Empowered Relief

The Problem: Chronic pain is best treated with a 'whole-person' approach that include behavioral/psychological approaches to pain self-management. Effective behavioral pain treatments for typically involve 6-12 sessions and up to 24 hours of treatment time, making them costly, burdensome, and inaccessible or infeasible for the majority of the 100 million Americans living with ongoing pain.

The Solution: Empowered Relief^TM is a Stanford-owned innovation created by Beth Darnall, PhD. It is a single-session, 2-hour pain management class that rapidly equips attendees with effective pain relief skills. Four separate randomized controlled trials conducted at Stanford University confirm that Empowered Relief^TM is effective for managing a range of symptoms 3 and 6 months after receiving the single-session class. A recent NIH-funded randomized controlled trial confirmed that Empowered Relief^TM is non-inferior to 8-sessions (16 hours) of cognitive behavioral therapy 3 months posttreatment.

Since 2019, Beth Darnall has been delivering Empowered Relief^TM certification workshops to clinicians (300 certified instructors to date). Empowered Relief^TM is available in 6 languages and is being delivered in 12 countries.