Do you want to live your fullest potential?
Do you want to live free of chronic pain?
Hi, I’m Joseph
I too have lived a history of chronic pain. I understand what it is like to have periods of constant pain, to feel the fear of not knowing when it will strike again, to feel the frustration and anger at my own body sabotaging my life and limiting my potential. I offer this work as an expression of my passion for sharing the tools that I did not have during the many years that I spent stuck with chronic pain. Discovering Pain Reprocessing Therapy was life-changing for me as I immediately saw in it the future of my work.
I am an experienced bodyworker, trained in Sports Massage, traditional Chinese Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology. I have 15 years experience supporting people to feel more healthy, pain-free, and alive in their bodies.
In my 20s I travelled a lot, especially in South America where I was able to explore and practice the traditional medicine practices of another culture, studying with shamanic healers and learning some of their fascinating ways of treating body, mind and spirit.
I have experience as a facilitator of ‘threshold’ work, rites of passage, mens work, sweat lodge, youth work, and I spent 4 years as a district councillor representing Totnes. I am a husband, father of 2, a musician, and beekeeper.
I bring all of my life experience to my work with a passion for, and belief in, personal growth and living life to its fullest.
MY STORY
My Journey with PRT
Since childhood I have always known that I wanted my work to help people. I was naturally drawn to bodywork, requesting my first massage table for my 14th birthday. I trained in Sports Massage, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology in college, alongside music.
In my early teens I first experienced my back ‘going’. It was a sudden, debilitating pain in my lower back that left me hobbling about for days and scared that there was something horribly wrong with me.
Over the following years I experienced more episodes, usually at times when I was feeling stressed or under a lot of pressure. They became more frequent and more painful until I was more-or-less constantly experiencing a low level of pain with occasional spikes that could incapacitate me for up to a week at a time. I tried massage, chiropractic, osteopathy, acupuncture, pain killers, healings and anything else I came across, but nothing helped.
The turning point was when a friend lent me a book. John Sarno MD’s groundbreaking work ‘Healing Back Pain’ had already catalysed a whole field of therapeutic work and helped many hundreds of people overcome chronic pain symptoms. Incredible as it was, it was an incomplete work and did not provide the tools that I needed to overcome my symptoms. I spent years working with the emotional aspects of my pain patterns and was eventually able to overcome lower back pain, only to be hit with sciatica.
After a year of even deeper work I was finally able to leave my sciatica symptoms behind me.
When I heard about Pain Reprocessing Therapy, a cutting-edge treatment based on Sarno’s work but with the gaps filled in, I booked myself onto the first available training without a moment's hesitation and immediately began to apply the tools as I learned them. Firstly on myself, as I had developed Repetitive Strain Injury symptoms in my wrist, which I was able to completely eliminate in only 3 days, and then with clients who were seeing me for massage but had chronic symptoms that were clearly neuroplastic.
In the years since, I have seen clients with a wide variety of symptoms and have had the privilege of guiding their journeys out of pain. The moment that a client tells me that their symptoms have completely stopped is one of the sweetest imaginable and it inspires me anew every time.
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