Online Chronic Pain therapists in Valley Center, California CA
We are proud to feature top rated online Chronic Pain therapists in Valley Center. We encourage you to review each profile to find your best match.
Holly Hoffman, PsyD, Psychotherapy
Psychologist, Licensed Clinical Psychologist in CA & NY
I am trained through a Health Psychology focused lens and am passionate about the mind body connection. I have worked as a Behavioral Medicine Consultant in primary care and have supported many clients with illness to live rich and meaningful lives. I am particularly passionate about helping people with issues such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders. I currently offer a Better Living with Illness group where in 6 weeks you will be able to get support from other group members as well as learn tools and skills to live more in line with your values. The protocol for this group is an evidence-based protocol using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
13 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Elaine Skoulas
Marriage and Family Therapist, M.A., LMFT
Living with chronic pain or illness can be exhausting, especially when symptoms are invisible, misunderstood, or difficult to explain. Many people feel caught between medical answers that do not fully help and a body that continues to signal distress. I specialize in working with chronic pain and mind-body symptoms using Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) and nervous system-based approaches. Our work together explores how stress, trauma, and protective patterns in the nervous system can influence physical symptoms while honoring the real complexity of living with pain or illness.
8 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Lois Lorback
Hypnotherapist, CCHt
I will help you shift your attention away from the pain. A medical referral may be required.
12 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
PSYCHe, PLLC
Psychologist, PhD, DBT-LBC™, LPC, PsyD, MSW, Marriage and Family Counselor, LCSW
We have a clinician who specializes in chronic pain.
12 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Louise Perry
Registered Psychotherapist, IFS UKCP HCCP BAAT
I work with adults living with chronic pain or long-term health conditions and the ways these experiences can shape identity, mood, relationships, and daily life. Chronic pain often brings layers of loss, frustration, and adaptation, alongside the ongoing effort of managing physical symptoms.
My work draws on Integrative Art Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), offering ways to explore the emotional and psychological impact of chronic illness without reducing it to mindset or positivity. The focus is on understanding how pain is lived with, responded to, and organised around internally, rather than trying to eliminate it. Sessions are shaped around energy levels and may involve conversation, creative exploration, or a combination of both.
8 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Theo Kuczek
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, MFT #123769, CPT
As someone who suffers from chronic illness, I know, first hand, how isolating and difficult life can be because of it. Finding the words to communicate your experience and feeling like someone understands your experience is necessary to cope with chronic illness and pain.
15 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Three Oaks Behavioral Health & Wellness
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LCMHC, LCAS
Helping clients cope with the emotional and psychological impact of ongoing health conditions.
7 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Dr. Cristal Lopez
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Welcome! You might be feeling disconnected from your family, friends, children, job, or even the world. I'm Dr. Cristal Lopez, and I believe that we all have powerful strengths. Together, we will explore yours to help you unlock your full potential, connect authentically with others, and show up as your true self. My training at top U.S. children's hospitals, including Children's Hospital Los Angeles, California Pacific Medical Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has provided me with over 6 years of experience working with children, adolescents, young and mid-life adults, and families.
For my younger clients, I use behavioral and play therapy techniques, while also supporting parents and families to foster healthy connections. With adolescents and adults, I draw on strength-based, humanistic, and relational principles to guide our work together.
Beyond traditional mental health concerns, I specialize and publish work in: coping with chronic illnesses, career-related issues (burnout, work-life balance), trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and stress related to first-responder families. I’m committed to guiding you, your child, or family to a more connected and fulfilling life. Invest in yourself!
9 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Viktoria Walda Byczkiewicz, Ph.D.
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD
Chronic pain or illness leaves us feeling drained and devoid of energy. Being sick and tired works on the mind and body like a downward spiral from which it feels like there is no escape. You can learn to co-exist with pain and illness; to keep on living life even with compromises, and to manage the pain psychologically, with ease. It is possible to begin enjoying activities that you used to, again. It is possible to keep on going!
10 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Fuller Life Concepts
Marriage and Family Therapist
Chronic pain doesn't have to control your life. Using CBT and mindfulness-based approaches, we help you change your relationship with pain. You'll learn evidence-based techniques to reduce pain intensity, manage the emotional impact of living with pain, improve daily functioning and sleep, and develop healthy coping strategies. While we can't promise pain will disappear, we can help you reclaim your life from it.
