Trauma and Chronic Pain Therapy
An Innovative, Evidence Based Approach to Treating Trauma and Chronic Pain
Are you struggling with chronic pain or the lasting effects of trauma? Carole specializes in helping people break free from pain and emotional distress using cutting edge, trauma informed therapies. Whether it be trauma by wounding, or trauma through lack, Carole can help.
With over 35 years in occupational rehabilitation, Carole saw first hand how physical injuries often led to long-term psychological suffering. Frustrated by the slow progress of traditional treatments, she sought out faster, more effective approaches to healing pain, trauma, PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
Carole now integrates The Richards Trauma Process (TRTP), Associative Awareness Technique (AAT), and Somatic Experiencing and Emotional Processing—powerful methods that achieve lasting results by addressing both the mind and body. As one of the few physiotherapists in Australia trained in trauma-informed care, she takes a holistic approach, recognizing that unresolved trauma can keep the nervous system in a hyper-vigilant state, leading to persistent pain.
Many clients come to Carole seeking relief from addictions, depression and patterns of stress or anxiety that hold them back. Through her unique combination of physiotherapy and trauma work, she has seen remarkable recoveries—where clients regain a sense of ease in their bodies and regain agency over their lives. An important part of Carole’s approach is expanding the role of spirituality in our every day lives using heart/brain coherence.
The key to treating chronic pain is not what most people expect. 80% of chronic pain is related to nocioplastic symptoms that can be improved, and often eliminated, using a neuroplasticity approach.
Our understanding of chronic pain and neuroplastic conditions is advancing rapidly. Carole has followed this research over the past 7 years, most recently under a world leading mind body pain researcher and clinician, Prof Howard Schubiner MD. His research clearly shows that emotional processing is the most essential element of treating chronic pain.
If you’re ready to break free from pain and trauma, Carole offers both in-person and telehealth consultations. She registered as an NDIS provider and is also registered with health funds under physiotherapy (claims can be made under code 500 and 505).
Take the first step toward healing—reach out today by phone call on 02 6295 0400, email at info@livewellnaturally.com.au, or book online below.
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