If you are living with chronic pain, you have probably tried a great many things. You have seen specialists. You have followed advice. You have worked hard to manage, adapt and keep going - often while carrying the invisible weight of it alone.

You may have searched desperately for anything that will help. You may have been told there is nothing more that can be done. Or that you simply need to learn to cope. Or that the pain is in some way your fault - in your head, a result of stress.

None of that is helpful.

What is true is that chronic pain is one of the most complex and least well-understood experiences a person can navigate - and that the conventional medical model, on its own, is often not enough.

This work offers something different.

Pain and suffering are not the same thing

This is one of the most important distinctions in working with chronic pain - and one that is rarely understood from direct experience, or made clear.

The pain itself may not change. For many people living with long-term conditions, the physical sensation is a reality they must live with (as I do). But the way in which we respond to that pain, and the suffering that surrounds it - the fear, the resistance, the grief, the constant bracing against what the body is doing - that is not fixed. That can shift.

Through mindfulness, somatic awareness and nervous system work, it is possible to change the way the mind and body relate to pain. Not by denying it or pushing through it, but by learning to meet it differently - with less reactivity, more steadiness.

“My pain hasn't changed - but how I respond to it has. With Olivia's guidance I am transforming my relationship with pain in ways that have enriched my life.” — Jack, USA

Why this work is different

Most pain management approaches focus on reducing sensation - medication, physical therapy, surgeries, pain clinics. These have their place, and this work does not replace medical care.

But chronic pain is never only physical. It reshapes identity, disrupts sleep, affects relationships, generates anxiety and grief. A constant background hum of stress that others rarely understand - keeping the nervous system in a state of high alert - which in turn amplifies the pain itself.

This work addresses the whole of that experience. We work with the nervous system directly - learning to move it out of chronic activation and towards greater regulation. We work with deeply shifting your perspective of pain, and how you hold it in the body. We work with the emotional landscape of pain - the loss, the frustration, the loneliness, the fear of the future. And we work with awareness itself - developing the capacity to be present with sensation without being overwhelmed by it.

The approach draws on direct lived experience, mindfulness and awareness practices, somatic body-based work, nervous system regulation and trauma-informed principles - alongside over two decades of Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice, which offers one of the most sophisticated frameworks for working with pain and the mind that exists anywhere in the world.

I know this from the inside

In 2015, an accident on set left me in a coma for three weeks. When I came back, I was living with severe neurological damage, musculo-skeletal damage and chronic pain that will never go away.

I have lived with ongoing, severe chronic pain every day, every moment since. I know the relentlessness of it. The way it erodes confidence and identity. The exhaustion of trying to quietly manage it while trying to maintain a life. The grief of what it has taken. And the loneliness of it, when no-one else understands how it feels.

And I know what it is to find - within that, not despite it - something deeper and steadier than the suffering.

That is not a promise that the pain will go. It is something more honest and, I think, more useful: the possibility of living well, with genuine moments of ease and inner peace, even when the pain is present.

Who this work is for

This support is for people living with any form of chronic or long-term pain - including:

• Fibromyalgia and widespread chronic pain

• Neurological pain and nerve damage

• Chronic back, neck or joint pain

• Rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune conditions

• Long-term injury - including complex or unresolved cases

• Unexplained pain that medicine has not been able to adequately address

• Post-surgical or post-accident pain

It is particularly well-suited to those who have already tried conventional routes and are looking for something that works at a deeper level - with the psychological, emotional and nervous system dimensions that medical treatment alone rarely reaches.

You do not need any experience with mindfulness or meditation. You need only an openness to exploring a different way of relating to your experience.

What working together looks like

Sessions are private, one-to-one and conducted online. Each session is tailored entirely to you - your body, your history, your current experience of pain. There is no fixed programme or predetermined structure. We gradually work through different aspects that impact your pain and your life, and shift your experience of it.

We work at a pace that is genuinely supportive - never pushing into overwhelm, always building the kind of safety and trust that allows real change to happen. For many people living with chronic pain, the body has become a source of threat rather than home. A central part of this work is gently, carefully reversing that.

For those ready for a deeper and more sustained engagement, I work with clients over three months in a private mentorship format - regular sessions, personalised practices to integrate between sessions, and ongoing personal support as the work unfolds.

I work with clients across the UK, USA and internationally, all online.

If you are ready to explore this

If something in what you have read feels relevant to where you are, I invite you to get in touch.

I offer a short initial conversation - free of charge - to explore whether this work feels like the right fit. There is no obligation, and I will always be honest with you about whether I believe I can help.

Looking for community support alongside your one-to-one work? You are also welcome to join the Inner Alchemy Meditation Community