15 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Diaspora Therapy Group
Marriage and Family Therapist, DSW, LMFT
We provide supportive care for individuals living with chronic pain or chronic illness, recognizing the deep connection between physical health, mental health, and identity. We help clients cope with grief, stress, medical trauma, and changes in functioning using compassion-focused and mind-body approaches. Our work centers validation, resilience, and quality of life.
7 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
John Fry
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I used to be on the board of directors for The National Fibromyalgia Association.
49 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Alejandra Kenia Ipina
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Chronic stress may show up in the body as chronic pain, illness, digestive issues, etc. Together we view your symptoms as a doorway to your subconscious mind. Using somatic therapy and meditation we explore your emotional needs.
9 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Dr. Rebecca Scott, Psy.D
Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Certified in Holistic Health
From my work in primary care and hospitals, I have supported many patients with chronic pain or illness and have a subspecialty in rehab psychology.
17 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Melanie Goetz
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
I wonder if you notice any difference in your body right now, at this very moment. Can you sit with it a second longer? Perhaps, there is a small part of your body that is not feeling as strained, knotted, tingly, throbbing, or numb as it was before you made this decision to read therapist's profiles?
Through an attachment somatic therapy approach, we'll pendulate from identifying and enjoying these small to large wonderful exhales of relief from pain with intentional befriending and curiosity towards pain in a welcoming of all parts of you to be recognized, heard, and validated in a journey towards the freedom to live an engaged life of presence with yourself, your dreams, your responsibilities, and your relationships.
10 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Mia Turner
Therapist, MA, RYT, ASDCS, LMFT, NPT-C, CMNCS, CMIP
Living with chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, EDS, dysautonomia, Long COVID, autoimmune conditions, and other complex health challenges often requires carrying far more than symptoms alone. It can involve grief, uncertainty, medical trauma, identity shifts, fluctuating capacity, inaccessible systems, financial strain, changing relationships, and the ongoing labor of adapting to a body whose needs may change from one day to the next.
My work recognizes that living with chronic illness is not simply a medical experience. It is also a nervous system experience, an emotional experience, a relational experience, and often a deeply existential one. Together, we create space for the realities of grief, relief, adaptation, advocacy, relationship, resilience, choice, and survival while exploring ways to reconnect with your body that are rooted in compassion rather than conflict and pushing through.
Drawing from both clinical expertise and lived experience navigating complex chronic health conditions, I understand how easy it can be to internalize narratives that equate worth with productivity, independence, consistency, or achievement. Our work centers honoring your body's wisdom, challenging internalized narratives, cultivating self-trust, and building a life that supports your wellbeing rather than requiring you to constantly override your needs.
10 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Growth and Change Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Everybody wants to be satisfied and fulfilled in their life and when you find yourself in a situation where you are living in chronic pain or illness, its really hard to figure out how to move forward in any meaningful way in your life. Whatever it is you are dealing we can come alongside you to support you in navigating the health and pain challenges you are experiencing.
8 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Heidi Hartston
Psychologist, PhD
Life can change dramatically and suddenly from an injury or chronic illness. Your pain might be invisible to others who don't understand what you're going through or why your participation in activities has changed. Some days it takes heroic courage and determination just to do ordinary things. Working with an experienced therapist can be a game changer in finding ways to reclaim as much or your life as possible. Some suffering and loss is unavoidable. But there are strategies that minimize pain and reduce the secondary consequences that shrink your life. I combine insightful, caring depth work with evidence based techniques that are most effective in freeing you from unnecessary suffering and helping you get back to the happy, interactive activities that are meaningful to you.
35 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Danielle Greenspan, LMFT, LPCC
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT 104395, LPCC 4889
As someone who experiences chronic pain and chronic illness, I am able to bring my authentic self into my work with clients who experience chronic pain and/or chronic illness and can meet them where they are at in their acceptance and healing journey.
11 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA
Judith Nitchie
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT36770
Chronic illness or pain can be an emotional rollercoaster at times. I know! I've been there! We will work together to help you find your way back to managing your life with your unique challenges, gifts, and goals.
32 Years Experience
Online in Valley Center, CA (Online Only)
Chronic Pain therapists in Valley Center, California Statistics
Chronic Pain therapists in Valley Center, California average 15 years of experience and charge around $208 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Chronic Pain or Illness (100%), Anxiety or Fears (92%), and Trauma and PTSD (77%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$208
Gender ID
| 73% |
Female |
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| 21% |
Male |
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| 4% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 54% |
In Person and Online |
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| 46% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Chronic Pain or Illness |
| 92% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 77% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 77% | Depression |
| 66% | Stress |
| 62% | Loss or Grief |
| 50% | Self Esteem |