift digitally and through podcasting and is a social media influencer in the pain and fitness space. Charlie is a competitive masters athlete in multiple disciplines and has invented and co-patented mobility tools with Rogue Fitness.
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Georgie Oldfield MCSP (Mrs)
Physiotherapist & Founder of SIRPA
Georgie Oldfield MCSP is a UK Physiotherapist who initially specialised in Respiratory Care, before changing direction in 1990, in order to be able to work part-time, after starting a family. Over the years she gained experience working with patients with varied conditions, including musculoskeletal, neurological and auto-immune conditions.
Coming across Dr Sarno and visiting him in 2007 was an epiphany for Georgie, completely changing her professional life, as well as her own health. After starting out by working with her own patients, Georgie felt the calling to do more to raise awareness of this life-changing concept and approach. As a result of this she set up SIRPA in 2010 as a training organisation for health professionals and coaches, creating the first training in this field. This moved online in 2018 and in September 2024, SIRPA launches an exciting, new 3part online course. SIRPA’s membership runs alongside the courses, providing a strong community of practitioners. The membership provides support and guidance as practitioners evolve in this field, as well as providing ongoing peer support and clinical supervision. In 2011, Georgie also launched SIRPA’s first online recovery programme, which was completely redeveloped in 2022, and in 2014 she published her book, ‘Chronic Pain: Your Key to recovery’. Georgie continues to work to raise awareness of the concept of psychophysiological conditions. This has included being invited to give a TEDx talk in 2019, speaking at numerous events and being interviewed as a Specialist on the Tonight programme on ITV in the UK, about chronic pain. Since 2015, SIRPA has also organised and hosted international conferences in London, to which some of our US colleagues kindly came over to support us. The next conference will be in May 2025. Website: SIRPA
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Dan Ratner, PsyD
Psychologist
Dr. Dan Ratner is a leading expert in mind-body psychology, host of the Crushing Doubt podcast, and author of Crushing Doubt: An Advanced System For Mind-Body Symptom Relief. After his life-changing experience resolving eight-years of chronic back pain, he has cured thousands of symptom sufferers, changing their minds with science and logic. Building on the works of Dr John Sarno, his Columns System organizes mind body experience to alleviate both chronic and acute symptoms. His resources to help are available at www.crushingdoubt.com. His podcast is available on Youtube and Spotify. You can order his book from https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore.
Dan is from Shaker Heights, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Brown University and Psy.D. from Widener University. He runs online seminars, groups, and consultations helping people around the world.
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Nicole Sachs, LCSW
Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW is a speaker, writer, psychotherapist, retreat leader, and podcaster who has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and other conditions. She is the author of the book The Meaning of Truth, the online courses Freedom from Chronic Pain and Freedom From an Anxious Life, and co-author alongside Christina Sarno Horner of The Sarno x Sachs Solution, a practitioner training that avails clinicians and coaches worldwide of this life-changing work. Her upcoming book, Mind Your Body, will be released by Penguin/Random House in February, 2025.
Website is now www.thecureforchronicpain.com but will be re-branded by the June 20th and will be found at www.nicolesachs.com or www.yourbreakawake.com
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Christina Sarno-Horner, LMHC
Christina is a dedicated counselor, teacher, clinical director and supervisor and the owner of Suite 14 Psychotherapy in Brooklyn NY.
Christina’s late father, Dr. John Sarno, identified chronic pain as a neurogenic mind-body disorder (TMS) and pioneered a model of treatment that Christina has successfully applied in her clinical practice for two decades. Beyond clinical practice her commitment to professional development led to the growth of a supervisory and training program for post-graduate clinicians within her practice. She supports the growth of new and established clinicians in addressing a range of client concerns, including mind body conditions (TMS), depression and complex anxiety disorders. Christina’s approach is informed by the fundamental power of uncovering, acknowledging, and accepting the expansive array of emotions beyond our conscious control. Alongside her counseling and supervisory work Christina’s professional experience includes graduate-level teaching at Brooklyn College, New York University and Teacher’s College and organizational consulting within healthcare and education.
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David Schechter, MD
Sports & Family Medicine
Dr. Schechter graduated with a degree from Princeton University. While a medical student at NYU in the early 1980's, he was first exposed to a stress related disorder - his own! After successful treatment as a patient of Dr. John Sarno, he performed a telephone follow up study, in Dr. Sarno’s office. This study's results are cited in Dr. Sarno’s first two books.
