Help clients reclaim and rebuild a meaningful life when chronic illness or chronic pain seems to have taken over.
Chronic illness and pain turn people’s worlds upside down – physically, emotionally, and mentally. As a therapist, it isn’t always clear how you can best support clients as they navigate their stress, grief, identity changes, and day-to-day struggles. That’s where The Psychotherapy Toolbox for Chronic Illness & Chronic Pain comes in.
Inside, you’ll find over 75 practical, ready-to-use tools – drawn from CBT, ACT, DBT, positive psychology, and more – designed to help clients manage the physical and emotional toll of chronic illness and pain. These skills will allow clients to:
Includes links to downloadable worksheets and 13 audio meditations!
Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as “The Brain Lady”, is an award-winning, best-selling author and international speaker with over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy and neurotherapy. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, chronic illness, chronic pain, and sleep.
She is the author of The Psychotherapy Toolbox for Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain. Debra originally created skills to help those with chronic pain and illness while managing her own chronic illness and chronic pain (thankfully now healed). As a psychotherapist and neurotherapist – and through extensive study with leading experts in the field – she further developed and taught these skills in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program serving adults with physical or mental illness.
She also designed and facilitated groups for clients with chronic physical illness and presented a workshop for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) titled Psychotherapy for the Physically Ill Client.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Burdick is the owner of The Brain Lady. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Burdick contributes to SelfGrowth.com.
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