Rachel Zoffness
Rachel Zoffness PhD, is a pain psychologist, medical consultant, educator, and author specializing in chronic pain and medical illness. Dr. Zoffness is an assistant clinical professor at UCSF Medical School, where she teaches pain neuroscience education to medical residents and interns. She serves on the Steering Committee of the American Association of Pain Psychology (AAPP) and founded AAPP’s Pediatric Division. In her private practice, she provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and other evidence-based therapies to teens and adults, provides lectures and trainings, and serves as a consultant to hospitals and health professionals. Dr. Zoffness was trained at Brown, Columbia, University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, the NYU Child Study Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, and the Mindful Center. She taught psychology courses at SDSU, supervised therapists-in-training at the Wright Institute’s CBT Clinic, and has published extensively on evidence-based therapies. She collaborates with UCSF's Pediatric Brain Center and Pain and Palliative Care Clinic; Stanford’s Pediatric Pain Management Clinic; and the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; and consults on the development of international pain programs.
4 Books Written
The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens: CBT and Mindfulness-Based Practices to Turn the Volume Down on Pain
by Rachel Zoffness
Rating: 4.4 ⭐
In this powerful workbook for teens, pediatric pain specialist Rachel Zoffness offers evidence-based strategies to help you turn the volume down on chronic pain and illness and get back to living your life. Living with chronic pain and illness can be difficult, scary, and sometimes lonely. But if you’re one of the millions of teens who suffer from chronic pain, you should know that there are real
The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life
by Rachel Zoffness
Rating: 4.1 ⭐
Change your brain, change your pain with this powerful, evidence-based workbook. If you’re struggling with chronic pain, you’re not more than one hundred million Americans currently live with chronic pain. Yet, despite its prevalence, chronic pain is not well understood. Fortunately, research has emerged showing the effectiveness of a treatment model for pain management grounded in b
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The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life [16pt Large Print Edition]
by Rachel Zoffness
Change your brain, change your pain-that's the empowering message interwoven in this evidence-based workbook by pain expert Rachel Zoffness. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and neuroscience, this important workbook offer readers proven-effective pain management techniques, so they can break the pain cycle and live with greater joy and fulf
Tell Me Where It Hurts: The Science of Pain and How to Heal
by Rachel Zoffness
Leading expert Rachel Zoffness bridges the gap between medicine and psychology to get to the heart of treating painEvery one of us will experience pain, be it back pain, the pain of childbirth, or living in an ageing body. Not a single one of us will escape. But what if everything you thought you knew about pain was wrong?We’ve been told that pain is purely physical,