After a residency in Family Medicine, he received a Certificate of Additional Qualifications in Sports Medicine. Dr. Schechter has been treating chronic pain and other functional disorders with a psycho-education approach for over 25 years in private practice. He has a credential in Integrative Pain Management.
In addition, Dr. Schechter is the author of Think Away Your Pain, The MindBody Workbook, the MindBody Workbook volume two, the MindBody Workbook for Teens and The Lessons Doctor Sarno Taught Me. The first three are home educational materials for stress-pain and functional disorders. The fourth is an educational tool for adolescents to help deal with and prevent these disorders. The final is a memoir style reflection on Dr. Sarno's influence in his career.
Dr. Schechter was the Principal Investigator of the Seligman Medical Institute between 2003-2007 and with that part-time grant, he published several papers, the final one an outcome study published in Alternative Therapies.
He is in private practice in Culver City, California and sees some telemedicine patients.
Websites: MindBodyMedicine.com, SchechterMD.com.
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Howard Schubiner, MD
Clinical Professor, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Cormendihealth.com
Dr. Howard Schubiner is an internist and a Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books. He lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Schubiner has consulted for the American Medical Association, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute on Mental Health. Dr. Schubiner is the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and Hidden From View, written with Dr. Allan Abbass.
Dr. Schubiner has collaborated extensively with colleagues such as Mark Lumley, Tor Wager, Yoni Ashar and Alan Gordon to develop two novel psychological treatments for chronic pain: Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), which have been shown to be highly effective in randomized, controlled trials. EAET is now listed as a treatment option in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-agency Task Force Report.
Dr. Schubiner sees patients virtually from anywhere in the world at cormendihealth.com and lives in the Detroit area with his wife of forty years. They have two adult children.
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Jamie Shafir, MSW
Psychotherapist, Health Coach, & Adolescent Specialist
Jamie Shafir, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and coach who specializes in working with adolescents experiencing PPD. Jamie Shafir is trained in, and practices, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy, and Attachment-Based Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. She is also Certified in Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way, as well as trained in Relationship Enhancement® to strengthen families. Jamie uses evidence-based practices to help adolescents experiencing PPD, through developmentally appropriate cognitive, behavioral, and emotionally focused interventions. Many of which include: psychoeducation, building awareness between feelings, somatic pathways of anxiety, and facilitating emotional experiencing and expression. She earned her master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California, where she was awarded the Order of Arête, the highest honor accorded to graduate students for notable contributions to the community. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociocultural Anthropology and minored in Human Rights from the University of California San Diego. Beyond her work, Jamie enjoys spending time with her family, baking, and goat yoga. Jamie provides therapy and health coaching through the Mind Body Therapy Center: https://www.mindbodytherapycenter.org/our-team.
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John Stracks, MD
Co-Founder and Medical Director of Cormendi Health
Dr. John Stracks is an Integrative Family Physician living in Illinois. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 2005 and completed both a residency in family medicine and a fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; he is board certified in both fields. Dr. Stracks has spent his entire medical career focusing on integrative strategies for healing, and. he is especially especially interested in the effect of emotions on physical symptoms. This led him to co-found Cormendi Health, along with his wife Lisa Stracks, specifically so they could expand the possibilities in offering mind-body healing methods to clients across the country. You can find out more about Dr. Stracks, his approach to healing, and his practice at cormendihealth.com.
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Rebecca Tolin, BA
Mind-Body Practitioner
Rebecca Tolin is a mind-body practitioner, educator and writer who comes to this field through a 13-year saga with ME/CFS. After seeing 50 practitioners, Rebecca finally recovered through the PPD model. This experience was so profound, she’s devoted her work to helping people with CFS, Long Covid and other neuroplastic symptoms. Rebecca is the creator of the Be Your Own Medicine course, which blends mind-body education with somatic meditation, emotional awareness, exposure therapy and nervous system regulation. She spreads science and story through her blog and YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@rebeccatolinmind-bodycoach. Prior to this career, Rebecca worked as a broadcast journalist for ABC, NBC and PBS affiliates. You can learn more about Rebecca through her website. https://www.rebeccatolin.com
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Christie Uipi, LCSW
Psychotherapist & Health Coach
Christie (she/her) is the Executive Director of The Better Mind Center and a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. Christie is also a recovered chronic pain patient herself. The healing process was so profoundly transformational for her quality of life that she has dedicated her career to supporting others through their recoveries. She lectures nationally on psychotherapeutic interventions to treat chronic pain and is committed to cross-disciplinary collaboration between mental health and physical medicine. Christie worked alongside Alan Gordon and Dr. Howard Schubiner to develop Pain Reprocessing Therapy.
