Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS), Psycho-Physiological Pain (PPD), Mind-Body Syndrome, Neuroplastic Pain, Neural Pathway Pain, Stress Illness Recovery in Newbury West Berkshire and Online Nationwide / Worldwide including the USA

Why choose me as your Mind-Body Therapist
Five top reasons to trust in my proven success working in this field and to be rest assured that you are in very safe, experienced hands:

1/Recognised by Prestige National Awards as being The Top Hypnotherapist in London and the South East of England 2024 with over 60 Five Star Reviews
2/Top London and the South East of England TMS Tension Myoneural Syndrome Therapist 2024.
3/Global Recognition Award 2024 for my contribution in the field of Hypnosis and Mind-Body Neuroplastic Pain Recovery.
4/Over 13 years experience as a Senior Mind-Body Therapist.
5/Recognised both nationally and internationally as one of the most experienced UK Therapists in this field.

There is a lot of information on this page to digest, so why not save it, read a little or a lot, at a pace that feels right for you and then when you are ready, whether it’s today, in a month’s time or even in 6 months time, give me a call, because if what you read on this page resonates with you and you would like to find out more about working with me I can assure you that there really is hope that you will become pain and symptom free. By raising your awareness of how your mind affects your body, you will be in a much better place to understand how you can help yourself feel fully empowered to manage and take control of your symptoms.
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I sincerely hope you feel a sense of optimism from reading my information below.

Education is power, let’s start here, your chronic pain is real, there is nothing imaginary about it, some people become resistant initially to this work believing they are being told ‘your pain is all in your head’ so let’s set the record straight: The first thing to know is when you are feeling your pain it is your body’s way of communicating with you, your pain is real, it is telling you that right now you need to be distracted away from what is too painful to focus on emotionally. Yes it is true to say that all pain comes from the brain and once you have ruled out cancer, a tumour or fracture it is not a structural hurt that needs to be operated on or repaired by seeing a physiotherapist or other ‘body part specialist’. Many people initially link their pain to an accident or fall of some sort without making the emotional connection until months or sometimes years down the line. Ask your self this question ‘ What was going on in my life around the time of my injury or my pain / symptom developing. See the bigger picture, look for emotional stresses perhaps in your relationships, family concerns, conflict at work, money concerns or any other life challenging event.Your mind and body are simply trying to protect you by giving you an ongoing chronic pain focus and distraction.
Remember I only treat chronic pain with a mind body approach, acute pain such as a small burn or a pulled muscle or sprain will heal naturally in just a few short weeks. Our bodies know how to heal, even the largest bone in the body the femur takes just around 6 weeks to heal.

So if your injury could and should heal what stops it?
Your lingering chronic pain is in fact coming from your suppressed and repressed emotions such as fear, anger, worry, frustration, sadness etc, did you know that 95% or your thoughts and feelings are sub conscious, you are not aware of them, these suppressed and repressed emotions may be long held onto possibly triggering from as far back as your childhood adversity experiences. You have in fact without realising it developed unhealthy neural pathways of learnt behaviour whereby your emotions trigger reactions of high alert in your body.
Did you know that most childhood adversity shows up decades later in your 30’s 40’s and 50’s. Check out your ACE score by scrolling further down this page, empower yourself to understand how your early years affect you today, take the ACE Score Test and find out how high levels of trauma you experienced as a child mean you are far more likely to develop chronic pain and auto immune conditions as an adult.

It is not always the case that you experienced childhood trauma. Do not think that we need to address your young years in therapy if your childhood was mainly happy. You may have experienced a traumatic trigger in later life that you have not fully worked through or perhaps it is more your self induced pressure coming from your personality type. I will talk more about that later. Whatever has caused your Tension Myoneural Syndrome, your healing will come from taking a holistic approach to the whole of you, this means addressing all of your life experiences, your personality traits and the way you handle stress day to day.

