As a Psychotherapist who regularly works with chronic muscular-skeletal pain, I am accustomed to hearing questions like, “I am in pain, so why is my doctor recommending psychotherapy?” or “How is talking going to help with pain management?” Others seek therapy feeling devastated after being told by their doctor that they are going to have to “learn to live with” their pain. This often comes at the end of a long and frustrating treatment course, which may have involved physica