comprehensive, science-backed education and tools to heal chronic pain and symptoms designed by expert therapists.
Download the app. Available for iPhone & Android.
10+ hours of video learning on how the brain and nervous system cause chronic pain/symptoms, and how to recover.
science-backed somatic practices and reflection exercises help you retrain your brain, increase activity, and restore safety in your nervous system.
access live workshops, Q&A, and technical support with the Guided Journey subscription.
Prolonged stress or injury can leave your nervous system hyper-sensitive.
the physical body is now healthy, but pain and symptoms don't go away.
our app is designed to self-assess, treat, and reduce neuroplastic pain and symptoms.
Our program was created by specialized, credentialed therapists who have spent thousands of hours researching and treating chronic pain and illness.
Designed by expert therapists
Based on the latest research
comprehensive
step-by-step approach
Chronic symptoms are often caused by a nervous system stuck in danger.
A belief that your body is permanently damaged or flawed.
An initial injury or infection that created a sense of physical danger.
Social or environmental factors that create a sense of danger.
You will learn how to somatically work with the sensations of pain and symptoms, and create safety and regulation while attending to them; this overtime retrains the brain to stop producing the sensations.
A step-by-step process is also provided to teach you how to increase movement, positions, activities, and living life, with less chronic symptoms.
explore the criteria for neuroplastic pain and symptoms.
Note: This quiz is meant for educational purposes. For a formal diagnosis, we recommend an assessment by a physician specialized in this area of care. This quiz and your score are not medical advice.
Heal at your own pace, structure your recovery, and take the confusion out of healing.
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Healing
Essentials
Regular price US$18.99/mo
US$17.09/mo
what you get
9-chapter healing system
10% off launch sale
Guided
Journey
Regular price US$99.99/mo
US$89.99/mo
what you get
plus
bonuses
Heal with a step-by-step app designed by expert therapists.
Our team blends specialized training in mind-body psychotherapy with real, lived experience of chronic illness and recovery.
MSW, RSW
Co-Director
MSW, RSW
Co-Director
MSW, RSW
Co-Director
When your brain and nervous system feel in danger, they sound the alarm - with pain and symptoms. Our mission is to help you turn this alarm off by restoring a sense of safety.
The Desensitize App will help you understand the science of chronic pain/symptoms and change the way you think about your body and activities. You'll use evidence-based somatic practices and meditations to restore safe communication between brain and body and regulate your nervous system. And you'll work step-by-step to desensitize your pain/symptom response by using graded exposure.
The app also goes deep. You'll be guided to understand and address the root causes of your chronic pain/symptoms. You'll process difficult emotions and trauma - the underlying fuel source of symptoms.
And finally, you'll develop new relationship and lifestyle strategies that help you feel healthy and regulated each day - so your healing sustains.
You'll progressively restore safety in your brain and nervous system. And as this happens, the alarm turns down! Your activity and freedom will expand, and your symptoms will reduce.
As specialized therapists, we witness every day our clients getting better.
Yes, this approach is based on real science.
Research has shown that many forms of chronic pain and symptoms are neuroplastic, and can be effectively reduced using a brain-based approach1,3,4,10,11. The education, strategies, and practices in the app are all based on evidence-based approaches, utilizing the most up-to-date research and our extensive clinical experience.
Can we brag for a second? Our approach is more comprehensive than other programs.
As a team of experienced, specialized therapists who have provided in-depth therapy for thousands of clients, we have a keen understanding of what is missing in many approaches. We know what needs to be addressed for our individuals to heal.
This is why we spent the last 5 years creating the most comprehensive approach for treating neuroplastic pain and symptoms - Embodiment-Based Symptom Desensitization (EBSD).
The basic app subscription provides access to our full, step-by-step model, including 9 comprehensive chapters of education, self-assessment, worksheets, daily strategies, brain retraining skills, movement strategies, and somatic practices.
EBSD effectively combines the most effective and up-to-date research and evidence-based practices, including:
If you have tried other brain retraining or nervous system regulation programs that didn't reduce your symptoms, it is time to build a healing plan that is more thorough and deep.
The science and treatment of chronic pain/symptoms is changing! Recent research shows that many forms of chronic pain and illness are neuroplastic, and can be reduced with the right treatment1,3,4,10,11.
Our app will help you learn the science and signs of neuroplastic pain/symptoms, to effectively self-assess your unique symptoms. You will gain an understanding of what is happening in your brain and body.
If your pain/symptoms are neuroplastic, we are confident this evidence-based program can help you.
As specialized therapists, we've witnessed hundreds of our clients get better, even though they were previously told their body was broken or their symptoms were permanent.
We designed our app to meet each person where they are currently at.
We provide practices for flare-ups and strategies you can use to make progress, even when your symptoms and/or functional limitations are high.
You'll follow a step-by-step plan to retrain your brain, regulate your nervous system, reduce your symptoms, and gradually expand your lifestyle - restoring the life you deserve!
One of the core goals of this approach is to restore deep feelings of safety and regulation in your nervous system.
The skills you'll be learning are not only designed to reduce pain and symptoms, they're focused on helping you feel better overall. This means you'll be building practices and strategies to improve your mood, reduce anxiety, make relationship changes, and develop healthier thinking patterns. This holistic approach is necessary in your healing journey, because all these factors are interconnected!
We hear you! There's a ton of information out there, and some of it can be conflicting and confusing.
This is why we made the app - to bring all the best information and evidence-based strategies together, in one comprehensive, step-by-step program.
Our app is structured into 9 chapters that walk you through the entire healing process. You'll progress your self-understanding, build skills, and feel better as you go.
Plus, you have the ability to ask questions and receive support using our interactive chat forum in our Guided Journey Subscription.
Our content was created by credentialed therapists who have specialized in treating chronic pain and illness for years.
No AI was used in creating this app. It is based on our real-world personal and clinical experience. We have spent thousands of hours successfully treating clients with chronic pain and symptoms - the app channels our clinical experience into a comprehensive healing program you can follow.
The community forum is moderated by us. The workshops and Q&A sessions (Available with our Guided Journey Subscription) are facilitated by our specialized team members.
There's no way around it - desensitizing your chronic pain/symptoms does require some work.
To be successful using the app, you'll need to make some time to learn from the educational videos, complete reflection exercises, apply the strategies, and use daily somatic and meditation practices.
We recommend spending approximately:
And if you feel like doing more than that, you can go for it!
We know this modern world is expensive. We know how chronic pain and illness can affect a person's financial situation. And we know that clinical services are unaffordable for many.
This is why we designed our app to have the lowest-possible pricing - to maximize accessibility.
Our mission is to give everyone access to the information, strategies, and practices needed to heal neuroplastic pain and symptoms. The minimum subscription costs just $18.99 per month. We believe the value provided at this price point is unmatched by other programs and services.
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