
Debug Your Pain
Most chronic pain isn’t caused by tissue damage — it’s a false alarm from your nervous system.
We teach you how to unlearn your pain.
Chronic pain is a system error — not a life sentence.
You’ve met doctors, PTs, maybe even read Dr Sarno. You've come to suspect your mind and nervous system are involved in your pain.
But you’re still stuck.
That’s where we come in. Together, we'll run structured experiments to uncover and debug the cognitive, emotional, and movement patterns causing pain.
Think this might be for you?
Fill out this 2-minute form and we'll be in touch.

How it works
Think of it like debugging code: you form a hypothesis, try something small, see how the system responds, and refine.
Our method is built around three stages:
1. Understand your pain
Most chronic pain isn’t caused by damage — it’s a false alarm from your nervous system. We help you internalize this insight, not just as an idea, but as something you feel in your body.
2. Process your patterns
We guide you to identify and shift the emotional and cognitive habits reinforcing pain — including nervous system tension, suppressed emotions, and fear-based feedback loops.
3. Learn to move freely
You’ll gently reintroduce movement in ways that feel nourishing — rebuilding confidence in your body and expanding back into the life you want to live.
Together, we'll run structured experiments to uncover and debug the cognitive, emotional, and movement patterns causing pain.
Our goal isn’t just to help you feel better — it’s to help you understand how to keep yourself well.
Sessions are $120/hr, after a free intro call. Expect 6-8 sessions to learn to debug it on your own.
Max Shen
MIT researcher and pain coach. After almost dropping out of grad school from chronic pain, Max developed a practice that fuses neuroscience, systems theory, and somatic practice. He now helps others retrain their pain with clarity and precision.

Tanner Holman
Movement coach, actor, and somatics guide. Tanner healed his own chronic back pain using awareness-based practices. His approach blends movement and nervous system re-patterning to help others return to ease.

Tell us about your pain ->
Chronic pain is a system error — not a life sentence.
You’ve met doctors, PTs, maybe even read Dr Sarno. You've come to suspect your mind and nervous system are involved in your pain.
But you’re still stuck.
That’s where we come in. Together, we'll run structured experiments to uncover and debug the cognitive, emotional, and movement patterns causing pain.
Think this might be for you?
Fill out this 2-minute form and we'll be in touch.

How it works
Think of it like debugging code: you form a hypothesis, try something small, see how the system responds, and refine.
Our method is built around three stages:
1. Understand your pain
Most chronic pain isn’t caused by damage — it’s a false alarm from your nervous system. We help you internalize this insight, not just as an idea, but as something you feel in your body.
2. Process your patterns
We guide you to identify and shift the emotional and cognitive habits reinforcing pain — including nervous system tension, suppressed emotions, and fear-based feedback loops.
3. Learn to move freely
You’ll gently reintroduce movement in ways that feel nourishing — rebuilding confidence in your body and expanding back into the life you want to live.
Together, we'll run structured experiments to uncover and debug the cognitive, emotional, and movement patterns causing pain.
Our goal isn’t just to help you feel better — it’s to help you understand how to keep yourself well.
Sessions are $120/hr, after a free intro call. Expect 6-8 sessions to learn to debug it on your own.
Max Shen
MIT researcher and pain coach. After almost dropping out of grad school from chronic pain, Max developed a practice that fuses neuroscience, systems theory, and somatic practice. He now helps others retrain their pain with clarity and precision.

Tanner Holman
Movement coach, actor, and somatics guide. Tanner healed his own chronic back pain using awareness-based practices. His approach blends movement and nervous system re-patterning to help others return to ease.

Tell us about your pain ->