‘This is not about taking a leap of faith, it’s about taking a leap of science based evidence’ Alan Gordon

It may be that you are suffering from a symptom equivalent such as severe anxiety, depression, panic or chronic fatigue or Long Covid? Why do you suspect that is? Are you open to to finding out the true reason? Read on:

Simply put our mind and body are connected: What we think we feel and this affects our behaviour. Did you know we have over 80,000 thoughts a day. Imagine how much more relaxed you would feel without all of those high-alert thoughts of rage, anger, fear panic, worry and sadness.

How long is this recovery going to take? Many people that contact me have tried everything else including regular physio, pain relief medication even surgery which may seem to have typically fixed the problem short term until pain shows up back there again or manifests in another part of the body or on another level of the spine. So by the time patients and clients contact me there is an intensity and an urgency that they just want the discomfort gone. In the western word we are so familiar with giving our power away, taking a pain killer for the pain to ease up or seeing a GP or specialist who has trained to focus on a particular body part, in other words we have grown up to think that we need someone else or something else to fix us. This is important to remember when answering this question as everybody’s recovery journey is different, it will, to a point be dependent on how much work, awareness and understanding you are willing to do on yourself without over pressurising yourself because this in fact may actually cause more symptoms. That’s why working with a professional such as myself, supporting you at a pace that feels right for you, typically means that by the time you have had 5 – 10 sessions you really can notice a massive shift in your mind body symptoms. All you need to do is have an open mind and trust in the process that you really do have the power to recover and my role is support and facilitate that process far more effectively than if you were to try it alone.

Remember our brains are plastic, we can teach it new things and reprogramme ourselves to think, feel and behave differently. In TMS Mind Body Terms we can teach ourselves new Neural Pathways of Safety Using Hypnotherapy to make these suggestions of change will greatly enhance this ability, it really is a wonderful powerful tool which is safe, durable and effective. I strongly believe that this is why I am able to get and maintain such effective results with my patients time after time supporting the development of new neural pathways of safety.

Life can be challenging
When we feel emotional, this energy in motion (emotion) literally gets bottled up inside of us. These emotions filter through to our body from our mind and then have to come out somehow. How do they come out? They show up in our body as physical symptoms such as:

Musculoskeletal:

Chronic Pain in our Back, Neck, Shoulder, Knee, Thigh, Hip, Elbow TMJ, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, RSI, Whiplash etc

Stomach and Bowels:

Abdominal pain, Ulcers Nausea, Colitis, Hiatus Hernia, Heartburn, Acid Re-flux IBS, Frequent Urination, Unexplained Pelvic Pain

Skin and Hair problems:

Eczema, Psoriasis, Rashes, Alopecia, Chronic Hives

Heart and Lung problems:

Unexplained Chest Pain, Repetitive Cough, High Blood Pressure, Shortness of Breath, Palpitations

Long term conditions:

Long Covid, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Dizziness, Tinnitus, Migraine and Tension Headaches, Vulvodynia, Anxiety, Depression Panic Attacks, Difficulty Swallowing, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Eating Disorders, Bells Palsy, Self Mutilation or Self Harming Suicidal Tendencies etc

Typically people with TMS or Mind / Body Syndrome have been through things in their live that they found unsettling. Feelings such as anger, hurt, grievances, frustrations, deep sadness, fear and anxiety over time, if not let go of can play havoc with our emotional, mental and physical well being. This causes an awful lot of Complex Post Traumatic Stress in our bodies. Our instinctive fight, fight, freeze or fawn response kicks in to try to protect us as it would have in the days when we were trying to save ourselves from being attacked by a lion. In modern times the metaphoric lion may now be our boss, our partner or a particularly overwhelming scenario.

Simply put our mind and body are connected

There is also the current day to day stress that we generate, in this fast paced world that we have created for ourselves this can be a build up of minor scenarios or a sudden event that we are confronted with. How many of the list below can you relate to?

Work Pressure
Family Dynamics
Relationships Past and Present
Narcissistic Family Abuse
Financial Concerns
Generated Life Traumas
Commitment Overload
and of course small everyday challenges in today’s fast paced world that
build up inside of us.

