Laura Rathbone Ba BSc MSc MACP

I am fascinated and dedicated to sharing the science and philosophy of pain with the aim of supporting more clinicians to work with an evidence-based whole-person approach.

 

I am a qualified Physiotherapist and Manual Therapist and work across multiple contexts and locations in Amsterdam. My work is pain-specialised, psychologically and trauma informed, and dedicated to supporting people who find themselves living in complex situations where healthcare requires a multi-modal and personalised approach:

• Kuria Hospice in Amsterdam to support their patients with palliative pain therapy/management

•  Specialised-CRPS clinic 2 days per week at Fysio Zuidereng (Amsterdam)  (referrals and self-referrals welcome)

• OLVG Oost pijn poli (dedicated physiotherapist supporting OLVG patients only - Contract in-negotiation and starting ASAP)

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I am a mutli-disciplinary clinical coach for medics, therapists and clinicians at early-phase specialisation in pain or who are specialised in pain and looking for on-going professional support and supervision.

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Several times a year I teach my own course "ACT in the Clinic" or with the NOI Group to teach GMI in dutch/English).

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I completed my MSc in Advanced Neuromusculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Kings' College, London where I explored the philosophy and complexity of pain more deeply.

 

I qualified as a Journalist before studying Physiotherapy and weave together skills and knowledge from both professions, alongside my further training in psychological approaches, to hold a wide practice for supporting with pain.

 

I am deeply interested in the role of literature, art, language, and communication in healthcare. I bring this interest and these skills to my podcast 'Philosophers Chatting with Clinicians' (available on spotify), my teaching and community of clinicians called The Clinical Coaching Pod, and I founded the international reading community 'Pain Geeks' which I now run with my business partner Christine Petrides.

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Publications

 

Kiverstein, J., Rathbone, L. and Thacker, M., 2021 WHY THERAPISTS NEED A PHILOSOPHY OF PAIN. Published on NOIjam: https://www.noigroup.com/noijam/why-therapists-need-a-philosophy-of-pain/

 

Speaking and Teaching

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2024 Coming up GMI with Noi Group

Amsterdam (Haarlem), Netherlands

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2024 Coming up ACT in the Clinic (2-day training) In-Person with NEXT Academy

Antwerp, Belgium

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2024: Coming up "Why do therapists need a philosophy on pain?" KeyNote Speaker invited by mehiläinen fysioterapia

Tampere, Finland

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2024: Coming up ACT in the Clinic 8hour intro with mehiläinen fysioterapia

Tampere, Finland

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2024 GMI with Noi Group

Amsterdam (Haarlem), Netherlands

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2023 ACT for Allied Health Therapists - 8hour course (aimed at therapists none psychology-trained therapists working with patients experiencing pain

The London Clinic

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2023 Guest lecture: Vrije Universiteit MSc Psychology

• Biopsychosocial model and beyond

• Education and psychotherapy for persistent pain

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2023 The Role of  the Humanities:  Exploring New and Classic Resources About Pain

The British Pain Society: The Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group

Annual Summer Retreat

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2023 Pain care is social justice work: Three years of Pain Geeks - where are we now?

The British Pain Society: The Philosophy and Ethics Special Interest Group

To attend this talk please email tilford.maureen@gmail.com

 

2023 Introduction to ACT for MSK physiotherapists

Kingscross Community Care Centre, Dundee

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2023 The beingness of pain

Lecture delivered to artists involved in There's a Pain in my Heart Project

 

2023 San Diego Pain Summit

Topic: 5e Predictive Processing: Pain and Practice

 

2022 Physiotherapy Back to the Future Conference

Groningen, Netherlands

Talk: Psych-informed Physiotherapy: past, present and future

 

2022 Guest lecture: Vrije Universiteit MSc Psychology

Pain and 3rd wave CBT

The Biopsychosocial model

 

2020 - present Returning Guest Lecturer at Nottingham University

Sessions: Pain Assessment and Pain Conditions such as CRPS, FMS and Neuropathic pain

 

2021 Guest lecture: Vrije Universiteit MSc Psychology

Pain and 3rd wave CBT

 

2021 Being Human With Pain

Department wide training

Tolbrug Revalidatie Centrum

A 15 hour tailored teaching combining philosophy, compassion and promoting self-directed learning to our patients

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2021 HAN International week: delivered on narrative approaches to therapy

 

2020 San Diego Pain Summit EAST

Topic: “So what about us? How Psychologically Flexible Are We?”

To be held as a virtual summit

 

2020 - 2022 ACT in the Clinic: 15 hour 4-part modular course for non- psychologists (virtual) every 2-3 months

 

2020 Guest lecture: Pain and 3rd wave CBT

Vrije Universiteit MSc Psychology

 

2020 Trust-Me Ed recorded workshop on ACT: Quick and Dirty

 

2020 Pain Toolkit Webinar: ACT and pain

 

2020 HAN Mini Symposium: delivered on privilege and discomfort

 

2020 HAN International week: delivered on narrative approaches to therapy

 

2019 An intro to ACT delivered to Multidisciplinary team at Novadic- Kentron, specialised in working with pain related addiction

 

2019 Integrating Therapeutic Education with ACT delivered to the multi- disciplinary team at Tolbrug Revalidatie Centrum

 

2019 Pain series of two workshops co-delivered to the students of the Leiden Hogeschool

 

2019 Guest Lecture: Psychosocial aspects of persistent neck and back pain. Vrije Universiteit MSc Psychology

 

2018 Pain series of two workshops co-delivered to the students of the Leiden Hogeschool

 

UK and NHS in-service training delivered on:

• Placebo and Nocebo effect in practice

• Post-Polio Pain Management

• ACT in Physiotherapy 

• BPS assessment of complex cases

• Mindfulness as an adjunct to MSK Physiotherapy

• CRPS an update: Physiology and Physiotherapy

• Manual techniques for the lower back (King’s College University, 2nd year BSc students)