Sean Hershey LCSW Gay Therapist NYC Chronic Pain Therapist

Together, We Can Heal Your Chronic Pain

Offering weekly individual psychotherapy

Gay Therapist NYC | Chronic Pain Therapist

Imagine your life without your pain


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Learn how to use psychological and emotional modalities to heal from chronic pain.

From Listeners…

July 2025: Accepting New Individual Therapy Clients

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I know, you’ve been in pain for years.

Now, after countless let-downs with medical treatments, you’ve finally found mind-body medicine.

You know this is the answer.

But …you worry …is it?

Because it hasn’t fully worked yet. On some level, you fear it may never fully work. You fear you’re the exception. You fear you’re stuck. You fear maybe you’re incurable. You fear maybe it’s impossible to truly end the pain.

You’ve read the TMS books. And the neuroplastic pain books. You’ve journaled. You feel negative emotions all the time. You’re pretty deep in this stuff. You’ve heard the success stories and they all sound so confident. They’re all doing so well. They don’t sound like you.

What’s wrong with you?

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It’s okay. Mind-body healing is hard.

It requires a mindset shift so profound that some call it a rebirth.

As you know, it’s deeper than the pain and the symptoms. It’s your very core self.

You’ve put your precious life’s energy into stress, demands, people-pleasing, fitting in, proving yourself, trying to be perfect, trying so hard - and, instead, you’re utterly exhausted and overwhelmed. Your nervous system’s spent.

You’ve lost yourself.

But that’s not the real you.

We need to find you.

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Your body’s calling you home.

Together, we’ll learn to speak its language. We’ll listen. With guidance, you’ll understand.

And mind-body treatment works for chronic pain. It’s not easy, but it’s basic nervous system biology - it works. So we can make it work for you. It’s normal to hit roadblocks in recovery. Choose to keep going.

You’re on the right path, you just have to go deeper.

Let’s take the next step.

Let’s work together.

Let’s get you out of pain.

What if you could actually feel well..?


Common Conditions


There’s a solution. Most presentations of the following chronic conditions are mind-body generated. And it’s possible to fully resolve chronic mind-body symptoms, even after years or decades of suffering. (List adapted from: Howard Schubiner MD)

✅ Back Pain

✅ Neck Pain

✅ Hip Pain

✅ Shoulder Pain

✅ Knee Pain

✅ Elbow Pain

✅ Pain from Disc Bulges

✅ Pain from Disc Degeneration

✅ Other Musculoskeletal Pain

✅ Sciatica

✅ Neuropathy

✅ Migraine

✅ Irritable Bowel Syndrome

✅ Pelvic Pain

✅ Interstitial Cystitis

✅ Fibromyalgia

✅ Many Eczema and Skin Conditions

✅ Many Arthritic Presentations

✅ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

✅ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

✅ Long Covid

✅ Depression

✅ Anxiety

✅ Other Medically Unexplained Chronic Pain

There are many mind-body symptoms and conditions. If you don't see your symptoms listed, that does not necessarily mean you're excluded. Please feel free to reach out and ask me about your specific situation.​

Contact Me

Sean Hershey LCSW Mind Body Medicine for Chronic Pain

You can take your healing deeper.

How it works:

1 - Complete this form to request a free phone consultation.

2 - We'll talk. Then you decide. If you want to move forward, we’ll get you scheduled for weekly therapy.

3 - From there, you won't have to journey alone anymore.​ You’ll be working with someone who understands chronic pain, can tune in to you, can help you with your specific barriers, and can help you finally heal.

My advice? Don’t let anything hold you back from taking the next step. Don’t add extra days of chronic pain to your one irreplaceable, invaluable life. It’s time.