It is said that it is not what happens to us in life but how we process those events that cause the problem. Our unique personality makes us who we are. Typically people suffering from TMS, or Mind body Disorders have what is known as a Type A Personality who internalize their thoughts and feelings have high standards for themselves and of others and can put a great deal of pressure on themselves to be perfect.

Below are some of these personality traits that I see in my patients time after time.

Being critical of yourself
Worrying about what others think
Being a worrier
Being a perfectionist or having high expectations of yourself or others
Having low self esteem
People pleasing
Feeling overly dependent on others
Feeling overly responsible or overwhelmed with responsibility
Tending to hold thoughts and feelings in (Internalizing)
Having difficulty making decisions
Having difficulty letting things go
Not standing up for yourself or expressing yourself for fear of consequences

TMS(Tension Myoneural Syndrome) PPD Stress Illness Relief Mind-Body Syndrome Therapist face to face in Newbury West Berkshire, London and Online

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Many patients who find me have already educated themselves around the mind-body approach and recognise that they are now caught up in the pain, fear, worry cycle of Tension Myoneural Syndrome confused as to how to help themselves recover, often feeling overwhelmed with too much freely available information online.

Perhaps like you, they have read books and listened to podcasts but are still no better and are now frustrated as to what to do next to free themselves from debilitating chronic pain and TMS Equivalent symptoms? Don’t worry, you’ve landed on the right page. Read on to find out how I can take you from fight flight to rest and repair far more easily than if you were to try it alone.

A little about my background and approach to this work
I am proud to be one of the very first UK therapist’s to qualify in the field of Chronic Pain / Stress Illness back in 2011 via an organisation called SIRPA. Now with over 13 years experience in the field of Mind Body / TMS Therapy I have devised my own comprehensive, integrative and hugely successful recovery programme which enables me to integrate my skill set as a Clinical and Cognitive Hypnotherapist whereby I can support you to access the 95% of you that is subconscious, i.e your emotions, reactions, fears and suppressed / repressed anger still being held onto by your nervous system. This is particularly helpful if you have tried the more traditional method of journalling and you are either resistant to it or it simply does not work for you. I’m also proud to be classed as award winning Hypnotherapist having recently been named as Hypnotherapist of the year 2024 for London and The South East, so you can rest assured you are in very safe, experienced hands.

I offer motivating support using both a therapeutic and a coaching model to people both face to face in London, Newbury – Just 45 minutes by train from Paddington and online nationwide and internationally via Zoom. My passion is to literally give people their lives back This is reflected in all of the lovely positive testimonials and reviews that are left for me on both Google and Yell.com do take a look at those on the front page of my website if you have not done so already. As an added bonus after doing this work, my patients tell me they feel even more empowered then they did before as you really do learn so much about yourself along your healing journey. I am committed to keeping fully abreast and up to date with all of the exciting changes happening in this field as ‘brain science’ is fast becoming the go to method for the relief of chronic pain, symptom imperatives and TMS equivalents. I am proud to be associated with the PPDA (Psycho-physiological Pain Disorder Association) listed as a registered UK therapist. Look out for their new highly informative website www.SYMPTOMATIC.me

What this means for you is that you when in comes to supporting you rather than a group recovery programme I offer bespoke one on one support. In this way you have my complete attention to focus on your personal recovery journey whatever that may look like and feel like, enabling me to devise a personalised relief and recovery programme for your Neural Pathway / Neuroplastic Pain.

