Chronic pain doesn’t just hurt physically—it shapes your mood, identity, relationships, and hope for the future. Psychological treatment for chronic pain is among the most evidence-based interventions available. Oak Tree Behavioral Services helps you change your relationship with pain and reclaim your life.
Signs You May Benefit from Chronic Pain Support
Pain lasting more than three months
Depression, anxiety, or anger tied to pain
Avoidance of activities due to fear of pain
Sleep disruption from persistent discomfort
Relationship strain related to chronic illness
Reliance on opioids or medications that concern you
Our Treatment Approach
We use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT for Chronic Pain, and mindfulness-based approaches. These are proven to reduce pain-related suffering and improve function—even when the pain itself can’t be eliminated.
Trauma-informed therapy isn’t a single technique—it’s an orientation to care that recognizes how profoundly trauma shapes a person’s nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. At Oak Tree Behavioral Services, trauma-informed principles are woven into everything we do: we ask ‘what happened to you?’ before ‘what’s wrong with you?’
What We Offer
Complex PTSD and developmental trauma
Childhood abuse, neglect, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Sexual trauma and assault
Domestic violence and intimate partner violence
Medical trauma and traumatic illness
Racial and intergenerational trauma
Trauma in veterans and first responders
Secondary traumatic stress in caregivers and clinicians
How It Works
Trauma-informed therapy begins with safety and stabilization before any deep processing work. We use a phase-based model: establishing safety and building coping resources, processing traumatic material at a pace the nervous system can tolerate, and integration of new meaning and identity. Modalities include EMDR, trauma-focused CBT, somatic awareness, and narrative approaches.
Who This Is For
Anyone with a history of trauma—whether single-incident or complex/developmental—can benefit from trauma-informed care. We work with adults, teens, and children, and take special care with clients who have experienced re-traumatization in previous therapeutic relationships.
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy go deeper than symptoms—they explore the unconscious patterns, early relationships, and hidden motivations that shape how you experience yourself and the world. If you’ve addressed surface symptoms but still feel something is unresolved at a deeper level, psychodynamic work may be the piece you’ve been missing.
What We Offer
Chronic depression or emptiness with unclear cause
Recurring relationship patterns that confuse or frustrate you
Identity struggles and a fragmented sense of self
Anxiety rooted in unconscious conflict
Personality patterns affecting relationships and work
Trauma with complex interpersonal roots
A desire to understand yourself more deeply
Feeling ‘stuck’ despite previous treatment
How It Works
Psychodynamic therapy is exploratory and open-ended. Sessions focus on your free associations, dreams, relationship patterns, and the therapeutic relationship itself as a window into your inner life. The pace is slower and the goals are deeper than symptom relief—we’re working to understand the structure of your psychology.
Who This Is For
Psychodynamic therapy is best suited for individuals who are psychologically minded, motivated to explore, and interested in understanding themselves rather than just managing symptoms. It’s often used alongside or after more structured approaches.
Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, is built on a radical idea: that given the right conditions, people naturally move toward growth and healing. Rather than directing or diagnosing, the therapist provides unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuine presence—creating the relational conditions in which people find their own answers.
What We Offer
Self-exploration and personal growth
Identity and self-concept work
Life transitions and finding meaning
Depression and emotional emptiness
Anxiety rooted in self-judgment or perfectionism
Relationship patterns and attachment
Low self-worth and chronic self-criticism
Grief and loss
How It Works
Person-centered therapy is less structured than CBT or DBT—the client leads, and the therapist follows. Sessions are shaped by what you bring. The therapeutic relationship itself is the primary instrument of change. This approach is often integrated with other modalities rather than used in isolation.
Who This Is For
Person-centered therapy is well-suited for individuals seeking self-understanding, meaning-making, or personal growth—as well as those who have felt judged, pathologized, or unheard in previous therapeutic relationships. It works across the lifespan.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a gold-standard trauma treatment recognized by the American Psychological Association, the VA, and the World Health Organization. It helps the brain finish processing traumatic memories that got ‘stuck’—so they stop intruding on your present life. EMDR doesn’t require you to talk through your trauma in detail, making it accessible for people who have struggled with traditional talk therapy.
What We Offer
PTSD from combat, assault, accidents, or childhood trauma
Complex PTSD and developmental trauma
Phobias and performance anxiety
Grief and complicated loss
Disturbing memories that won’t go away
Panic disorder with identifiable triggers
Negative core beliefs rooted in past experience
Military sexual trauma (MST)
How It Works
EMDR follows a structured eight-phase protocol. After thorough preparation and stabilization, we identify target memories and process them using bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements or tapping). Clients often describe a natural desensitization—the memory remains, but its emotional charge diminishes significantly. Most EMDR treatment for a single trauma occurs within 6–12 sessions.
Who This Is For
EMDR is appropriate for adults and adolescents with trauma histories. It is particularly valuable for people who have already tried talk therapy and felt limited by it, or for those who find it difficult to verbalize their trauma experience.
