Regain Confidence And Freedom From Pain.
"The focus here, at Sussex Pain Coach, is to help those people whose world has shrunk because of persistent pain"
A Fresh Approach.
Learn to take charge of unresolved pain.
Persistent pain can quietly take over your world — not just your body, but your confidence, your choices, your sense of what’s possible. It’s easy to start living smaller, doing less, waiting for pain to go away before life can begin again.
But what if there was a way back to an active life again? What if pain itself is pointing the way out?
My work is about empowering you with the knowledge and experiences that show the way out of pain, so you can become more confident in your body.
Through curiosity, reflection, and gradual experimentation, we seek ways for you to expand your world again — pushing pain back into the background where it belongs.
Want to know more? Then here’s our process…
Learn. Act. Iterate.
Learn...
...to read your pain and build confidence.
The first step in overcoming a painful body is to truly understand it. That means having meaningful conversations about it, gathering feedback and learning what those pain signals you’re getting actually mean.
In our work together, we take time to explore what your pain means to you, how it shapes your life, and what it might be trying to tell you. Many people have never had the chance to really talk about their pain in this way — to have it witnessed without judgment, without rushing to “fix” it.
As we talk, I’ll help you learn the “language of pain” — to notice when it’s asking you to rest, and when it’s safe to keep moving. This understanding is the foundation for confidence: learning why your body isn’t betraying you, but instead, how it’s trying to communicate a path to healing the only way it can.
Through learning, you’ll begin to feel empowered and see your pain more clearly — inspiring confidence in your body again.
But learning is only the first step. Next we need to…
Act...
... on what you learn, and start experimenting.
Being inspired to overcome pain is great but nothing beats the experience of doing it. So the next step is to gently bring understanding into action — to move, explore, and rediscover what’s possible.
Together, we’ll start right at the edges of what you think is possible — close enough to feel safe, but just far enough to invite curiosity and change. These small, intentional steps help you build confidence through experience, not just ideas.
Every act of movement, every moment of engagement, becomes feedback — information you can trust to free you from pain.
Success here isn’t about becoming quickly pain-free, but about expanding what you can do with your pain — ultimately shrinking pain into the background.
Acting with awareness turns learning into lived experience — and each step forward becomes proof that your world can grow again.
However, the journey to health is rarely straight. So we need to…
Iterate...
...to find your unique path to success.
The path to confidence over pain and freedom from limitation is full of twists, turns, and unexpected discoveries. That’s where iteration comes in.
As we experiment with exercise, education and action, some avenues will bring progress, and some may not. Every experience — success or setback — is valuable information. Together, we explore what works, and we seek to understand why certain approaches don’t. No judgment, only learning.
Iteration, therefore, helps you map the unique shape of your pain, revealing patterns, possibilities, and opportunities you might never have noticed. By accepting both what helps and what hinders, you gain insight, clarity, and agency over your experience. This ongoing process turns uncertainty into understanding, and trial into meaningful progress.
So who is our approach for?
Those Limited By Pain...
... who want to get active again.
The focus here, at Sussex Pain Coach, is to help those people whose world has shrunk because of persistent pain. Those people who’ve fallen through the cracks of therapy and want to get active again.
I work with people from amateur athletes who have had to give up their sport, to everyday folk with persistent back pain, to those suffering from extreme pain conditions like Fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos.
All these people share a common challenge ––their world has shrunk as a consequence of pain.
So if you want to expand your world again, and you’re willing to learn and experiment to do so, then you’ll feel right at home here.
If this resonates with you, then…
F.A.Q.
I often use the analogy of a burning house to describe the difference between Pain Therapies and Pain Coaching. It goes something like this:
“If your house caught fire then you would call the fire fighters to get the flames under control –– Right? But would you invite them back every week to soak down your house to prevent further fires?”
I hope the answer you’re reaching for is, NO!
When a fire is delt with then you would turn to reconstructing your house in a more resilient way –– wouldn’t you.
Well the same should be true for the fires of physical pain.
Manual therapy techniques, like osteopathy, massage , acupuncture, chiropractic etc (basically anything where you lay on a couch and receive treatment for your pain) are what I call “Fire Fighting” techniques.
These are incredibly effective at taking pain from an 8/10 to a 3/10 or less.
I class them as Fire Fighters because the techniques found in all these modalities focus on calming pain down.
But what they do not do (and I mean any of them) is help you become more resilient –– believe me, I’ve practiced many forms of manual therapy over the past 20 years.
(You can learn more about how to benefit from Fire Fighters here)
Coaching, on the other hand, is all about the process of building resilience.
We accomplish this through:
- Learning about your pain so that you can understand the sensations your body is giving you.
- Acting on the what we learn in ways that build more resilience, like through exercise, rest & recovery, and overcoming your triggers.
- Iterating from your successes and your setbacks, to continually map where pain is directing us towards health.
- And most importantly, helping you reach your goals so that your activities meet your values.
It’s really important to feel comfortable with any person you plan to work with regarding your pain. Pain can make you feel vulnerable so you need to feel at ease with the process.
Our “Free Assessment” sessions are designed to give you an opportunity to chat through your situation with me, and most importantly, get to know if I’m the right person for you.
We’ll take our time to chat everything through and I’ll propose a starting point that makes sense. You can then decide if you want to work with me or not — No commitment or expectations.
And if you decide to get started we’ll discuss a plan from there.
Put pain where it belongs…