Want to know what my past patients say about me? I have successfully built up a highly regarded reputation, simply search Louise Levy Therapy Services Reviews
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Interested in working with me? Read on:
What makes my programme different?
From the moment you sign up to my relief programme you will feel supported and encouraged to keep going through your own personal mental, psycho-physiological and emotional journey even if this means two steps forward and one step back. I really do I understand how isolating and desperate you can feel at times, especially if you feel that no one else has your specific symptoms or is going through your particular emotional challenges. Right at the start of your healing journey Once you have chosen to come on to one of my recovery programmes, I sign you up with six weeks free use of the Curable App. This is a fantastic app which is all based on the mind body healing approach

My aim for you you is that by the end of your programme you will see the same situation in a different way, and that’s a good thing. So whether you are right at the beginning of your awareness of Mind-Body Syndrome Therapy or you ‘get it’ but feel you need some one on one specialist therapeutic support you’ve landed on the right page. If you’ve already done the education through reading, podcasts and videos and you ‘believe’ you have TMS or Mind-Body Syndrome Pain including equivalents such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Severe Anxiety then my bespoke specialist integrative TMS relief programme will help you get back to a point where self regulation can then take place. I do this by introducing you to and drawing on proven established approaches in the field of Mind-Body Syndrome Recovery such as journaling, supporting you with writing exercises and emotional awareness and expression through therapy, inner child healing, allude to somatic tracking with pain reprocessing exercises and introduce you to positive self talk and goal setting to reduce fear of doing further damage and avoidance.

Remember not all emotional healing is linear and rest assured we will go at a pace that feels right for you without putting too much pressure on yourself to recover overnight. All of my bespoke programmes are tailor made to you so if a technique is not working for you or you prefer to keep things simple without lots of techniques we do just that and work psycho-therapeutically through your story towards your ‘back to normal’ whatever that looks like, and feels like for you because of this you can choose to opt for my more paired back 5 session relief programme or my fully integrated 10 session programme (Both of these programmes follow on from a 90 minute diagnostic session).

This is a human condition, we all show up differently daily and there are many things that can impact on our nervous system so be kind with yourself if you are experiencing periods of stress in your life. With my own unique set of skills and competence.

As a qualifed CBT Life and Personal Development Coach I will implement coaching tools to support your personal growth and development. We work with both short term and long term goals, breaking down these goals into bite size manageable chunks so that you do not feel overwhelmed.
In this way taking you from where you are now to where you want to get to, we simply one by one remove all the obstacles out of the way so that you are left with a clear path to get from A – B.Take yourself forward in time and imagine how you will feel when you are finally free to just get on and enjoy the rest of your life.

I can draw on the powerful principles of NLP to reprogram your old reactive patterns and limiting belief.

My 10 Session Recovery Programme also also include parts therapy, integrate mindfulness, Polyvagal Theory and OldPain2Go used to turn off old pain signals In this way I offer a really comprehensive, tailor made nuts and bolts approach, enabling you to create new neural pathways of safety whilst being fully therapeutically supported in applying the principals of recovery that feel right for you.

Long Covid
There are many encouraging, positive success stories coming through that by applying mind-body recovery principles to Long Covid Clients, that a back to normal recovery can be made for these patients too.If this is you then do go ahead and ask about my Long Covid Mind-Body Recovery Programme

A Recap
If you are new to this work then do take the time to educate yourself around Tension Myoneural Syndrome or TMS / Neuroplastic Pain as it is known. The only thing you’ve got to lose are your symptoms and pain! When you are ready I will be here, for some people they initially reject this approach until they have unsuccessfully tried everything else.
The great news is that TMS (Tension Myoneural Syndrome) is continuing to become more and more understood and there is more and more statistical data and evidence to back it up.

A Therapeutic Approach
Typically my patients will tell me they have spent years, feeling powerless, helpless, not validated, victimised, codependent. Scapegoated, Ostrecised. Have allowed themselves to be violated in some way with no boundaries of self care or self love and have developed unheathly coping strategies of disassociating, avoiding, suppressing and repressing emotions. Let’s work on that together. It’s time to reclaim your power and shift from a state of high alert to rest and repair

Read these inspiring stories of just a handful of my past patients below:
John
Roy
Roberta
Debbie

Call me now on 07984011429 for a complementary, 10-minute assessment call to find out more. From there, if you decide to proceed, the next step is to complete an in-depth questionnaire online. This captures your life story in a potted version. It also asks you to identify aspects of your personality that may be fueling or feeding your stress Illness.