When your patient needs more than you can provide… What’s your next move?
Join us for a fireside-chat–style clinical roundtable about why good clinicians still struggle with complex pain and what we can do about it.
Specifically for allied-health professionals who want practical, emotionally informed tools to manage complex pain with structure, calm, and confidence.
If you’ve ever left a session thinking, “What did I miss?” This conversation is for you.
Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Time: 5.30pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Live (Recording available)
Hosted by The Chronic Pain Method – evidence-based training for allied-health clinicians.
Join the Live Roundtable – Free for Registered Clinicians
When even great clinicians feel stuck
You’ve done everything right, yet some patients’ pain keeps returning, leaving you second-guessing your skill and your confidence is feeling a bit bruised.
You want better outcomes, but working alone means there’s no one to talk shop with and the isolation is starting to weigh on you.
When patients drop off or referrals stall, it’s not failure, most clinicians were never taught to manage the emotional and behavioural side of pain.
Your hands on skills are amazing, but you are not sure how to communicate in an emotionally informed way.
And you’re not alone in feeling that gap.
What you’ll learn in this Rountable
Understand why complex pain challenges even the best clinicians and why traditional training often skips the emotional and behavioural nuances that make chronic pain care so different.
Use language that works in emotionally charged sessions, clear phrasing to calm tension, maintain trust, and guide frustrated patients.
Stay composed and effective when sessions become emotional tools to manage your own reactions, stay objective, and support your patient without absorbing distress.
Download The Two Gaps Framework a practical model connecting clinical reasoning with confident communication to bring structure and direction to complex consults.
Meet the Panel
Not a lecture, a roundtable of real practitioners, educators, and lived-experience voices who work within an interdisciplinary model where communication and reflection sit at the centre of every case.
Faraz Majlessi
APA Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist & Clinical Educator
Faraz is an APA Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and clinical educator who completed his Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy in 2021.
As one of the first clinicians to work with patients during the development of The Chronic Pain Method, Faraz played a pivotal role in shaping the program’s structure and training content.
He now leads education and supervision within CPM, guiding clinicians to integrate psychologically informed principles and clear communication frameworks into everyday practice.
Dr Trevor Crowe
Psychologist, Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor
Dr Trevor Crowe is a Registered Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Certified Addictions Counsellor with over 35 years’ clinical experience.
His integrative approach draws on modalities including CBT, ACT, DBT, Gestalt, and Mindfulness-based practice.
Trevor’s clinical and academic work has focused on relational approaches to trauma recovery and the therapeutic alliance, helping clinicians, patients, and teams communicate more effectively when pain and emotion intersect.
A former Senior Lecturer and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Wollongong, Trevor now lives and practises in the Huon Valley, Tasmania, continuing to mentor clinicians nationwide.
Amie Rule
Author, Chronic Pain Advocate & Coach
Amie is a chronic pain advocate who works with people living with long-term pain and autoimmune conditions.
After two decades navigating her own health challenges, Amie recognised the systemic barriers that prevent people from truly healing.
Her studies in childhood trauma, loss, grief, and the energetic body, combined with insights from psychology and psychotherapy, have shaped her whole-person perspective on recovery.
Amie helps individuals move from feeling powerless to self-advocating with confidence, and brings that lived experience to the discussion on how clinicians can better understand and support emotional readiness in pain care.
Facilitated by Janet Gavrily
Founder, The Chronic Pain Method
A business-development strategist with 20 years in allied health, Janet built The Chronic Pain Method to solve the systemic gaps that leave clinicians unsupported and patients misunderstood.
Together, they’ll unpack the communication breakdowns that cause chronic pain care to come unstuck and how to fix them.
Why You Should Attend
- Integrates recent national recommendations calling for psychologically informed care and interdisciplinary practice.
- Part of The Chronic Pain Method’s Five-Pillar Framework for evidence-based, team-oriented practice.
- Built by clinicians, for clinicians: practical, not theoretical.
- 100% educational: no sales pitch; tools you can use tomorrow.
- Ask questions – at the end of the chat, there will be the opportunity to ask questions
Over 300 clinicians across Australia and NZ have joined previous CPM roundtables
What you’ll walk away with
- Expert Roundtable: honest discussion – no slides, no scripts.
- Evidence-Based Framework: grounded in research and practice.
- Immediate Tools: The Two Gaps Framework, conversation prompts, reflection questions.
- CPD-Relevant: practical, free professional development with real clinical value.
- Clarity: understand what’s missing in chronic pain care and how to address it.
- Confidence: know what to say when complex cases become emotional.
- Connection: join a network of like-minded clinicians who get this work.
- Growth: position yourself as the go-to clinician for complex pain – no extra qualification required.
A moment every clinician knows
A patient who’s made real progress comes in and says, “The pain’s back.”
Your heart sinks – you doubt your skill because you know this shouldn’t be happening
You say, “Let’s book again next week” but part of you wonders if they’ll come back.
You’re not alone. This happens in clinics every day, not because clinicians are incompetent, but because most have never worked within a system that supports both them and their patients through the ups and downs of pain management.
This roundtable is where we discuss how to change that.
You’ll leave knowing exactly how to respond next time, with language that keeps your patient engaged and your reputation intact.
Limited Access
To keep the conversation interactive, live attendance is capped at 100 clinicians.
All registrants will receive the recording,
but only live attendees can join the discussion and ask questions directly.
Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Time: 5.30pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Live (Recording available)
No prep required, registration takes 60 seconds.
EXCLUSIVE BONUS:
The Reflective Practice Tool: The Two Gaps Framework
A practical tool to strengthen your clinical reasoning and communication skills.
Every attendee receives a downloadable tool designed for immediate use in your clinic.
The Reflective Practice Tool: The Two Gaps Framework helps you quickly pinpoint what’s missing when a session feels stuck giving you structure, direction, and confidence under pressure.
It focuses on the two areas that make the biggest difference in complex pain care:
Clinical Reasoning (knowing what to ask yourself and why) and Clinical Communication (knowing what to say and how).
1. Clinical Skill – Sharpening Your Reasoning
Use this quick checklist to challenge your own thinking.
It guides you through targeted subjective and objective questioning to refine your clinical reasoning, uncover what’s missing, and direct your next step with more certainty.
Perfect for quick self-reflection after a session or as a peer review discussion tool to strengthen shared decision-making.
Benefit: Less second-guessing, faster clarity, and stronger case direction.
2. Clinical Confidence – Communication in the Moment
A language and communication tool for those moments when sessions become emotionally charged.
It provides clear, practical phrases and conversation techniques to help you validate your patient’s experience, maintain composure, and guide the discussion with confidence and calm.
Benefit: Protects your confidence, keeps patients engaged, and helps conversations end with direction not doubt.
Join the Live Roundtable
Free for Registered Clinicians
Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 5.30pm AEDT
Location: Zoom Live (Recording available)
All registered participants will receive a recording of the session.
You will be sent the Zoom link via email before the start date.