Pain and long term health conditions CPD
The aim of this CPD is to provide practitioners with a sound understanding of how to work with clients suffering from long-term, chronic and complex health conditions using the Solution Focused approach. It includes additions to the initial consultation and what to say in revision during sessions.
This is a full-day CPD being split over 2 half days in order for Kim to manage her own pain and health conditions.
According to the DoH, over 15 million people in the UK struggle with long-term, chronic and complex health conditions, noting that one of the most important factors in successful management of these conditions is the patient themselves. Solution-focused hypnotherapy can empower clients to manage their conditions and re-create a life of meaning and enjoyment.
Course content
- understanding common complex health conditions, including hyper-mobility conditions and long COVID
- not your normal ‘chronic pain’ clients, and why
- understanding client symptomatology
- pain revision and the three Ps for chronic and complex condition clients
- basic pacing for you and your clients
- distraction techniques for the brain and the body
- what you can add into your I/C and revision sessions
- what we can teach clients about their brains
- positive activities/interactions with complex health conditions
- marketing/gaining new clients
Presenter
Kim Clayden
Online-Psychotherapist
Kim is a CPHT graduate specialising in Pain Management. She guest lectures on Pain Management on the HPD course and has used the solution-focused approach to manage her own and her clients' long-term, chronic and pain conditions. She is hEDS and PoTs expert patient.
You’ll find her working online from her beautiful floating therapy room as well as speaking to support groups and professionals about how the solution-focused approach can help give back control and enjoyment to chronic, long-term and pain clients.
Reviews
"Kim helped to fill in the many gaps in my knowledge about long-term health conditions by creating engaging and easy-to-understand content. Kim’s simple brain explanation drawing of the pain gate, acting as the bouncer, is embedded firmly in my brain. Golden! I now feel much more confident supporting my clients. Thank you Kim."
Gaynor A 14 March 2026
"I was looking to improve my knowledge and confidence and this CPD certainly delivered. The neuroscience element was particularly interesting, and Kim's expertise, both as a therapist and an 'expert patient' was fascinating. Discovering just how much can be done to help and support clients was a real eye opener. An excellent and highly recommended session."
Deborah L 10 March 2026
"Not only is Kim an absolutely incredible inspiration but also a fantastic teacher. This was an area I was already interested due to personal experience but on completion of her course I can now see this is 100% the direction I would like to focus on. She has given me the knowledge, confidence & passion I needed. Thank you so much Kim."
Kim W 20 October 2024
"It was a well put together course, and gave me a good grounding, for feeling more confident, working with people with pain, for long-term conditions."
Rachel D 15 October 2024
"Amazing course, learned so much. Kim is fantastic."
Gabriella D 27 September 2021
"The course was amazing! lots of information given in a clear, easy to understand way, lots of interaction and exercises to help our understanding too. Kim clearly knows and understands this situation and is able to give personal insight too, which helped me with the "wider picture" I feared some of the information would be "over my head" but Kim ensured everyone understood and and answered questions as they arose. She also gave us a lot of "tools" to use. Doing this course has increased my confidence in the use of SFH for complex health conditions. Thank you"
Lesley E 26 September 2021
"BRILLIANT! Interesting and informative teaching. Just what I needed to give me adequate tools, detailed information, capability and probably even more so, insight from both directions. Cannot wait to get put to practice."
Denise G 26 September 2021
"I found it interesting from a HCP perspective hearing from an expert patient who has trained in SFH and how utilised in practice, Useful revision. Fab networking and sharing ideas in breakout sessions. Kim facilitated the session extremely well to cover complex topics."
Tracy D 26 September 2021
"This is an incredible course and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Kim is is knowledgeable and passionate and explains everything really clearly from her experience both as a solution focused hypnotherapist and as an expert patient. She gave us a really clear understanding of how these conditions may affect daily life, and lots of ideas, teaching us how we can help people living with complex medical conditions more effectively through hypnotherapy, which I'm looking forward to putting into practice straight away. Thanks Kim!"
Melanie B 26 September 2021
Booking
This CPD is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.