Skills for Surviving Chronic Pain

HELP for CHRONIC or LONG-TERM PAIN

Chronic or long-term pain is pain that persists, in spite of standard medical treatments.

Living with chronic pain can create a vicious cycle of anxiety and frustration, dependence on other people, stress, and poor sleep.

Constant stress and poor sleep can lead to depression. Feeling helpless because of chronic pain can also make people feel worthless and unhappy.

In turn, this stress, depression and anxiety can magnify your pain and increase your suffering.

Sometimes you might feel that if only your pain would go away, your stress, anxiety and depression would disappear. But chronic pain does not easily go away.

How can you learn to cope better with this pain, so that your life is more active and fulfilled?

To meet the needs of pain patients INTEGRATED CIRCLE OF CARE is now offering a workshop presented by Dr. Kate Partridge, Psychologist:

This workshop is for patients who are living with long term pain, and who are experiencing such problems as:

Stress and anxiety
Poor sleep
Emotional distress
Irritability
Feelings of worthlessness

WORKSHOP GOALS

Education about chronic pain and stress and how to manage them.
Training in effective relaxation techniques to improve sleep and decrease muscle tension.
Improved feelings about yourself.
Decreased irritability.
Coping with other people’s reactions to your pain.

THE WORKSHOP

Two 2-hour sessions (4 hours total)
Two Friday mornings in a row
10 a.m. to 12 noon.

DATES: Date of next workshop to be announced.

ALL WORKSHOPS ARE LOCATED AT Integrated Circle of Care:
1385 North Routledge Park (one block North of Hyde Park & Gainsborough Rd.)

LOCATION:

INTEGRATED CIRCLE OF CARE
1385 North Routledge Park
Unit #5
London, Ontario

(Turn left/west one block north of Hyde Park and Gainsborough Rd. intersection)

COST: $200.00

Your Motor Vehicle Insurance or Extended Health Benefits may cover this workshop.

Contact Dr. Kate Partridge for information about INSURANCE COVERAGE for this workshop.

PAYMENT:

Payment must be made in advance. When you register online you will be given the opportunity to pay with your credit card through PayPal.

Payment can also be made by mail or in person at our office. Please make cheques payable to Dr. Kate Partridge. The cost of this seminar is $200.00.

Kate Partridge, Ph.D.

Kate Partridge, Ph.D., is a Registered Psychologist with thirty years of experience in working to help people and organizations deal with physical and emotional problems resulting from stress, depression and anxiety. Having worked in hospitals for a number of years, she has been in private practice since 1996.

Dr. Partridge is an experienced speaker and trainer who has presented mindfulness meditation and stress management seminars and workshops to a wide variety of corporations, government agencies, professional associations, and charitable organizations. Her training programs are based on well-researched and scientifically-informed techniques, and they are presented in a warm and lively manner that encourages participation and active learning.

Dr. Partridge has had a personal daily meditation practice since 1993. She has received training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School and at the Omega Center in New York State. She has trained in Mindfulness –Based Cognitive Therapy with Dr. Zindel Segal at CAMH in Toronto. Dr. Partridge has been teaching meditation courses in London for ten years.