Pain Relief Movement Specialist

Mags draws on her extensive knowledge of the body through dance, psychology and non-verbal communication to empower people to move with confidence and resolve chronic pain. She is one of the four Editors of Psychophysiologic Disorders Medical textbook, published November 2019. Mags offers one-to-one Resolving Chronic Pain consultations and Body Control Pilates classes, as well as taking part in chronic pain research and giving guest talks and lectures on chronic pain. Mags lectures on University Edinburgh Dance Science Masters course.

Mags is a History, Movement and Theatre Studies Graduate, and is a qualified teacher and university lecturer. She taught dance, movement, psychology and communication studies, before training in Body Mind Centering and Body Control Pilates. She is a Qualified Back4Good Practitioner, Stress Illness Recovery Practitioner and a Whole Health Medicine Institute graduate.

Mags has presented internationally and to a wide variety of delegates. Here are the details of a selection of those presentations: The Royal Society of Medicine in London (April 2015), to faculty members in Columbia University Psychosomatics Department (2016), to Chronic Pain Ireland (2016), and to The Irish Pain Society ASM (2017, 2018, 2019). Mags has also presented to The Irish Law Society on Stress Illness (2023) to Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, SEPI (Vancouver, 2023) Whole Health Medicine (San Francisco, 2024) and will be presenting to The Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms, ATNS in September (Boulder, Colorado 2025) Please see Events for more details. Mags, worked closely with David Clarke MD the textbook lead editor along with other editors Howard Schubiner MD and Alan Abbass MD. She wrote a chapter about her work and was lead author of the History chapter. The textbook Psychophysiologic Disorders presents evidence to challenge beliefs about the cause and treatment methods of chronic and persistent pain.

Appointments: You can book individual consultations to begin resolving your chronic pain, and understanding neuroplastic symptoms. More details.

Classes: Invite Mags to teach a class or workshop. Mags teaches classes by invitation to chronic pain interest groups, as part of Human Resources in Business, Universities and other special interest groups. Read more.

Seminars: You are very welcome to attend an introductory talk about this approach: please see Events.

Mags has more than twenty years experience teaching and treating pain. Read more about her experience and qualifications.