Long covid support
Long covid,
fatigue and pain
Support for people with long covid-related pain, fatigue, dizziness, or persistent symptoms where medical assessment has ruled out active disease, infection, or urgent causes.
Persistent symptoms
When the body still feels under threat
Long covid can be complex, and symptoms should be taken seriously. For some people, the nervous system may remain sensitised after illness, continuing to produce fatigue, pain, dizziness, breathlessness sensations, or other protective signals after the immediate infection has passed.
This does not mean symptoms are imagined. It means the brain and body may still be operating as if danger is present. Brain-body recovery work may help some people build safety, reduce fear, and gently expand capacity.
Careful support
Support without pushing through
Long covid support should not force exercise or dismiss post-exertional symptom flares. The work starts with understanding your symptoms, concerns, and the ways your nervous system responds to exertion, rest, stress, and sensation.
For suitable clients, sessions may include nervous system education, somatic tracking, calming threat responses, working with fear of symptoms, and supporting confidence in daily activity.
Brain-body connection
A respectful view of real symptoms
People with long covid are often told either that everything is physical or that everything is anxiety. A biopsychosocial approach is more nuanced. It recognises that physiology, stress, immune activation, sleep, emotion, movement, and learned danger signals can all affect symptoms.
The goal is to help the system feel safer, not to blame you for being unwell. This work may sit alongside medical care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or other support.
Signs to explore
When neuroplastic patterns may be involved
These signs do not prove anything by themselves, but they can make brain-body support worth considering.
Symptoms fluctuate
Pain, fatigue, dizziness, or other symptoms vary with stress, sleep, environment, exertion, or emotional load.
Tests do not explain severity
Medical assessment has not found an active disease process that fully explains the intensity or persistence of symptoms.
Fear narrows life
Avoidance, monitoring, and fear of flares have made your world smaller, even when you want to do more.
Symptoms overlap
Long covid symptoms appear alongside migraine, IBS, widespread pain, anxiety, sleep disruption, or other sensitised-system patterns.
Before you begin
Your next step
If you have questions about long covid-related symptoms and this approach, get in touch to discuss whether a first conversation may be useful.
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