Rewiring Pain: The Neuroscience of Trauma, Stress, and the Power of Play
Co-Facilitated by: Camille France, OTR/L, Bennet Davis, MD, and Barbara Collier, LPC
Join us online for this transformative experience.
Is your client’s pain elusive—persistent, shifting, or resistant to treatment? Join us this June for Rewiring Pain, a groundbreaking 3-part live Zoom series that explores the intersection of neuroscience, trauma, and the transformative power of play. Designed for clinicians and healing professionals, this training reframes pain through a neurobiological lens—moving beyond tissue damage to explore how chronic pain is shaped by early adversity, stress, and emotional threat.
Led by a multidisciplinary team—Camille France, OTR/L; Bennet Davis, MD; and Barbara Collier, LPC—this experiential series dives into the latest brain science, offering evidence-based insights into central sensitization, neuroplasticity, and the role of joy and novelty in healing. Learn how play activates dopamine circuits, reduces inflammation, and supports co-regulation, offering a powerful, often overlooked, path to pain relief.
Whether you're a therapist, physician, bodyworker, or on your own healing journey, this course will equip you with somatic, trauma-informed strategies to help rewire the nervous system for safety, regulation, and lasting relief.
Pain is not just a signal—it’s a story. Let’s rewrite it together.
3-Part Live Zoom Series | June 7th, 8th, & 14th | 9:00am-10:30am PDT
90-minute sessions | Recording Included
Continuing Education Credits Available
Investment: $243
What You’ll Learn
This 3-part training will help you:
Understand pain as a protective response — not just a sign of tissue damage
Identify how early adversity, trauma, and stress shape the nervous system and pain perception
Discover how joy, novelty, and play can interrupt chronic pain cycles and support healing
Integrate science-backed, somatic strategies into your clinical or personal practice
Course Overview
Part 1: The Neuroscience of Pain – Beyond Tissue Damage
Pain as a threat response, not just a signal from injury
Central sensitization, neuroplasticity & immune shifts
The revised IASP definition and its clinical implications
Optional experiential: Reflective mapping of personal/professional pain perceptions
Part 2: Trauma, Adversity & Chronic Pain
ACEs, chronic stress, systemic trauma, and their imprint on pain
Dysregulation of the HPA axis, PTSD, and immune function
How psychosocial histories inform better pain care
Optional experiential: Journaling or group dialogue on trauma-informed assessments
Part 3: Play, Joy & Novelty as Medicine
The neurobiology of play: dopamine, vagal tone, anti-inflammation
Creative expression, relational safety, and co-regulation
Gentle ways to invite delight and agency, even in pain
Optional experiential: Practice-based strategies for inviting play into clinical care
Includes exploration of:
• Nociceptive Pain (tissue damage)
• Neuropathic Pain (nerve injury)
• Stress-related Pain (trauma, adversity, dysregulation)
Why This Series?
Chronic pain isn’t just physical. Emerging neuroscience and trauma research show how stress, early adversity, and emotional threat can shape the nervous system, heighten pain sensitivity, and fuel long-term health issues — but they can also be reversed.
Play, joy, and novelty aren’t luxuries — they’re biological tools that regulate threat physiology, shift brain networks, and support healing from the inside out.
Who It’s For
Perfect for:
Physical & occupational therapists
Physicians, mental health professionals
Somatic practitioners & bodyworkers
Anyone interested in personal healing
Earn Continuing Education Credits
Details will be provided prior to the series launch.
Meet Your Facilitators
Camille France, OTR/L – Founder of Desert Quail Therapy, known for nature-based and movement-informed healing, with advanced training in adaptive therapies and nervous system regulation.
Bennet Davis, MD – Pain specialist integrating neuroscience and somatic awareness.
Barbara Collier, LPC – Licensed therapist with deep experience in trauma healing and psychosomatic integration.
Join us to reimagine what’s possible in pain care — grounded in science, guided by story, and uplifted by joy.
This innovative series offers a whole-person lens on chronic pain, integrating neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and the healing power of play.
3-Part Live Zoom Series | June 7th, 8th, & 14th | 9:00am-10:30am PDT
90-minute sessions | Recording Included
Continuing Education Credits Available
Investment: $243
*Please inquire if you are in need of financial support to attend
*All times listed in Pacific Time