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Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Treatment Training
Integrating CBT, ACT, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Your client has seen the specialists. The scans came back clean, or they came back with findings that no procedure has fixed. Somewhere along the way a doctor shrugged, or suggested therapy, and now they are sitting across from you. In pain. Watching to see whether you will take it seriously.
You do. You know their pain is real. What you may not have is a treatment plan for it.
Most of us were never trained in chronic pain. So we reach for what we have: general coping skills, a little mindfulness, a lot of validation. Meanwhile the client's life keeps narrowing. Activities dropped. Work reduced. An identity slowly reorganizing itself around what hurts.
This 6-hour live training with Jennifer Caspari, PhD gives you a working clinical framework for chronic pain. You will learn the three evidence-based psychotherapies for pain (CBT-CP, ACT, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy), practice the core exercises and scripts from each, and leave with a clear way to decide which approach fits the client in front of you.
Jennifer teaches this work as a health psychologist who has delivered it in medical clinics, academic hospitals, and VA settings, and as a clinician living with cerebral palsy who knows this territory from both chairs in the room.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Guide activity pacing and goal setting, helping clients schedule meaningful activities with a written coping-ahead plan for flares
- Use the Catch, Check and Challenge sequence to identify and shift catastrophizing, the primary cognitive driver of pain-related disability
- Lead diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation to lower sympathetic arousal and release the muscle bracing that amplifies pain
- Build pain acceptance with the Three A's (Acknowledge, Allow, Accommodate), so clients spend less energy fighting pain and more energy living around it
- Apply cognitive defusion (the Three N's) and observer-self exercises that help clients unhook from painful thoughts and experience themselves as larger than their pain
- Clarify values through guided visualization, then track daily behavior to tell pain-avoidant activity apart from values-driven activity
- Teach mindful breathing and the STOP skill to interrupt automatic reactivity when pain spikes
- Deliver pain reattribution, using the client's own evidence of shifting or easing pain to reframe symptoms as a misfiring alarm rather than structural damage
- Guide somatic tracking and NABS (Notice, Acknowledge, Befriend, Shift), helping clients meet pain and protective responses with curiosity and safety to break the pain-fear cycle
- Match and combine CBT-CP, ACT, and PRT components based on your assessment of pain type, fear-avoidance, and how worn down your client is from struggling with pain
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
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Three evidence-based approaches in one training
Working knowledge of CBT-CP, ACT, and PRT, with the research behind each
Session-ready scripts and exercises
Relaxation protocols, defusion exercises, somatic tracking language, and more, ready for your next session
An intervention-matching framework
Move from assessment to treatment selection with a clear way to choose or combine approaches per client
Live training with Q&A
Bring your real cases and stuck points to a full day of live teaching with Jennifer
A biopsychosocial understanding of chronic pain
Explore the factors that contribute to chronic pain, including the relationship between pain, psychological distress, fear, and avoidance.
Learn on your schedule
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Tools to help clients reclaim meaningful activities
Learn practical strategies to reduce pain-related fear and avoidance, build psychological flexibility, and help clients reconnect with the activities that matter to them.
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Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Jennifer Caspari
PhD
Jennifer Caspari, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist registered in British Columbia and Colorado with a background in general and health psychology. She specializes in working with clients living with acute and chronic health conditions and disabilities, and has practiced across medical clinics, academic hospitals, VA hospitals, outpatient clinics, integrated health clinics, and group private practice.
Her therapeutic approach centers on building psychological flexibility, supporting values-based behavior, and improving quality of life, and her style is collaborative, warm, and direct. She is the author of You Are More Than Your Body: 30+ Evidence-Based Strategies for Living Well with Chronic Illness, and a contributor to Psychology Today and The Globe and Mail.
Jennifer also lives with cerebral palsy, and she brings that lived experience of chronic health challenges into her clinical work and her teaching. She trains, mentors, and supervises other mental health professionals, and is passionate about putting evidence-based skills into the hands of clinicians.
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