How does it Work?
Addictions
Anyone affected by addiction may benefit from Neurofeedback. Addiction is a disease of the brain. As neurofeedback helps retrain the brain to be calmer, to manage painful memories, to focus and concentrate, and engage with others, it subsequently helps people with addictions to resist cravings.
For anyone suffering, neurofeedback is a promising therapy. With more attention and more research time and money devoted to it, we are beginning to see more people healed with this innovative technique.
Trauma
Brains that are formed during trauma experiences often prioritize safety and are quite hyper-vigilant. This makes relationships and basic life functions more difficult. Maintaining a feeling of safety and calm is one of the many benefits of Neurofeedback. Individuals who have experienced trauma report some of the most dramatic testimonials after Neurofeedback.
Sleep Disorders
With our modern lifestyle, many people are sleep deprived. Neurofeedback has been shown to significantly reduce insomnia – meaning difficulty falling asleep or falling back to sleep during the night. Neurofeedback promotes Physical calming which helps people relax and fall asleep. Neurofeedback calms physical restlessness and muscle tension including teeth grinding (bruxism). It also calms anxiety-related nightmares or vivid dreams during sleep. When starting neurofeedback, people often report an increase in dreaming. Neurofeedback can allow a rebound of dreaming that settles down again within a few sessions. As sleep becomes more organized with training, dreaming also occurs later in the sleep cycle and is more likely to be remembered on awakening.
Physical Instabilities
including Migraine Headaches
Symptoms of instability are recognized by their sudden onset and predictable course. Migraines, for example, might begin with a characteristic aura and then progress to head pain and nausea in a familiar sequence with each event. These symptoms are explosive, and typically quite disabling. They are very different from chronic symptoms related to high arousal.
With neurofeedback we address instabilities most effectively with left-right temporal lobe placements (T3-T4). This gives the most stabilizing effect across the whole brain. It also addresses the particular vulnerability of the temporal lobes to hyper-excitability and resulting symptoms of instability.
Anxiety/Depression
Anxiety is among the worst experiences a human can have. It just feels bad in your body and soul. With the global pandemic we have seen a sharp spike in anxiety and depression, and we are thankful to offer the community another tool for support.
Digestive Issues
Many of our patients report some type of irregularity in their digestive system. Because the brain controls the digestive system, neurofeedback significantly improves digestion.
PTSD
Neurofeedback treatment is helping individuals find peace from the noise within. Results vary from person to person. An average of 20 sessions are optimal to adequately assess results.
ADHD
While medication and behavioral interventions can do a good job treating the symptoms of ADD or ADHD, neurofeedback retrains the brain to regain better control and focus. Clients who train with Neurofeedback report significant improvements in focus, alertness, calm and attention.
Other Conditions
Depression, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, and Eating Disorders & Sugar Cravings
Dread / Fear / Anger / Hopelessness / Sadness
Neurofeedback has been shown to have a profound affect on calming emotional reactivity and enhancing empathy. It reduces aggressive behavior, rages, paranoia and hyper-vigilance. All of these behaviors reflect a natural attempt to defend ourselves and stay alive in a dangerous world. Our need to matter, be loved and be safe take precedent in our brains and neurofeedback can help brains to reduce presumed threats and dangers in our environments as well as in our relationships. It can also reduce thrill-seeking behaviors – another attempt to achieve some reward by those who lack feelings of positive reward from normal life activities.