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What to Look for in a Chronic Pain-Affirming Therapist

Finding a good therapist is hard. Finding a good therapist when you live with chronic pain is harder. The standard mental health system wasn't designed with chronic pain in mind, and many clinicians — even well-meaning ones — bring assumptions to this work that can do more harm than good. If you've ever been told that your pain is primarily psychological, that you just need to reduce