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Physical & Manual Therapist Training

Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy: A Master Class for Body-Oriented Clinicians

level III - MASTERY TRAINING
Psychologically informed physical therapy is transforming physical medicine by integrating modern pain neuroscience, psychology, biomechanics, and sports performance. Yet, many forward-thinking, body-oriented clinicians still struggle to trust that a psychologically informed practice is within their scope and lack the skills to confidently progress their practice in this evidence-based direction.

Taught by Charlie Merrill, MSPT, this course provides clinicians, particularly physical therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and massage therapists, with the practical knowledge and skills to immediately apply to their chronic pain practices.

This 19-hour workshop, spread across six weeks, brings together cutting-edge research and advanced clinical interventions to train participants to:
  • Learn the science of and describe the role of the brain in primary pain.
  • Strengthen therapeutic alliance skills to improve connection, reduce burnout, and amplify treatment effectiveness.
  • Clinically differentiate primary symptoms from structural disorders to decide where each patient is on the continuum.
  • Discover the predictive processing model to understand the brain’s role in pain conditions.
  • Psychoeducate clearly and compassionately.
  • Collaborate on a unique treatment plan for each client to recover.
  • Strengthen PRT and psychologically informed skills while creatively incorporating them into manual therapy and movement practices.
  • Troubleshoot challenging cases by addressing barriers such as cognitive distortions, black-and-white thinking, fixed mindsets, pain attachment, extinction bursts, and symptom imperatives.
  • Put it all together and start innovating to treat the mind and body as intimately connected.
TX PT accreditation offers 19 CEUs to Physical Therapists across 35 states. Please visit our Continuing Education Credit page for further details.

  • 19 PT CEUs

    Awarded

  • 9 Hours

    Live Instruction

  • 10 Hours

    Video Instruction

  • Level III

    Learning

    A peek into the training:

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    The foundations covered in the on-demand materials.
    What IT OfferS

    What's included in this online course?

    6 Modules

    Covering symptom perception, predictive coding, nociception, conditioning, therapeutic alliance, whole-person evaluation, and more.

    Integrate PRT

    Creatively incorporate PRT and other psychologically informed skills into manual therapy and movement practices.

    Medical System Rewrite

    Challenge the biomedical model by integrating evidence-based, mind-body strategies to produce long-term healing for patients.

    What students are saying:

    This course has been life-changing. I would give it a 10/5. Thank you so much to Charlie.
    Sarah B, Chronic Pain coach
    This course was amazing on every level. I am so grateful for all of the careful work done to pull this together and Charlie's willingness and capacity to show up so fully. Thank you!
    Laura W, Physician
    Loved the entire course - just wish it wasn’t ending so soon! It is so valuable having this info as a PT trying to incorporate PRT into my practice.
    Andrea G, Physical Therapist