Trauma and Chronic Pain?
Unlock Your Capacity to Heal
Breaking the cycle
If you’re experiencing the ongoing effects of trauma or you’re suffering with chronic pain, help is available. Using innovative, evidence based approaches that draw on a contemporary understanding of how the body and mind work together it is possible to break out of the cycle of pain and suffering and feel well again.
The journey of recovery
You maybe just starting your journey of recovery, or you may be well along that path. The path will probably seem endless if you have tried many therapeutic approaches. Your body will keep messaging you, in uncomfortable ways, telling you it still needs your attention.
Understanding the interplay between trauma and chronic pain
As a trauma therapist and pain physiotherapist, Carole deeply understands the intricate connection between emotional trauma and chronic pain. She works with trauma, and with chronic pain, often together.
Trauma alters the way that both your conscious and unconscious mind processes information, heightening sensitivity in the nervous system, and causing disruption and imbalance in the endocrine and immune systems, triggering in your body a heightened state of alertness, where there is no ‘off’ switch.
This heightened state can lead over time to chronic disease, depression, anxiety and chronic pain, as the nervous system becomes stuck in a loop of hyperactivity, amplifying discomfort and exacerbating emotional distress.
A Holistic Approach to Healing
Carole specialises in unravelling the complex threads of trauma and chronic pain.
She uses three cutting-edge techniques (along with a number of 'bottom up' embodied approaches as required). The Richards Trauma Process (TRTP), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS or 'parts' work) and a ‘hands on' approach called Associative Awareness Technique (AAT) which all work by healing the damaged or traumatised 'parts' of ourselves. Read more about these techniques here.
WHY TRTP, AAT and IFS?
They work! They work quickly, gently, safely and do not retraumatize the client. So they are more cost effective than months, or even years, of therapy. I can help you understand the research and science behind why they work. I’m incredibly impressed and excited by these processes and the long-term outcomes they achieve.
Carole Young
Trauma and Chronic Pain Therapist
Carole was a pioneer and leader in the field of Occupational Health, Safety & Rehabilitation (OHS&R) to Australian industry. She wrote one of the leading texts on implementing the Workers Compensation Rehabilitation regulations. Apart from 35 years’ experience in occupational rehabilitation, Carole has also studied, taught and consulted in the field of sustainability for 10 years.
Carole is one of a few physiotherapists in Australia who offer a comprehensive mind /body, trauma informed approach to therapy. When pain persists and becomes chronic, science tells us that it can be due to a sensitised and "hyper vigilant" nervous system. This is a nervous system believing, and responding to, anxious, depressing or stressful thoughts. The field of psychotherapy tells us that exploring unconsciously held thoughts and beliefs and their effect on the nervous system can provide vital clues to why pain persists. This may seem outside of the scope of practice for a physiotherapist, but for those physiotherapists who have done comprehensive training in a trauma informed approach and trauma therapies, it is a very powerful tool to help people in chronic pain because it can give us so much information about what is going on in the body.
Carole's focus and passion now is working with the really tough chronic pain conditions, bringing a broader perspective to the standard physio-therapeutic model.
Ready to get started? Book an initial consult with Carole
What people are saying…
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“I found Carole Young and had sessions with her. It is the best thing I could have done as it unlocked the core issues and helped me reclaim confidence and empowerment. I feel now as though I truly have the ability to live life on my own terms unhindered by traumatic issues from the past. Carole was the perfect facilitator for me, she is professional, kind and compassionate and it is easy to see how much she loves doing her chosen work. She provides a nurturing and safe environment in which to create the perfect conditions for change at the deepest level. TRTP is amazing and I have recommended it to several of my friends and would encourage anyone that has experienced any kind of trauma to try it for themselves."
Connie H.
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“I cannot find words for the gratitude I feel. After many years of trauma, pain and suffering, years of counselling and various other therapies, with Carole’s help and guidance, after only 3 sessions, I finally feel free and at peace with myself mind, body and soul. The power of her work leaves me breathless. So incredibly grateful for this woman.”
Jane B
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"Carole was amazing. Don't get me wrong, I had to work at it, and she made sure that I did. No corners were left unturned, ever. Carole's skills and her presence being in the moment, the here and now, were excellent. I spent 2018 seeing doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists and yet she was what I had been after for so long. Carole explored the trauma and all its issues, and she placed a trauma-informed practice into action, with astonishing results. I am smiling again and I have space and love to give and receive. I have life, I have spirit. The old me is back. I OWE CAROLE MY LIFE!”
Scott P