Your brain learned to feel this pain. It can learn something different.
Chronic pain is exhausting. Finding help shouldn't be. Eric offers three core services, each built around the same idea: that your body has the capacity to heal, and the right approach can help you get there.
About Eric
Eric Stokell didn't come to this work through a textbook. He came through two decades of chronic pain that doctors couldn't fix, therapies that didn't hold, and a slow, hard-won discovery that the answers he was looking for weren't structural. They were neurological, emotional, and deeply human.
By the time he found Pain Reprocessing Therapy, he had tried nearly everything: physical therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, craniosacral work, yoga, qigong, and at his lowest point, a trip to the emergency room. Nothing lasted. It wasn't until he started working with the mind-body connection directly that things began to change. Not just his pain, but his entire understanding of what pain is and where it comes from.
That personal history is what makes Eric different. He knows what it feels like to be told your imaging looks fine while you can barely turn your head. He knows the particular despair of trying everything and getting nowhere. And he knows, from his own body, that recovery is possible even when it doesn't feel that way.
Eric studied comparative world religions and indigenous healing traditions at UC Santa Barbara and has spent years in close collaboration with local Native American elders and healers. He is a certified Pain Reprocessing Therapy practitioner and brings a range of somatic and mind-body modalities into his work depending on what each client needs. He doesn't see himself as someone who heals people. He sees himself as someone who helps people find their way back to their own capacity to heal.
His practice is rooted in that belief, and so is every session.