A multidisciplinary interventional pain medicine centre to serve Abbotsford and the Fraser Valley.
Update May 15, 2025
New Virtual Group Classes Offered! No cost to participate
1. Diet and Nutrition for Pain Management
If persistent pain is affecting your ability to live the life you want, I encourage you to join us for our next Nutrition for Pain Management class, taught by Registered Dietitian, Thi Bui.
This single-session workshop is designed to help you understand how nutrition can play a key role in managing and reducing pain. Thi will guide you through practical nutrition strategies that target pain relief and support overall well-being.
This free online class equips attendees with tools to address ongoing pain and improve quality of life. Research shows improved nutrition has lasting benefits, including reduced pain intensity, better sleep, lower stress, and more.
2. Counselling for Pain Management
Presented by Christina Boonzaayer, Registered Clinical Counsellor
Chronic pain can create emotional distress and psychological turmoil. It impacts our thought processes and can create a fixation on negative experiences and all of the ways our lives have changed. When our mood is low and anxiety increases it can also increase the severity of our experiences of pain.
Counselling can support you in learning how to accept and cope with your chronic pain. Making behavioural changes and altering your thought processes can lead to a reduction in the intensity of pain experienced. Counselling can also support in increasing your quantity and quality of sleep. Lastly, creating a healthier mind will support you in reclaiming control and improving your quality of life.
Please inquire with the clinic if you have further questions.
If you have participated in the Empowered Relief™ workshop and would like to learn more on the neuroscience behind pain, please join us for “Making Sense of Pain” a 2-hour virtual session that offers modern pain neuroscience education and self care skills all in one class. In this session, you will learn about pain types and the neuroscience behind how we experience pain, the Biopsychosocial Model of pain care, and various nervous system calming techniques.
Pre-requisite: Empowered Relief™
Cost: None
For more information, or to register, please contact us at info@initiumcpm.com or call our clinic and speak to one of our staff.
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We are happy to announce that the Empowered Relief™ workshop is now available free of charge to our patients.
Empowered Relief™ is a 2 hour, evidence-based, single-session workshop developed by pain psychologists at Stanford University and taught exclusively by certified instructors. This live, virtual class rapidly equips attendees with pain management skills to address ongoing pain that interferes with quality of life. Research shows that attendees experience lasting benefits from Empowered Relief™, including reduced pain intensity, better sleep, lower stress, and more.
If you have been referred to one of our pain specialists, Empowered Relief™ is an excellent tool to help you self-manage pain before your appointment date.
For more information, or to register, please contact us at info@initiumcpm.com or call our clinic and speak to one of our staff.
