"New Possibilities for Emotional and Physical Pain" with guest Dr. Alan Weisser Humanity meets Business: Business Therapy

Dr. Alan Weisser, JD, PhD, and his group at New Options, Inc., a pain management practice, has an extensive background in working with the psychological problems people face when they are living with complex and chronic pain problems. Working at New Options, Inc., he has participated in multi-disciplinary teams that has forged successful collaborations between patients, claim managers, medical practices and agencies including The University of Washington Rehabilitation Department, Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians, Labor and Industries, other physicians, rehabilitation specialists and community resources . He has presented on New Options approach to care to physicians at the University of Washington, Labor and Industries, the National Society of Spine Surgeons, the Trial Lawyers Association, and numerous medical and rehabilitation practices. By focusing on collaborative and realistic goals, and practices, within a coherent clinical model, his practice has provided support that empowered chronic pain patients to transition from dysfunction and disability to empowerment and recovery. He looks forward to sharing concepts and techniques for working with people suffering from chronic pain and medical conditions. Dr. Weisser is uniquely qualified to lead others in experiences of self-discovery. When he was 12 years old, he broke his neck in a diving accident at a local swimming pool. Though he nearly died, he developed an unshakable belief that he could and would recover. During this two-year recovery, he came to understand that it was not just physical pain that affected him. The injury had caused a high level of emotional suffering and self-confidence was severely shaken. His former approach to life, based on taking risk and challenging himself, seemed entirely out of reach. In reaction to this, he engaged in many growth-related activities including becoming a trial lawyer and taking up martial arts, which eventually led to an emerging need for a more profound change in his life. Back in New York City with his life reimagined, he began his pursuit of a degree in clinical psychology. His studies led to working with the chronically mentally ill in a state mental hospital for many years. This work deepened his understanding that treating any kind of human pain required understanding and treating a person’s whole life. To do that you need to learn what is meaningful and inspiring to them. A move to Seattle in the late 1990’s led Dr. Weisser to applying his evolved awareness, skills and knowledge in dealing with chronic mental, emotional, and physical suffering. In 2002 he founded New Options in Seattle where he has become a highly respected clinician working with patients who suffer with chronic physical and emotional pain. He has developed a systematic way to help them discover their potential and their abilities, and master chronic conditions. He published his book "New Possibilities, Unravelling the Mystery and Mastering Chronic Pain".


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