Helping women with chronic pelvic pain rebuild strength, safety, & confidence so they live fully again.

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Jessica Hetherington, The Pelvic Pain Mentor

Hi, I’m Jessica

For years, I lived in a cycle of pelvic pain that no one could explain. Despite specialist treatments, medications, acupuncture, chiropractic work, stretching, and invasive pelvic physical therapy, none of it changed the outcome. I was told “You’ll just have to manage it.”

Every provider I worked with was genuinely well-meaning. Looking back, I can see that there simply wasn’t enough time in a typical visit to explore the full picture of chronic pain including nervous system patterns, emotional stress, movement habits, beliefs about the body and lived experience.

So I created what didn’t exist. I immersed myself in pain science, studied how the body actually heals, and built my own system to fill the gap that was missing in my care. What finally changed everything was learning two things at the same time:

✓ Retraining my brain using pain reprocessing principles to stop treating my pain and other symptoms as a threat.

✓ Moving in ways that supported my pelvic floor and taught my body that it was safe.

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Conditions I work with…

✓ Hypertonic pelvic floor

✓ Vaginismus/vulvadynia

✓ Migraines

✓ Incontinence

✓ Low back/tailbone pain/SI joint dysfunction

✓ Prolapse

✓ Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain/urgency

✓ Any kind of unexplained pelvic pain

Who I Work With

Most people I work with have complex pain

Meaning… Your symptoms may move around. They may flare with stress, emotion, or certain movements. They may come and go without a clear structural explanation.

Some clients experience intermittent pain. Others live with daily, unrelenting pain (mine was!)

This kind of pain is confusing, frustrating, and isolating. And it often leaves you feeling like a medical mystery that no one quite knows what to do with.

You’ve Already Tried Everything.

By the time we work together, you’ve usually already seen specialists, you’ve been to physical therapy, you’ve rested, you’ve changed your diet, you’ve followed protocols. And if relief has come at all, it’s likely been partial, temporary, or inconsistent. You’re tired of being the “special case.” Tired of chasing symptoms. Tired of being told nothing is wrong, while still living in pain.

My work isn’t a replacement for medical care but rather designed to work alongside it when appropriate.

A Different Approach

Instead of only chasing symptoms, my work addresses both side of persistent pain & symptoms: the protective patterns of the nervous system; and the physical patterns held in the body

Together, we stop obsessing over the pain itself and begin rewiring the conditions that keep it alive, restoring safety, stability, and trust inside your body.

This is where true, lasting relief becomes possible.

Jessica Hetherington, The Pelvic Pain Mentor

My Credentials

B.s.exercise science | Pain reproccessing theory Practioner | certified Co-active coach | NASM-CPT | REstore your core PRACTItiONER

My work is informed by years of training in pain science, biomechanics, and subconscious pattern work, integrating how the body moves, how the nervous system protects, and how the subconscious reinforces pain patterns.

  • We work on nervous system dysregulation and movement patterns that have been driving persistent pain.

    This allows us to resolve what’s keeping pain alive, rather than simply managing it.

    Most importantly, I bring lived experience. Chronic pelvic pain stole years of my life.

    Together we address how nervous system responses and movement patterns contribute to persistent pain and retrain the body toward lasting relief.

A few things you should know about pain & healing…

Jessica Hetherington, The Pelvic Pain Mentor

Rest alone doesn’t fix pain.

Avoiding movement can actually reinforce pain. The nervous system (and your bones, joints, muscles) learn safety through appropriate movement, not through fear based stillness.

  • When the brain stays in protection mode for too long, it can continue to produce pain signals — even when the body is no longer injured.

    This is called neuroplastic pain.
    It is real pain, created by a nervous system that has learned to stay on high alert.

    And because it is learned, it can be unlearned.

Jessica Hetherington, The Pelvic Pain Mentor

What Chronic Pain Actually is.

Chronic symptoms do not always mean there is a tissue, structural, or joint problem. Many people develop pain after an injury that has already healed. Others experience symptoms with no clear physical cause at all.

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When the brain no longer perceives danger, the body no longer needs pain as protection.

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Emotions & Pain are connected

The brain processes emotional threat and physical threat the same way. Long term stress can keep the body in a state of protection, wich can show up as chronic pain .

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You don't have to figure this out on your own.

Whether you're newly diagnosed, years into your journey, or somewhere in between , if pelvic pain/chronic symptoms are running your life, let's change that. Get in touch and let's chat.