Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback is a peaceful form of biofeedback offered to your brain through your senses, usually your eyes, ears, or touch. It uses your brain’s natural abilities to learn in order to help it function more efficiently. 

Neurofeedback has been used successfully to help people with a wide variety of problems, including: depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, addictions, PTSD, trauma, emotional dysregulation, serious behavior issues, pain, migraines, sleep issues, epilepsy, and brain damage from head injuries.

Many people chose to use neurofeedback because it is gentle and, unlike talk therapy, you don't have to talk as much about events or feelings. Neurofeedback is also ideal for children and adolescents, who often make much better progress with neurofeedback than with talk therapy.

Neurofeedback is non-invasive, meaning that it introduces nothing electrical or physical into your brain. It is painless and involves no surgery or medications. Neurofeedback is a typically a very mild, easy process, with minimal potential side effects.

Curiously, as client, you don't consciously do anything other than enjoy the feedback. The feedback is usually presented within a movie or game. The movie might stop or a spaceship might move faster, but you don't have to do anything besides pay attention.

Your brain is already an expert at shifting to meet current needs. It will decide how to use the data presented in the feedback for its own benefit. The goal is for your brain to learn how to move closer to optimal performance.

I offer several forms of neurofeedback.

Passive Infrared Hemoencephalography (pirHEG) is a neurofeedback technology with very low risks and high potential gains. A set of infrared sensors measure the excess heat expelled through the front of your head. The goal of pirHEG is to train the brain to prioritize brain activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is the executive functioning area located behind your forehead. The prefrontal cortex is often in competition with the emotional areas of the brain. PirHEG neurofeedback can bring balance and calm to your system by moderating overly reactive emotional responses .

Othmer infralow frequency neurofeedback (ILF) is a form of EEG neurofeedback that measures your brain's subtle electrical activity. ILF neurofeedback uses technology very similar to an electroencephalogram, or EEG. With ILF, like many forms of EEG neurofeedback, your brain is allowed to see its behavior and use that data to change its behavior.

Alpha-Theta neurofeedback is a form of EEG neurofeedback that can help process and resolve trauma and PTSD. Alpha-Theta allows you to deal with intense past emotional content subconsciously, without reliving the experience or risking re-traumatization. When your brain is ready for this method, it can be a very relaxing, refreshing, and transformative process.

Synchrony neurofeedback is a type of EEG neurofeedback that can help us achieve a mental state of calm focus. Many report that synchrony neurofeedback allows you to achieve a mindful or and meditative state more easily than with other approaches.

Are you wondering if neurofeedback could be helpful for you or a loved one? Please contact me. We’ll talk about what’s going on in your life and whether neurofeedback is likely to help.

Blog Posts About Neurofeedback

  • Video: Overview of EEG Neurofeedback
    By training the brain with EEG (electroencephalograph) neurofeedback, we can improve mood, behavior, and performance of the brain. Many varieties of neurofeedback can also help difficult issues, such as trauma and obsessions. I've studied neurofeedback with Mike Cohen, a gifted ...continue reading
  • Video: Chronic pain and EEG Neurofeedback
    If you're experiencing chronic pain, you already know how terribly debilitating it can be. This video shows how one person gets relief from severe chronic pain with Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback. Many forms of neurofeedback are also effective for migraines and ...continue reading
  • Video: Neurofeedback for ADHD and ADD
    Individuals with ADHD/ADD often perform poorly in school and in the workplace, even though they may be highly intelligent and creative. These attention issues are often inherited, with the condition appearing in multiple generations of the family. The most common treatment for ADHD/ADD is medication, but when the medications are stopped, the condition returns. Neurofeedback can be a highly effective alternative because it allows the areas of the brain that control arousal and focus to learn how to self-regulate. Unlike medication, the effects of neurofeedback training are often lasting....
  • Video: Neurofeedback for veterans affected by PTSD
    Military personal sometimes develop symptoms of PTSD as a result of experiencing trauma. This may include experiences such as battle, assault, military sexual trauma, on-the-job injuries, or traffic accidents. Often there have been often multiple traumatic incidents in the service, ...continue reading
  • Video: Neurofeedback for Peak Performance
    Neurofeedback is used by athletes, executives, students, artists, and people like you to get into "the zone" or a state of flow so they can excel at what they care about most. In this video, a financial planner describes how ...continue reading
  • Video: How Does EEG Neurofeedback Help With Migraines?
    This video by EEG Info provides a brief introduction to what neurofeedback is and how it can help you. One of EEG Info's clients, who suffered from severe migraines, describes how neurofeedback has helped her feel better and function at ...continue reading
  • Video: Neurofeedback for Children with Autism
    This video shows how several children and their families have responded to Infra-Low Frequency Neurofeedback, a variety of EEG neurofeedback developed by Susan and Siegfried Othmer at EEGInfo. Other forms of neurofeedback, such as pirHEG neurofeedback, can also help with ...continue reading