Chronic Pain • Nervous System • Neuroscience

Chronic pain resolution grounded in neuroscience.

I will guide you through your chronic pain journey toward a healthy, pain-free life — using neuroscience-based tools so your body can finally start healing.

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You’ve been to the doctors. You’ve had the scans, the referrals, the treatments. You’ve tried everything you were told to try — and nothing has worked. Not really. Maybe you’ve started to lose hope. Maybe you’ve started to wonder if this is what your life will be like forever.

It doesn’t have to be.

What I help with

I help you understand where your chronic pain comes from and teach you tools that will stay with you for life — tools that allow your body to heal and get out of pain. For good.

But the effects go beyond pain:

Sleep
Fatigue
Immune issues
Anxiety

Why does pain persist?

Your pain is real. Every bit of it. Pain is produced by your nervous system as a signal to protect you — and it always has a reason.

Blocked healing

Sometimes your body is struggling to heal. Inflammation stays elevated, tissues don’t recover, and the natural repair processes get blocked. Working with the nervous system can unblock them.

Neuroplastic pain

Sometimes the pain itself is neuroplastic — your nervous system has learned to produce pain even after the original cause has resolved. It’s stuck in fight, flight, or freeze — and hasn’t received the signals it needs to stand down.

This is not a malfunction. And it is not in your head. Whichever of the two it is — blocked healing or a nervous system stuck in survival mode — the path forward is the same: working with your nervous system is the key.

When your nervous system shifts out of defence mode, your body can begin to do what it was always designed to do — heal.

98%

of chronic pain patients improved with a nervous system-based approach. Two-thirds became pain-free or nearly pain-free — and the results held a year later.

University of Colorado Boulder — NIH-funded, randomized controlled trial

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Joanna Dysiewicz

I know pain all too well. I have lived it.

I have lived with chronic pain all my life. Once I managed to get rid of one diagnosis, a new thing would appear. I went through a health coaching certification to help myself. I educated myself on healthy diet and the power of exercise. I kept pushing through.

Until in 2021, I broke my back — and nothing I knew helped me. I developed sciatic nerve pain.

I went through the traditional route — doctors, painkillers, antidepressants, physical therapy. But the pain only got bigger.

I had laser surgery. It got worse. I had spinal surgery. It didn’t help. I had another surgery. This time, the sciatic nerve pain went away — but the back pain was debilitating.

Surgery was necessary, but it didn’t resolve the pain. The nervous system work did. It also resolved the anxiety, the fatigue, and the health issues I had carried since childhood — things no doctor, no scan, and no procedure had ever been able to explain or fix.

Today I guide others through the same process that gave me my life back.

How it works

1

Understand

We map what is driving your pain — your history, your patterns, your nervous system.

2

Settle

We calm the defence response and give your nervous system consistent signals of safety.

3

Rebuild & Return

We work with the pain patterns and gradually expand what you can do — returning to life.

You don’t need to arrive with answers — that’s what the first stage is for. Many people feel a difference during the settling phase alone. You walk away with tools you own for life. I guide you through all of it. You don’t need to become an expert in neuroscience — that’s what I’m here for.

Training & credentials

I have trained and certified with world-leading experts in trauma and chronic pain:

NICABM — Chronic Pain Program (Howard Schubiner, MD) NICABM — Treating Trauma Master Series Chronic Pain Specialist Certification IIN Health Coach Certification

Start with a conversation.

30 minutes. Video call. Free. No pressure, no pitch. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll tell you.

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1:1 Sessions

Private sessions tailored to you. Weekly or biweekly.

Group Program

Small group. Guided sessions. You’re not alone in this.

Both start with the same free call.

Questions

No. This is nervous system education and practice. I don’t diagnose or prescribe. If clinical support would serve you better, I’ll say so.
Yes. Even when there is a structural component, your nervous system plays a central role in how much pain you experience. Working with it unlocks your body’s natural healing — which means less pain, better recovery, and often resolution of symptoms that nothing else has been able to touch. A free call is a good place to explore your situation.
It depends on how long your body has been in this state. Some people feel a shift within weeks. Sometimes it takes longer — and that is completely okay. This is not a race, and it is not a competition. I know you are desperate to get out of the pain — I know that better than anyone. And you will.
No. This complements medical care. I’ll never ask you to stop treatment.

If you’re reading this at 2am

because the pain won’t let you sleep —

I’ve been there.

There is a way through.

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Or just say hello.

I read every message.

coaching@joannadysiewicz.com  •  @joannas_brain