About Us

Christie Uipi, LCSW

Christie Uipi is a psychotherapist based in Los Angeles, California specializing in the treatment of chronic pain, anxiety, and depression. She pursued extensive clinical training at the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, where she worked alongside Alan Gordon to develop Pain Reprocessing Therapy. Christie's approach to treating chronic pain is based in neuroscience and rooted in compassion, working to empower her patients with accurate pain education and effective mindfulness-based and cognitive-behavioral techniques.

She lectures nationally on psychotherapeutic interventions to treat chronic pain and is committed to cross-disciplinary collaboration between mental health and physical medicine. Christie is also a recovered chronic pain patient herself. The healing process was so profoundly transformational for the quality of her life that she has dedicated her career to supporting others through their recoveries. She hosts the Like Mind, Like Body podcast on Curable and serves as a Board Member of the Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms (ATNS), a nonprofit advancing neuroplasticity pain education, research, and access to effective treatment.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Level 2, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Problem-Solving Therapy.

Bernice Hurtado, LCSW

Bernice Hurtado is a psychotherapist and pain coach based in Riverside, California. Her clinical focus centers on supporting clients with neural circuit disorders as they break free from the Symptom-Fear Cycle. Bernice helps clients deepen their understanding of their reaction to their symptoms, themselves, and the world around them using a mix of cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based approaches.

Bernice also has experience treating adolescents struggling with eating disorders, women navigating the transition to parenthood and/or experiencing perinatal mood disorders, and adults diagnosed with life-altering chronic illness. Bernice believes in the healing power of the alliance between client and practitioner, and relates to her clients with patience, compassion, and trust in their ability to create positive change.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eating Disorders, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Patient Empowerment with a Chronic Illness.

Rachel Mooers, LMFT

Rachel Mooers is a psychotherapist and pain coach based in Las Vegas, Nevada who specializes in the treatment of mindbody pain, anxiety, depression and trauma. She earned her masters degree in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and has received extensive training in Pain Reprocessing Therapy under Christie Uipi and Howard Schubiner.

Rachel believes that every person is born with an innate capacity to heal, and integrates neuroscience, somatics and attachment frameworks to support her clients towards their goals for holistic wellbeing. She enjoys sharing effective, powerful breathing techniques that enhance health and regulate the nervous system.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), Parts and Memory Therapy (PMT), and Trauma Recovery Yoga (TRY).

Alyssa Heskin, LCSW

Alyssa Heskin is a psychotherapist and pain coach based in Roseville, California. Alyssa believes that every client deserves a space in which they feel safe, empowered, and in control of their healing. She takes a psychodynamic, strength-focused, and mindfulness-based approach and utilizes evidence-based practices from Pain Reprocessing Therapy. Alyssa works collaboratively with clients to identify their maladaptive thinking patterns and behaviors and replace them with effective strategies to alleviate emotional and physical pain.

Alyssa was first introduced to concepts of neuroplasticity and somatic healing while supporting a family member through their chronic pain recovery. This personal experience sparked an awe for the healing capacity of our brains and bodies, leading Alyssa to develop her professional niche in chronic pain recovery. Alyssa also specializes in working with survivors of trauma and people experiencing severe mental illness.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Al Anthis, LCSW

Al Anthis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and pain coach based in San Diego, California. Drawing from their lived experience as a trans masc person and a recovered chronic pain patient, Al understands how exhausting and isolating it can feel to live in constant discomfort and to feel disconnected from your own body. They also know how transformative it is to rebuild safety, trust, and compassion within yourself, and they are passionate about helping others reach this place of relief and ease.

Al approaches therapy without a one-size-fits-all mindset. They meet each client exactly where they are, using a trauma-informed lens and offering empathetic, personalized, and evidence-based care. Al has extensive experience supporting neurodivergent clients, as well as queer and trans individuals navigating identity, embodiment, and persistent physical or emotional distress. Above all, Al believes that everyone deserves to feel safe and at home in their body, and supported in their growth.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).

Brianna Barba, LCSW

Brianna is a psychotherapist and pain coach based in Los Angeles, California. Brianna's personal healing experiences related to trauma and chronic pain help to shape her ever-growing passion for guiding clients to discover their best and most favorite selves. She understands the power that comes with rewriting the narrative around one's own story and one's own body, and supports her clients as they develop an empowered and hopeful stance towards their healing.

Brianna also helps her clients increase connection to themselves and others by integrating body consciousness and building awareness of their unique internal needs. In Brianna's trauma-informed approach to psychotherapy, she utilizes elements of attachment theory, polyvagal theory, cultural responsiveness, and decolonization. Brianna also has experience treating individuals with co-occurring disorders such as depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Freedom Techniques (Tapping), and Motivational Interviewing (MI).

Torran Kitts, LMHC-A

Torran is a psychotherapist and pain coach based in Seattle, Washington, offering a safe, genuine relationship to support clients in their chronic symptom recovery. He nerds out hardest over Pain Reprocessing Therapy while drawing from an eclectic background to support clients' holistic needs, including dialectical behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and polyvagal, psychodynamic, and attachment theories.

Torran strongly believes in clients' abilities to build a new relationship to their bodies and minds built on trust, ease, and compassion. Torran's personal experience recovering from chronic symptoms was radically lifechanging, and he takes great joy in sharing the gift of hope and freedom he was given with others.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (Advanced Application).

Alexandra Ndegwa Rennebohm, LCSW

Alexandra Ndegwa Rennebohm is a psychotherapist and pain coach practicing in Seattle, Washington. Through her diverse clinical experience, Alexandra has observed the ways in which pain symptoms particularly impact communities of color, educators and other human service professionals, and those impacted by trauma and attachment histories.

A vital part of her practice centers around identifying and exploring how environmental factors (systemic oppression, chronic stress, racism, sexism) interact with our identities, processing the impact of these triggers on the mindbody connection and creating pathways for healing. Alexandra cares deeply about providing an affirming therapeutic space for folks from the global majority and those with intersectional identities. She takes a relationship-based approach to healing and utilizes psychodynamic, trauma-informed, and cognitive behavioral techniques.

Trained in: Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

Paul Uipi

With an eclectic background in accounting, customer care, and people management, Paul has worn many hats over the course of his career. Paul supports our team of talented clinicians through his experience and expertise in developing business infrastructure and improving operational efficiency.

He is an integral part of executing the vision for The Better Mind Center, and he brings a high level of creativity and enthusiasm to the group.