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Brandon Yarns, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Staff Physician, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Dr. Yarns is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist, Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Staff Physician at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He completed a research fellowship and master’s degree in research at UCLA, geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Yale, and psychiatry residency at the University of New Mexico. Since 2017, Dr. Yarns has been practicing, teaching, and conducting federally funded clinical trials using emotional awareness and expression therapy for chronic pain. He also has expertise in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy and is a Certified Teacher with the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association. He is the author of over six dozen peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts, and chapters. He has a growing YouTube channel @BrandonYarnsMD.
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Dario Zagar, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Dr. Zagar is an associate professor of neurology at Yale University who has been in practice for twenty years. Dr. Zagar received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College of Columbia University and received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his neurology residency at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University Medical Center, where he was also chief resident. He completed a Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship at the Neurological Institute, and is also board certified in Headache Medicine.
As with many in the field, his interest in mind-body medicine arose from personal experience. After suffering with back pain in his early 20s, a chance discovery of John Sarno’s book “Healing Back Pain” would go on to change both his personal and professional life. Since that time, he has worked to integrate mind-body approaches into a general neurology practice, particularly in treatment of headache, chronic pain, and functional neurological disorders.
Lunch Table Discussants
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Lee Canter, MSW
Lee’s commitment to helping other sufferers of chronic pain disorders is a direct outgrowth of his experience with chronic migraine symptoms. After over seven years of being almost bedridden, seeing numerous medical professionals and getting no help from traditional biomedical treatments, he was finally cured of his symptoms using a psychophysiologic treatment approach. Critical to his recovery was the support he received from current board member Dr. David Schechter, and former board member Derek Sapico, LMFT.
Lee began his professional career as a clinical social worker. He then became a highly successful entrepreneur. His first company, Canter and Associates Inc. was a nationally recognized educational training company. Over the life of the company, over one million educators and parents purchased its books and videos or participated in its training programs. The company was sold to Sylvan/Laureate Inc. His second company, Center for Transformative Teacher Training, continued his efforts in developing ground breaking training materials for educators and was sold to his co-founder.
His passion is to use his professional expertise and his personal experience to help spread the word on the use of a psychophysiologic treatment approach to other chronic pain sufferers, especially those with migraine symptoms.
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Alan Gordon, LCSW
Founder, Pain Psychology Center
Alan Gordon, LCSW, is the founder and director of the Pain Psychology Center, where he oversees a team of forty therapists. Alan developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a cutting- edge protocol for treating chronic pain. He recently completed a groundbreaking neuroimaging study on the efficacy of PRT in conjunction with the University of Colorado-Boulder. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Times of London, and the Today Show. He was featured in the film Pain Brain and is the author of The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain. Alan has presented on the topic of pain treatment at conferences and trainings throughout the country.
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Callie Klebanoff, LCSW
Psychotherapist
When it comes to treating neural pathway chronic pain, I work from a neural biological perspective. I help clients gain accurate education about pain and other physical symptoms that are experienced in the body and collaborate to find the unique barriers that are keeping clients in the pain-fear cycle. In addition to exploring dynamic patterns, utilizing Pain reprocessing Therapy and mindfulness meditation, I help my clients to develop self-compassion and deep self-awareness required to empower positive change, healing and ultimately deactivate the pain pathways in the brain.
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Daniel Lyman, LCSW, MPA
Psychotherapist
Daniel is a psychotherapist based in Portland, OR and the Executive Director of the Mind Body Therapy Center . He specializes in the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety (including OCD), depression, and sexuality. He earned both a master’s degree in Social Work and Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He was a founding member of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, and has been working in the chronic pain field for over a decade. He is currently a clinical supervisor at the Mind Body Therapy Center and a Clinical Trainer at the Pain Reprocessing Therapy Center. He has worked with thousands of clients to overcome pain on 6 continents (still waiting on Antarctica). Outside of his therapy work, Daniel is a playwright and likes to exercise, play with his dog, and travel.
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Rob Munger, MA, MS - Vice President & Co-Founder
Rob is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University Extension School & Summer School. He specializes in Health Economics and decision-making. He has created the largest source of information for the public about PPD at TMSWiki.org. He also has an undergraduate concentration in computer science and experience as a trainer, consultant and integrator in the computer industry.